United Charlotte Colliery
| United Charlotte Colliery | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | 100,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1832 | ||
| End of operation | 1910 | ||
| Successor use | Continued operation as Theodor colliery | ||
| 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 colliery Charlotte was a coal - mine in Altendorf ( Ruhr ), now the Essen district Burgaltendorf .
history
The coal mine Charlotte existed as a tunnel operation in Altendorf (Ruhr) since the 18th century. In 1785 a new Charlotte solution tunnel was built on the mountain slope from Altendorf down to the Ruhr (today's Charlottenberg) , which was equipped with a colliery house in 1790 . Also for the water solution , a steam engine was installed here for the first time by order of the Prussian mountain shelf .
Now in 1800, the operator of the tunnel Charlotte bought several surrounding Berechtsame on to the mining law union United Charlotte to start. Several additional tunnels were excavated at different levels of the mountainside.
After exchanging fields with the Heinrich colliery in Überruhr , which is adjacent to the west, civil engineering began in 1832 . Several shafts leading vertically downwards were sunk , including the later Charlotte IV shaft shortly before the Charlotte tunnel opening. The purpose of the shafts was to create a vertical connection between the tunnel operations working on different levels. Likewise, the coal reserves lying below the tunnel floors should be tapped. Charlotte IV shaft was provided with a reel device.
From 1840, a horse-powered railway connected the Charlotte coal mine with the Mönkhoffsbank colliery and the adjoining Holteyer harbor . In addition, a route to a coal defeat was laid directly on the Ruhr.
From 1851 the Charlotte shaft and tunnel were also used by the Heinrich colliery to exploit Heinrich's eastern field. From 1868 the Ostfeld Heinrich von Ver. Charlotte fully leased. The production reached almost 100,000 tons of anthracite coal annually.
In 1874 the Bergisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft connected the United Charlotte 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 .
Decommissioning and subsequent use
Due to the risk of flooding from the Ruhr, there were repeated interruptions in operations due to water ingress. In the long run, the Charlotte union could not cope with the resulting losses in the balance sheet.
Therefore, the production operation was stopped in 1910. The Heinrich field leased was returned to the Heinrich colliery. The pit field Ver. Charlotte was sold to the Johann Deimelsberg union . From 1915 onwards, the latter leased the mine field to Charlotte Bergbaugesellschaft mbH, which continued coal mining on a smaller scale at the tunnel level .
After the Johann Deimelsberg colliery was taken over by Adler Bergbau-AG in 1922, the long-term plan was to open the Ver. Charlotte, together with the Steingatt colliery, which was also acquired, was to be reopened as a compound system. Because of the bankruptcy of Adler AG in 1929, these plans had to stand back first.
The rights of Adler AG were sold to the Heinrich union in 1929. This took the production operation to Ver. Charlotte up again. An extensive expansion of the mine began by re-opening a Theodor shaft next to the Charlotte IV shaft. From then on it was operated as the Theodor colliery .
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).