United Hermann Colliery (Witten)

United Hermann colliery
	General information about the mine
	Headframe of the Margarethe shaft
Funding / year	Max. 19,880 t
	Information about the mining company
Employees	Max. 51
Start of operation	1891
End of operation	1927
Successor use	Dachs & Greveloch colliery
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 25 '15.7 " N , 7 ° 19' 3.7" E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '15.7 " N , 7 ° 19' 3.7" E
	Location United Hermann colliery
Location	Bommern
local community	Witten
District ( NUTS3 )	Ennepe-Ruhr district
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The United Hermann colliery is a former hard coal mine in Bommern . The mine was shut down and reopened several times during its operating time. It emerged from the consolidation of two separate mines.

history

The beginnings

On November 2, 1891, the collieries Zeche Hermann and Herberholz consolidated into the Zeche Vereinigte Hermann. The purpose of the consolidation was to remove the remains of the seam groups in the Geitling, Kreftenscheer and Mausegatt seams . The main trades and manager of the mine was Dietrich Köllermann. The excavation took place below the St. Johannes Erbstollen sole in civil engineering . There were two shafts , these were the Margarethe (shaft 1) and Anna (shaft 2) shafts. Shaft Anna was a tonnage shaft. The weather bed was at a depth of 63 meters, the building floor at a depth of 83 meters. In the same year, the Constanz shaft of the United Louisenglück colliery was taken over; this shaft served as a weather shaft . The coal mined was transported away over the course of the day with the Muttentalbahn . In 1892 Dietrich Köllermann handed over the mine to his son Louis Köllermann and to the mine director Gustav Daber.

The further operation

Shaft 1 was closed in 1895. The following year, which was encouraging set on the bay. 2 As a result of this measure, only coal was extracted in the tunnel . In 1898 operations were postponed. In the summer of 1899 began, a seigeren shaft to sink . The new shaft was called the Hermann shaft. The starting point of Schacht Hermann was one kilometer from the Bommern train station. Minor dismantling was carried out with two shafts in the same year. At that time, Steiger from Thyssen was in charge of the mine . In 1900, the first was in the shaft Hermann at a depth of 40 meters sole recognized. For the operation of the carrier and for the operation of the dewatering machine one was steam engine installed. On March 22nd, 1901, there was a severe water ingress, so that the entire pit flooded . Two miners were killed in this event . Attempts to swamp the pit were unsuccessful. As a result, the United Hermann colliery was initially shut down on March 1, 1902, and was foreclosed in March of the following year. The new owner of the mine was now the merchant Stöters from Mintard. The company Oppenheimer & Cie from Cologne took over the rights for the mine from Stöters. On June 1, 1904, the Maximus and Urban collieries were acquired. In October of the same year, the new owners had a new boiler system installed with a steam engine and pumps .

In 1904, the Hermann mine field was successfully swamped. At the end of the year, the mine was put back into operation through the Maximus tunnel. So that civil engineering operations could be resumed, the Hermann shaft was restored. The total funding of the mine took place now through the shaft Hermann. The coal was transported to the Bommern railway station by means of coal wagons over the track of the siding with benzol locomotives. The mountains resulting from the operation of the mine were heaped up on the heap at the Hermann shaft. In 1905 the Anna shaft was dropped . On January 19, 1906, the Maximus and United Hermann collieries were consolidated. Nevertheless, this year there was only minor dismantling, a weather overburden was created after days. A horse-drawn towing railway to the Bommern train station was built above ground for transport. In 1907, two weather shafts and one extraction shaft were in operation. In the same year, three length fields were acquired, the fields Kleist, Nelkenthal and Rabener. In the same year, the opening of the Längenfeld Rabener began. In 1908, the Längenfeld Kleist was opened up, for this purpose new tunnels were excavated and old mine workings were cleared . The locomotive service to Bommern railway station was put into operation above ground. In the following year, the shaft was sunk to a depth of 50 meters. At that time, the mine operator Brune was in charge of the mine .

The other years

In 1910 the Herberholz field was mined. In the following year, the mine workings in the Herberholz field had to be swamped. In 1913 the training and equipment was stopped in our own mine field . At the beginning of 1914 the mine owners ran into financial difficulties. Since the representative of the mine had died, no more wages were paid. For this reason, the United Hermann mine was closed on March 27 of the same year and then drank again. In 1916, the United Hermann colliery was foreclosed, and C. Deilmann became the new owner. In July 1918, the mine was put back into operation. The new owners had a half-timbered house built on the factory premises in the same year. The laundry , blacksmith shop , engine room, lamp room and offices were all operated in this building . In October of the same year a joint venture was established with the collieries Gut Glück & Wrangel , Frielinghaus and the St. Johannes Erbstollen . As a result of this joint venture, the production now took place at the Gut Glück & Wrangel mine. In the same year a new level was set at a depth of 18 meters, the previous first level (40 meter level) was swamped. In 1919 the mine was put back into operation.

The last few years

In 1920, the construction site was 550 meters across and 290 meters across. On November 1st, 1925, the United Hermann colliery became an independent business again, the reason for this being the closure of the Gut Glück & Wrangel colliery. There were two tunnels and a weather shaft. On February 25, 1926, a mining contract was signed with the Fortuna collieries in the west, Vereinigte Hardenstein, Oberste Frielinghaus and the St. Johannes Erbstollen. The purpose of the contract was to mine the remaining seam sections above the St. Johannes Erbstollen sole. The excavation took place above the St. Johannes Erbstollen sole in the tunnel construction and over the 30 meter bottom in the civil engineering. On December 24, 1927, the United Hermann colliery was finally shut down. From February 29 of the following year, most of the daytime facilities were torn down. From the year 1930 belonged Berechtsame for mine roof & Greve hole.

Promotion and workforce

The first known workforce and production figures come from the year 1891, at that time 23 miners were employed in the mine who produced 3935 tons of hard coal . In 1895, ten employees produced 1346 tons of hard coal. In 1898 the production sank drastically to only 47 tons of hard coal. In the following year, production fell again to just 27 tons of hard coal. In 1900, with 21 employees, 1950 tons of hard coal were mined. In 1902 another slump in production, with eight miners only 90 tons of hard coal were extracted. In 1905, 1561 tons of hard coal were mined with six employees. The maximum funding was provided in 1910. This year 19,880 tons of hard coal were mined with 51 employees. In 1912, 10,069 tons of hard coal were mined with 34 employees. In the following year, 36 employees mined 10,316 tons of hard coal. In 1926 the production sank to 6,739 tons, this production was provided with 25 employees. The last known production and workforce figures for the mine are from 1927; 42 employees produced 10,258 tonnes of hard coal.

Current condition

From the former colliery Hermann nor the Industrial and today are Bergehalde received. The company buildings are part of the Muttental Mining Trail , they are located on Muttentalstrasse. The dump is also located on Muttentalstrasse, which is also part of the Muttental mining trail. During the operation of the United Hermann colliery, the overburden from the tunnel was transported to the mine dump via a short towing track.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t 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 Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): From seams, tunnels and shafts in the Muttental. 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-612-6 .
^ The early mining on the Ruhr: Building of the United Hermann colliery (last accessed on October 30, 2012)
^ The early mining on the Ruhr: dump of the United Hermann colliery (last accessed on October 30, 2012)

Web links

Early mining on the Ruhr: United Hermann colliery (accessed on March 24, 2011)
Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 (accessed on March 24, 2011)
Early mining on the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (accessed on March 24, 2011)

Remarks

↑ A weather overburden is a pit construction built in the seam from bottom to top, which is used for ventilation . (Source: Tilo Cramm, Joachim Huske: Bergman 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_1-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t 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 .

[Quelle_2-2] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition, Verlag Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster KG, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .

[Quelle_3-3] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .

[Quelle_4-4] Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): From seams, tunnels and shafts in the Muttental. 1st edition, Klartext Verlag, Essen 2007, ISBN 978-3-89861-612-6 .

[Quelle_5-7] The early mining on the Ruhr: Building of the United Hermann colliery (last accessed on October 30, 2012)

[Quelle_6-8] The early mining on the Ruhr: dump of the United Hermann colliery (last accessed on October 30, 2012)

[Anm._Cramm.-5] A weather overburden is a pit construction built in the seam from bottom to top, which is used for ventilation . (Source: Tilo Cramm, Joachim Huske: Bergman language in the Ruhr area. )

[Anm._Förderv.-6] 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. )