Siebenplaneten colliery
| Siebenplaneten colliery | |||
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| Start of operation | 1875 | ||
| End of operation | 1955 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '58 " N , 7 ° 20' 23" E | ||
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| Location | Langendreer | ||
| local community | Bochum | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Bochum | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Siebenplaneten colliery was a hard coal mine in the Langendreer district of Bochum .
Mining history
The history of the colliery goes back to the Siebenplaneten Erbstolln colliery from 1733 and was named after the Pleiades from Greek mythology: The seven daughters of Atlas were created by Zeus to protect them from the hunter Orion as a constellation in the sky offset. With the Erbstollen traversed coal and Eisensteinflöze were examined and the union awarded .
In 1857 the Authorized Seven Planets, Seven Planets Erbstollen, Seven Planets Continuation, Friedrich, Somborn and the Eisenstein Fields were merged to form Seven Planets .
In 1870 the sinking of a shaft began in Somborn . This shaft was named Eduard and in the same year reached the Carboniferous seven meters deep . This shaft broke in the same year . In 1871 the shaft was opened up and further sunk. It finally went into operation in 1875. The second Mathilde shaft was sunk in 1891. The colliery railway was connected to the Marten - Langendreer line of the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft (BME) in 1876 . In 1877 the connecting line to Langendreer station, operated jointly by the BME and RhE, was added. From 1879 to 1924, a coking plant was operated on mine shaft 1/2 .
In 1929 the neighboring Constanze colliery was taken over. In 1944 it was taken over by the Neu-Iserlohn colliery . In 1955 the promotion was stopped. The shafts of the colliery last served as weather shafts and were filled in 1957 , the daytime facilities demolished.
The Siebenplaneten-Straße in the village of Somborn (Dortmund / Bochum / Witten city limits) shows the previous location of the demolished mine. On the Oberstraße, at the corner of Siebenplanetenstraße, the “Siebenplaneten” stop reminds you of the former colliery.
Web links
- City of Bochum, Zeche Siebenplaneten , accessed on December 3, 2018
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 , accessed on December 3, 2018
source
- Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning until 1997 , Bochum 1998
- Hermann, Die alten Zechen an der Ruhr , p. 149
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Knospe: Works Railways in German Coal Mining and Its Steam Locomotives, Part 1 - Data, facts, sources . 1st edition. Self-published, Heiligenhaus 2018, ISBN 978-3-9819784-0-7 , p. 670 .