Wehofen colliery
| Wehofen colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | up to approx. 750,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1913 | ||
| End of operation | 1933 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '51.2 " N , 6 ° 45' 36.5" E | ||
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| Location | Wehofen | ||
| local community | Duisburg | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Duisburg | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Wehofen was a coal - mine in Wehofen , a district in the borough Walsum the city of Duisburg .
history
Planning and construction (1867 to 1913)
In 1867, unsuspected , the Union of German Emperor (GDK) an extensive mine field possession in the northern city of today Duisburg . This was divided into the individual hard coal mines Trade Union Hamborn , Trade Union Neumühl and Trade Union Rhine. The latter was the northernmost of the three mines and stretched between what is now the city of Dinslaken and the Rhine.
August Thyssen acquired the Kuxen majority in the GDK in 1885 . In 1903 he joined the Rhenish-Westphalian coal syndicate with the GDK . In order to gain greater influence there, the coal fields that were awarded should be exploited more intensively.
The plans to build the Rhine coal mine were taking shape. Three shafts were to be built in parallel: a double shaft was to be built in Walsum-Dorf (roughly on the site of today's Walsum colliery ), and another near Haus Loh in Driesenbusch in the Walsum- Aldenrade district . The main conveyor system with three shafts was planned in Wehofen .
In 1909 the preparatory work for the sinking of shafts 1 and 2 in Wehofen began. Due to problems in land acquisition for the remaining mines was limited initially to a double pit in Wehofen that henceforth Rhein I was called.
Coal mining (1913 to 1928)
The wells were 1913 and 1914 in the promotion . Identical headframes were erected above both shafts and the daytime facilities expanded. At the same time, a factory settlement was built to the east of the mine in 1913/14 as planned, which was exemplary for the Thyssen mining industry. Due to the period of upheaval after the First World War , further plans for the Rhine coal mine were dropped. The Walsum union was continued as an independent company and began to sink the shafts.
In 1924 the maximum production result was the annual production of 720,000 tons of coal. In 1926, the Rhein I mine was incorporated into Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG and renamed the Wehofen colliery . The newly created group arranged for the conveyor systems in the Duisburg area to be combined and rationalized. A connection to the neighboring Friedrich Thyssen 2/5 colliery was opened.
Delivery rates:
- 1913: 39,613 tons
- 1915: 384,000 t
- 1920: 409,000 t
- 1924: 720,000 t
- 1925: 660,500 tons
- 1927: 614,500 tons
Decommissioning and further use (from 1928)
On September 30, 1928, the Vereinigte Stahlwerke AG decided to close the Wehofen colliery due to the rationalization measures during the global economic crisis . The complete shutdown followed in 1933. The Wehofen shafts were kept open and took over weather management and dewatering for the Friedrich Thyssen 2/5 colliery.
The headframe above shaft 2 was removed as early as 1933. After the Friedrich Thyssen 2/5 colliery was closed in 1976, the headframe of shaft Wehofen 1 was also demolished and replaced by a small conveyor system.
After backfilling both Wehofen shafts in 1993, only small remains of the daytime facilities are preserved.
swell
- Rudolf Stampfuß : Walsum - From the village to the industrial community , Walsum 1955, pages 68-69
- Report on the administration and the status of the community affairs of the community and mayor's office Walsum 1911 to 1923 , Walsum 1926
- Report on the status and administration of the municipal affairs of the municipality of Walsum for the financial years 1926 and 1927 , Walsum 1928
literature
- Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg: Duisburg mines in historical photographs , Sutton Verlag Erfurt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-747-9