Waltrop colliery

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Waltrop colliery
General information about the mine
Waltrop colliery in Halle.jpg
Former workshop
Information about the mining company
Start of operation 1905
End of operation 1979
Successor use Cultural monument, commercial space
Funded raw materials
Degradation of Hard coal
Geographical location
Coordinates 51 ° 37 '7 "  N , 7 ° 25' 19.1"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 37 '7 "  N , 7 ° 25' 19.1"  E
Colliery Waltrop (Regional Association Ruhr)
Waltrop colliery
Location of the Waltrop mine
Location Brockenscheidt
local community Waltrop
District ( NUTS3 ) Recklinghausen
country State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country Germany
District Ruhr area

The Zeche Waltrop was a coal - mine in Waltrop .

Mining history

The colliery was created in connection with the intensified arms race of the European states after 1900. The Prussian state bought after 1900 mining concessions in the Ruhr area to the Army and Navy of coal and coke to supply. The Royal Prussian Mining Inspection Waltrop and the Royal Prussian Mining Directorate Recklinghausen were responsible for the construction and operation of the mine and the associated housing complexes. The architect van de Sand planned the surface facilities . The former Heilermann and Lehnemann farms served as the site. The Lehnemannsche Hof was used in the colliery as a building yard and its stable for the pit horses. The mine field had an underground area of ​​27 square kilometers.

In 1903 the first two shafts were sunk . Shaft 1 had a depth of 792 meters and was used for rope travel , extraction and ventilation (pulling in). Shaft 2 was the extending weather shaft.

In 1905 production started and in 1909 a coking plant was built. In 1909 there was a severe water ingress that shut down coal production for almost four years and reduced the workforce to 300 miners through layoffs. Only after commissioning of a new mammoth -Pumpanlage the two shafts could gesümpft and work be resumed underground. In 1914 the mine had more than 1200 employees again. Further reductions in production volumes and the number of employees resulted from the First World War, the occupation of the Ruhr , the Kapp Putsch and the global economic crisis in the early 1920s.

Until 1926, the facility was administered by the relevant mining directorate. In 1926, like other state mines, it became part of the newly founded Bergwerks-AG Recklinghausen . This was merged in 1935 with the state-owned Hibernia AG since 1917 . In 1939 Waltrop was granted town charter due to the increase in population due to the miners and their relatives.

During the Second World War, coal production increased due to armaments, and over 1,600 foreign and forced laborers were deployed. Towards the end of the war, the daytime facilities were badly damaged by bombing, and the pit itself only barely escaped drowning .

In 1953 the colliery already had over 2,300 miners, in 1956 shaft 3 was sunk as a material and ropeway shaft in the Rieselfeldern . In 1957 the colliery had the highest number of employees: 2,817.

In 1964, the Waltrop colliery was in acute danger of being shut down, but this was averted after a great protest by the population, also because the shutdown would have hit Waltrop particularly hard, as the city's growth and prosperity were based almost exclusively on the mine.

In 1969 the mine became the property of the new Ruhrkohle AG as a consolidation company for German hard coal production.

The highest extraction was reached in 1974 with 1.13 million tons of coal. Back then, 2021 employees were working at the Waltrop colliery.

In 1978 Waltrop and the neighboring Miner Achenbach colliery in Lünen-Brambauer were given joint plant management; just one year later, Waltrop was shut down on June 29, 1979 with 1,294 employees.

Reuse

Winding machine with traction sheave (left) and low and high pressure cylinders from 1906
Commons : more  - collection of images, videos and audio files

In 1984 the Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft NRW initially acquired the land and buildings with funds from the Landfonds NRW. Nine of the eleven remaining buildings were placed under monument protection in 1988 , next to the Zeche Zollverein the largest connected hall ensemble in the Ruhr area.

As part of the International Building Exhibition Emscher Park , the 38 hectare site was renovated as part of the Work in the Park project. The two shafts were filled and provided with prototype hoods , the track systems, cooling towers and chimneys completely dismantled. The Art Nouveau facades of the remaining buildings were restored, and new buildings with ecological principles were added as a harmonious addition. At the end of the IBA (1999), all commercial properties had already been sold, including the original gatehouse with the milk bar behind it, dating from the 1950s, the counter and central machine hall, further back the wages hall with adjacent black and white pubs and the former Engine shed with administration building. In the hoisting machine hall 3/4, a four-cylinder tandem hoisting machine with a reel converted to a Koepe disk was preserved. The work was financed by grants from the regional economic development program, funds from the property fund NRW and the city of Waltrop.

The outside area was structured with paths, squares and parking space and most of it was greened, and the track bed was converted into a new access road. On the adjoining Brockenscheidt dump , the 20 meter high gauge tower by the artist Jan Bormann was built in May 2000 from around 1000 meters of gauge slats .

From 2003 to 2006, the second section of the site, the polluted area of ​​the former coking plant, which was still under mountain supervision at the time, was opened up for further business settlements.

All buildings on the site are now being used commercially, including by Manufactum and Hase Spezialräder , as well as by medium-sized craft and service companies and engineering offices, as well as a gallery whose sculptures are also set up outside. With around 40 new settlements, the former colliery site now offers around 350 jobs.

photos

  • Conversion of the hall for retail ( Manufactum )

  • Information boards

  • Halde Brockenscheidt with ...

  • ... gauge tower made from laths

  • Overview of the terrain from the gauge tower

  • Carrier building from the west

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 , pp. 1010-1011.
  • Wolfgang Schubert: Zeche Waltrop - memories of the former "Zeche im Grünen". Regio-Verlag, Werne 2013, ISBN 978-3-929158-29-8 .

Web links

Commons : Zeche Waltrop  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Joachim Huske: The coal mine in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, Bochum 2006, p. 1010.
  2. ↑ a b c d Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. 3rd edition, Bochum 2006, p. 1011.