United Treue & Amsterdam colliery

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United Treue & Amsterdam colliery
General information about the mine
Funding / year Max. 2888 t
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1811
End of operation 1852
Successor use Brockhauser civil engineering colliery
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
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Location Sundern
local community Bochum
Independent city ( NUTS3 ) Bochum
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The United Treue & Amsterdam colliery in the Sundern district of Bochum is a former hard coal mine . The mine emerged from the consolidation of previously independent mines.

Mining history

On July 20, 1811, the Zeche Treue consolidated with the mutation of Amsterdam into the Zeche Vereinigte Treue & Amsterdam. Presumably, however, there was only minor degradation in the near-surface area . The tunnel was abandoned and verbrach over time. In 1815 mining took place again, the mined coal was transported to the Ruhr via a sliding route . This sliding path had a length of 550 laughs . In between 1820 and 1825, the bay was Johann in promotion . In 1827 the Wilhelm shaft was in operation. In 1830 a tunnel was created in the Ruhr valley and excavated in the sunshine seam. The tunnel was driven in an easterly direction under the Rauterdeller valley. In the excavation of the tunnel were parts of the old tunnel depths aufgewältigt . After the connection, both tunnels had a total length of 2200 meters. The production took place in the shafts Johann and Wilhelm, shaft Johann was specially cleared again for this purpose. The coal extracted was transported via a sliding path from the Johann shaft to the tunnel mouth hole of the upper gallery and from there on the existing sliding path to the Ruhr. In 1833 the Wilhelm shaft was in production. In the same year, a horse-drawn tram to the Ruhr was built together with the Ignatius colliery . In 1839 the deep Treue tunnel approached the eastern marrow divide . On March 14, 1842, the Längenfeld Amsterdam was awarded. In 1845 Schacht Wilhelm was still in production. Since mining ended in 1852, the mine was shut down that same year. The tunnel broke over the following years. On November 22nd, 1873, the United Treue & Amsterdam colliery consolidated with other mines to form the Brockhauser Tiefbau colliery .

Promotion and workforce

The first production figures come from the year 1825, it was produced 1880 tons of hard coal . In 1827 the production sank to 1,453 tons of hard coal. In 1830 the production was 456 tons of hard coal, the workforce was between two and eight miners . In 1836 4887 Prussian tons of hard coal were extracted. In 1840, 14 employees mined 1926 tons of hard coal. The maximum production of the mine was provided in 1843, it was produced a production of 2888 tons of hard coal. In 1845 the production sank to 1653 tons of hard coal. In 1847 a total of 2158 tons of hard coal were mined with 12 to 19 employees. The last known production figures of the mine come from the year 1851, 1441 tons of hard coal were produced.

literature

  • 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 .

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