United Catharina colliery

United Catharina colliery
	General information about the mine
other names	Zeche Vereinigte Catharine ; Zeche Vereinigte Catharine & Geitling ; Zeche Vereinigte Catharina & Geitling
Mining technology	Underground mining
Funding / year	Max. 43,941 t
	Information about the mining company
Employees	Max. 221
Start of operation	1811
End of operation	1917
Successor use	Mülheimerglück ; colliery Catharina colliery
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 25 '0.6 " N , 7 ° 6' 32" E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '0.6 " N , 7 ° 6' 32" E
	Location United Catharina colliery
Location	Überruhr and Burgaltendorf
local community	eat
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	eat
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The United Catharina colliery is a former hard coal mine in Essen-Burgaltendorf . The mine was also known as the Zeche Vereinigte Catharine and until 1815 as the Zeche Vereinigte Catharine & Geitling or the Zeche Vereinigte Catharina & Geitling . The mine was shut down three times in its more than 100-year history and then started up again.

history

The beginnings

In 1811 the mine was created from the union of a part of the entitled Geitling and Catharina . In the same year, dismantling was carried out in daytime operations 1 and 2. The mine was in operation until 1816, after which it is no longer mentioned in the mining authority files until 1831 . On February 1, 1831, the partial consolidation to the United Himmelsfürster Erbstollen colliery took place . In the years 1837 to 1841 hardly any mining activities, at times the mine was kept within a certain time limit. In 1842 prospecting and exploration work was carried out, after which the mine was closed for the first time.

The further operation

In 1903 a new exploration took place from the Altendorf-Tiefbau colliery. In the same year, operations started again under the name Zeche Catharina. In 1908 the Catharina, Große Varstbank and Vereinigte Himmelsfürster Erbstollen collieries were consolidated again above the sole of the Erbstollen to form the Vereinigte Catharina colliery. The mine has two tonnage shafts in operation. One shaft had a deeper depth of 46 meters (85 meters shallow), the other had a deeper depth of 62 meters (112 meters shallow). In addition, several days of the day had been created. The weather bed was at a depth of 46 meters, the second building floor was 62 meters. In 1909 the construction site had a striking area of 1250 meters and crosscutting 1000 meters. In 1910 there was heavy water inflow and subsidence of the discharge bed. For this reason, it was shut down again this year.

The last few years until the shutdown

1914 re-commissioning and swamps of the mine workings , there was hardly any mining. A barrel-length shaft was dropped and a seigerer shaft was re-sunk. In January 1917 it was closed again because the shaft was in a fault zone. This was followed by the takeover by the United Mülheimerglück colliery . In 1926, operations began again under the name of Zeche Catharina. In the following year the mine was finally closed.

Promotion and workforce

The first production figures come from the year 1836, 65 Prussian tons of hard coal were mined. In 1839 the production rose to 381 ½ Prussian tons. In 1842, 4,967 Prussian tons of hard coal were mined. The first workforce dates from 1908, 177 miners were employed at the mine. 24,264 tons were extracted. The maximum production was achieved in 1909 with 221 miners, 43,941 tons of hard coal were produced. In 1914, 38 tons were extracted with five miners. The last figures are from 1916, with 32 miners 7,003 tons of hard coal were extracted.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c 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 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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 .

Remarks

↑ In mining, a mine is called a day overhaul , which was driven in the seam from below to above ground . Overwashes are used for weather management and driving . (Source: Tilo Cramm, Joachim Huske: Miners' language in the Ruhr area. )
↑ The direction that runs horizontally across the longitudinal axis of the deposit is referred to as cross-cutting . (Source: Förderverein Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum Goslar eV (Ed.): Ore mining in Rammelsberg. )

[Quelle_2-1] 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 .

[Quelle_1-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f 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 .

[Anm._Cramm.-3] In mining, a mine is called a day overhaul , which was driven in the seam from below to above ground . Overwashes are used for weather management and driving . (Source: Tilo Cramm, Joachim Huske: Miners' language in the Ruhr area. )

[Anm._Förderv.-4] The direction that runs horizontally across the longitudinal axis of the deposit is referred to as cross-cutting . (Source: Förderverein Rammelsberger Bergbaumuseum Goslar eV (Ed.): Ore mining in Rammelsberg. )