Sunday child colliery
| Sunday child colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| End of operation | 1920s | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Brown coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 13 '33 " N , 7 ° 3' 38" E | ||
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| Location | Vohwinkel | ||
| local community | Wuppertal | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Wuppertal | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Sonntagskind colliery (also known as the Sonntagskind mine ) is a former lignite mine in what is now the Wuppertal district of Vohwinkel .
Until the 1920s, lignite is said to have been mined in the colliery . The lignite from Vohwinkel was primarily burned in the operation of steam boilers , and in some cases it was also processed into briquettes . In the post-war period (1945/48), residents are said to have supplied themselves with lignite from the mine.
The colliery was located on the Vohwinkeler Strasse 99 site , which is now Ferd. owned by Hagen Söhne & Koch GmbH & Co. KG (HAKO). The colliery area extended to Ludwig-Richter-Strasse (then under the name Kurfürstenstrasse ) and today's Haaner Strasse . The system consisted of three levels , which were reached through a 60 meter long, diagonally driven tunnel . A nacelle which were tram pulled from the tunnel. The company HAKO is in possession of a site plan of the plant. Only one photo is known from 1926, which shows the abandoned tunnel entrance .
The lignite store is 500 m long and 50 m wide. The thickness fluctuates and locally reaches 50 m.
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Voigt: Back then in Wuppertal . Wuppertal 1988
- ^ Wilfried Heimes : The beginnings of the district Sonnborn in the Bergisches Land and their development, 1961
- Remarks
- ↑ Heimes calls the mine "Grube".