United Nightingale colliery
| United Nightingale colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| other names | Dünkelberg colliery | ||
| Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
| Funding / year | Max. 1876 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | up to 5 | ||
| Start of operation | 1921 | ||
| End of operation | 1927 | ||
| Successor use | Nightingale colliery industrial museum | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal / hard coal / hard coal | ||
| Hard coal | |||
| Geitling 1 | |||
| Hard coal | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geitling 3 | |||
| Hard coal | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '41.2 " N , 7 ° 18' 39.4" E | ||
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| Location | Bommern | ||
| local community | Witten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The United Nightingale colliery is a former coal mine in Bommern . The mine was a small mine that belonged to the entrepreneur Wilhelm Dünkelberg. The mine is therefore also known as the Zeche Dünkelberg . The mine was operated on the site of the disused Nachtigall colliery to supply the Dünkelberg brickworks there with coal.
Mining history
On February 1 of the year 1921 in an old mining area of mining engineering Nightingale the extraction of coal resumed. 220 meters south of the shaft Hercules were still remaining pillars remained standing, now United from the Nightingale mine in Verhieb were taken. For this purpose, two tunnels of the Turteltaube colliery and the old one of the Eleonore colliery were cleared . The studs were in the seams Geitling 1 and 3 Geitling ascended Service. In addition, a cross-cutting tunnel was excavated to connect the brickworks with the Dünkelberg quarry to the south . This tunnel, known as the nightingale tunnel, is 130 meters long. The tunnel was needed for the extraction of the shale rock extracted from the quarry . In the first year, three miners extracted 351 tons of hard coal. In the following year, the maximum production of 1876 tons of hard coal was achieved with five miners. In 1926, 1,340 tons of hard coal were extracted and the workforce was three miners. On December 4th of the same year, the promotion was stopped. On February 15, 1927, the United Nightingale colliery was finally shut down and operations were closed. After the Second World War, wild mining continued for a short time .
Successor use
The nightingale tunnel was taken over by the LWL industrial museum and converted into a visitor mine. A cross-cutting tunnel was driven into the Mentor seam. In the tunnel, the working conditions of the former coal mining are simulated for the visitors.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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 Volker Wrede: Excursion to the National GeoPark Ruhrgebiet . In: German Subcommission for Stratigraphy (Ed.): Annual Conference 2012 in Witten, proceedings, Witten 2012
Remarks
- ↑ 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. )