United Rheinelbe & Alma colliery
| United Rheinelbe & Alma colliery | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | up to approx. 900,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG | ||
| Start of operation | 1878 | ||
| End of operation | 1928 | ||
| Successor use | Distribution to neighboring mines | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 30 '24.3 " N , 7 ° 6' 59.9" E | ||
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| Location | Ückendorf | ||
| local community | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Gelsenkirchen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The colliery Rheinelbe & Alma was a coal - mine in Gelsenkirchen .
history
After the Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG was founded in 1877, this company acquired the unions of the Rheinelbe colliery and the Alma colliery, which had been independent until then, and consolidated them.
From 1878 the colliery was run as the United Rheinelbe & Alma . The shaft systems were run as separate conveyor systems with a joint plant management. The new operating company began the extensive expansion of the mine. The Rheinelbe shafts 1 and 2 were put back into operation and equipped with iron headframes .
From 1880 a coking plant was operated at the Alma 1/2 mine . 1895-1898 2.1 the shaft Rheinelbe 3 was east of the mine Rheinelbe drilled . This was expanded as a conveyor system in 1903 and equipped with a special double strut structure offset at right angles. Between 1898 and 1899 the Alma 3 shaft was sunk in the northeast field.
The following pits were then built:
For Rheinelbe:
- from 1901 to 1903 in the eastern field of the Rheinelbe 4 weather shaft
- In 1905 an older flushing shaft located between the Rheinelbe and Alma was named the Rheinelbe 5 shaft
- 1907 to 1909 Shaft Rheinelbe 6 as a weather shaft next to the Rheinelbe 1/2 conveyor system. After its completion, the headframes of shafts 1 and 2 were replaced.
For Alma:
- From 1905 to 1907 the Alma 4 weather shaft in the northwest area of the mine field
- From 1907 to 1911, in addition to the Alma 1/2 shaft, the new Alma 5 shaft, which was set up as the main production shaft.
In 1913 a facility for recycling blast furnace slag as building material was set up next to the Rheinelbe 4 shaft. The Alma 1/2/5 coking plant was expanded to become a central coking plant.
Shutdown
Despite the large number of shafts, the colliery was not able to exceed an annual output of 900,000 tons. Therefore, the owners of Gelsenkirchener Bergwerks-AG (GBAG) decided in 1926 to use the shafts of this colliery according to the new corporate structure of Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG . The Alma central coking plant was completely renovated and remained in operation for coking coal from neighboring GBAG collieries and was not shut down until 1963.
The mining on Rheinelbe 1/2/6 was stopped in 1928, on Rheinelbe 3 in 1926 and on Alma 1/2/5 in 1931 and a composite mine with the Holland colliery in Wattenscheid , which is also called Holland-Rheinelbe- Alma wore. In the early 1930s, the Rheinelbe / Alma mine field was divided: in 1932 the (northern) construction site Alma was transferred to the Pluto colliery in Wanne-Eickel, followed by the transfer of the (southern) Rheinelbe construction site to the Holland colliery in 1933. The shafts were initially all kept open and used as outdoor facilities Mine systems continued.
literature
- Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9