Theodor colliery
| Theodor colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
 1934: Theodor colliery at a depth of 20 m |
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| Funding / year | up to approx. 420,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | until approx. 1100 | ||
| Start of operation | 1933 | ||
| End of operation | 1968 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '23 " N , 7 ° 5' 54" E | ||
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| Location | Overturn | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Theodor was a coal - mine in Essen .
history
In 1929, the Heinrich trade union took over several mine holdings from Adler-Bergbau AG's holdings , including the closed coal mines United Charlotte and Steingatt . In both fields , successor mining had already been carried out on a lease basis by smaller companies since the closure. From 1927 it was intended to restitute the mine under the name Charlotte-Prinz Wilhelm-Steingatt . Adler AG's liquidity problems and the subsequent global economic crisis brought these plans to a standstill.
From 1933 it was decided to restart the mines with complete technical renewal. The Charlotte IV shaft in the immediate vicinity of the old Charlotte tunnel hole in Altendorf (Ruhr) (today the Burgaltendorf district of the city of Essen) was newly sunk and expanded . Next to him, the new Theodor shaft was sunk from 1934 to 1936, after which the colliery was henceforth called Zeche Theodor (after the pit board chairman of Heinrich-Bergbau AG, Theodor Mauritz, retired government assessor).
The daytime facilities were adapted in a characteristic way to the location of the old Charlotte mine on a mountain slope. The old main tunnel sole was used as a hanging lawn bench . At the height of the tunnel mouth holes , the processing and the colliery building were built. Above this area, the two hoisting machines were housed in cubic brick buildings above the shafts . The colliery site was thus on two floors. The colliery started mining in 1936. A briquette factory was built.
From 1941 to 1943, shaft 3 was sunk in the Steingatt field area, which took over the cable car and ventilation for this part of the field.
The production reached 420,000 t of anthracite coal annually with 1,100 employees.
After the Second World War , the Theodor colliery was assigned the northern construction site of the former Eiberg colliery owned by the Heinrich-Bergbau union (from 1952 Heinrich-Bergbau AG) for further exploration. In this field, the Eiberg shaft was sunk from 1951 to 1955 as an outer shaft for cable travel and material feed.
As early as 1874, the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft connected the previous coal mine to the Middle Ruhr Valley Railway for the purpose of transporting coal. The railway line ran from Kupferdreh to Überruhr , past the colliery to Altendorf (Ruhr) station , and on over the Dahlhausen railway bridge to Dahlhausen . In the meantime, the Theodor colliery also had a person stopping point (ZTH) for the commuting miners. The siding remained for the occasional freight traffic until the colliery was closed in 1968.
Shutdown
With the onset of the coal crisis , Heinrich-Bergbau AG decided to merge the two mining pits Heinrich and Theodor. This was carried out in 1964; the main funding was funded on Heinrich 1/2/3. Schacht Theodor took on intermediate funding tasks.
Due to the worsening sales situation at the end of the 1960s and the decommissioning of conveyor systems subsidized by the Rationalisierungsverband, production on both pits was stopped on April 1, 1968. The shafts were filled .
Current condition
At the entrance to the Charlottenberg, the carrier buildings are still there. There is currently a beverage wholesaler in them. The buildings on the main site have been completely demolished. The renaturation of the colliery site was completed in early 2011. The tunnel opening of the main Charlotte tunnel can no longer be seen.
literature
- Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. Past and future of a key technology. With a catalog of the "life stories" of 477 mines. (= The Blue Books ). 6th edition, expanded to include an excursus according to p. 216 and updated in parts relating to energy policy. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein i. Ts. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 (after the 5th, completely revised and expanded edition 2003, post-processing 2002: Christiane Syré, final editing 2007 Hans-Curt Köster).