United Adolar Colliery
| United Adolar Colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 12-42 | ||
| Start of operation | 1847 | ||
| End of operation | 1909 | ||
| Successor use | Glückauf Barmen colliery | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 22 '13.6 " N , 7 ° 16' 46.6" E | ||
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| Location | Hiddinghausen | ||
| local community | Sprockhövel | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The United Adolar colliery in the Sprockhövel district of Hiddinghausen is a former hard coal mine . The colliery was located in the Schlagebach valley east of the Pleßbach .
history
The first years
On May 15, 1847, a square was awarded. Following the award , the mine was put into operation. Initially, tunnel construction was carried out with several tunnels . The mine was later given deadlines , the exact time is not given. From 1898 the mine was put into operation again. A barrel-length shaft was sunk . The shaft was sunk into the main Adolar seam . At a shallow depth of 20 meters, the first was the sole attached. The drainage of the pit water was carried out through a valley floor, which was 30 meters below the shaft. Promotion began in the same year . In 1899, a weather bed was set in the shaft at a depth of 11 meters . In addition, the sinking work for a weather shaft began this year. The air shaft was at a distance of 400 meters from the production well recognized . In 1901, the tonnage shaft reached a shallow depth of 175 meters, at a shallow depth of 170 meters, a foundation excavation was put in place. The deeper depth of the underground excavation was 84 meters, so it was +86 meters above sea level .
The other years
In 1903 the mine workings drowned . On December 16 of the same year a steam water tank was set up. From January 1, 1904, the promotion was stopped. Swamping began on August 21, 1905, and mining was resumed on December 1 of the same year. In 1906 work began on digging another shaft. The shaft was created as a barrel-length shaft and was named shaft 2. In addition, the pit field of the Schwan colliery was acquired. In 1907, shaft 2 reached place 10. A narrow-gauge railway was built to transport the coal to the Hiddinghausen station. In the same year the two dormant mines Sunderbank and Vereinigte Verborgenglück were acquired. In 1908 a cut was made from place 10 to the depth of the pit, the depth of the pit was at a shallow depth of 150 meters. In the seam water bank, a hew was created from location 10 up to above days. In addition, the Harmonie colliery was acquired this year . In 1909, work began on sinking the Rudolf pit. In the same year, the ton-long shaft 2 reached a shallow depth of 300 meters. Those entitled now included the square fields Ellypse, Minna, Scheideweg, Schwan, Vereinigte Verborgenenglück and Adolar, as well as other length fields not mentioned by name . The mine field thus had an area of eight square kilometers. From May 25 to November 27, 1909, there was consolidation with the Glückauf Barmen colliery . With the construction of the Bossel – Blankenstein small railway , the colliery was given a standard-gauge siding in 1910, on which works passenger traffic was also carried out from 23 August 1912. At the same time, the narrow-gauge railway to Hiddinghausen station was shut down.
Promotion and workforce
The first known production and workforce figures come from the year 1898, at that time 12 miners were employed at the mine, who produced around 400 tons of hard coal . In 1900, 42 miners extracted 9,384 tons of hard coal. The last known production and workforce figures for the mine are from 1905, in that year 122 tons of hard coal were extracted with four miners.
What is left
Two buildings of the daytime facilities of the United Adolar colliery are still preserved, and the route of the siding of the small railroad is still clearly visible.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum 144). 3rd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
- ^ Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations. Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen 1957.
- ↑ 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. 397 .
- ^ The early mining of the Ruhr: Zeche Adolar / Vereinigte Adolar (last accessed on October 29, 2012).
Web links
- Early mining on the Ruhr: siding of the Ver colliery. Adolar (last accessed October 29, 2012)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: factory building of the Ver colliery. Adolar (last accessed October 29, 2012)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: historical map around 1840 (last accessed on October 29, 2012)
- Early mining in the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (last accessed on October 29, 2012)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: map of the area (last accessed on October 29, 2012)