Werne colliery

Werne colliery
	General information about the mine
	; Rededicated main building shaft I / II 2007
	Information about the mining company
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 39 '31 " N , 7 ° 38' 32" E Coordinates: 51 ° 39 '31 " N , 7 ° 38' 32" E
	Location of the Werne colliery
Location	Werne
local community	Werne
District ( NUTS3 )	Unna
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The Zeche Werne was a coal - mine in the town of Werne at the lip .

Mining history

The Lower Saxony stock corporation Georgs-Marien-Bergwerks- und Hüttenverein chose Werne as the location for a new mine after a flood in 1898 forced the closure of their Piesberg colliery near Osnabrück . In order not to have to buy coking coal for its steel and rolling mills from the Rheinisch-Westfälischen Kohlen Syndikat for a longer period of time , the stock corporation planned a new plant on the edge of the Ruhr area .

In 1899, the sinking of the Werne 1 and 2 shafts began . The Werne colliery was the first mine in the Ruhr area to be built north of the Lippe . Coal mining started three years later. In 1905 there was a mine gas explosion in shaft 1 , which destroyed some of the recently completed daytime facilities . The total damage amounted to about 4 million marks; However, there were no deaths or serious injuries. The shaft system at the site of shaft 3 (sunk 1912–1913) in the neighboring municipality of Rünthe , today a district of the city of Bergkamen , was built as an independent extraction location (with extraction , coal washing , administration, boiler house, wash house and power plant ) to develop the southern field . The colliery was connected to the Hamm – Münster railway line via the Werne – Bockum – Höveler railway . The coal was primarily transported via this railway line to a steelworks in Georgsmarienhütte .

Due to the global economic crisis, the coking plant of the Werne colliery and the surface facilities at shaft 3 in Rünthe were shut down as early as 1930 . All daytime facilities there such as the power plant and boiler house were demolished in 1937; the coal washing plant served the National Socialists from then on as a store for the national grain stores. After the Second World War , the cableway in shaft 3 was resumed, as many of the miners still available from Bergkamen-Rünthe and the surrounding area would otherwise not have been able to get to their workplaces due to the destruction of the canal and Lippe bridges during the war.

Shaft 4 was sunk in 1954 in the municipality of Stockum (now part of the city of Werne) and went into operation in 1959. In 1960, the cableway in shaft 3 was discontinued. Since then, the shaft has only served as a retracting weather shaft and for several years also as a brine supplier for the brine bath in Werne. The Werne colliery was merged with the Heinrich-Robert mine in Hamm on November 11, 1973 . The breakthrough between Werne and Heinrich-Robert took place in 1974 in the area of the Wilhelm seam . In addition, shaft 3 was taken over by the Königsborn mine at the same time . Due to the overcapacity in the coal mining industry , the Werne colliery was shut down in 1975; Parts of the workforce and the facilities were taken over by the Heinrich-Robert colliery.

Reuse

After the funding was shut down, the buildings were continued to be used by RAG. This is where the vehicle fleet including the associated workshop, a resource store, the diesel locomotive workshop, the safety department and other RAG workshops are housed. There was also a storage facility for the national coal reserve.

Current condition

Several listed buildings (such as a hoisting machine house , forge, gatekeeper's house, gymnasium and administration) still exist from the Werne 1/2 mine . Today's owner of most of the buildings on Werne 1/2, including the administrative building visible in the picture, is Prof. Dr. Multhaup Industrieliegenschaften GmbH, a company that developed the property and rented it out to various businesses.

At the Werne 3 shaft in Bergkamen-Rünthe, the administration and chew building as well as the coal washing plant are still standing . The shaft remained in operation until 2000 for water retention and ventilation for neighboring systems. Today a mine extraction system sucks mine gas through a pipeline installed in the filled shaft , which is used to generate electricity and heat. The former wash house was thoroughly renovated and rebuilt in 1989 and now houses the Schacht III cultural center , a multifunctional meeting center which, with 800 seats, is the largest event room in Bergkamen. In addition, the former coal washing plant now serves as the central silo of a feed mill.

The daytime facilities of shaft 4 in Werne-Stockum were completely demolished after the shaft was backfilled in 1980. Today only a small sign indicates the former location of the shaft.

The Evenkamp district clearly shows the classification of employees associated with mining , as can also be found in other cities in the Ruhr area: The mansions of the directors and operations managers are located directly next to the factory premises (Kamener Straße); The so-called "colliery officials" lived on the streets bordering the factory premises, such as Freiherr-von-Stein-Strasse and parts of Lippestrasse. B. the Steiger . The further you are from the colliery, the smaller the houses / apartments become. The furthest away former colliery colony is in the area of Brachtstrasse - although in some cases only the so-called lower working classes such as smugglers to several families lived in one entrance.

The Werne 1/2 and Werne 3 pits and the Rünthe express train settlement are now part of the Route of Industrial Culture .

literature

Peter Voß: The mines in the Unna district. Picture chronicle of the mines Freiberg, Caroline, Massener Tiefbau, Alter Hellweg, Königsborn, Monopol, Haus Aden, Prussia, Victoria, Minister Achenbach, Hermann, Werne, Stollen- und Kleinzechen . 1st edition. Regio-Verlag Peter Voß, Werne 1995, ISBN 3-929158-05-1 .
Peter Voß: Werne Colliery 1899–1992. The history of mining in Werne, Rünthe and Stockum . Documentation with historical views. 1st edition. Regio-Verlag Peter Voß, Werne 1992, ISBN 3-929158-01-9 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Geology and mining of natural resources in Bad Iburg - founding a colliery. In: geo-iburg.de. June 6, 1901, accessed January 3, 2017 .
↑ Joachim Huske : The coal mine in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning until 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum , vol. 144). 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 , p. 1018.
↑ Joachim Huske: The coal mine in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. SBochum 2006, p. 1019.
↑ Note in: Ruhrkohle, newspaper for the employees of the RAG , year 1985, issue 5, supplement Westphalia, p. 1.

[1] Geology and mining of natural resources in Bad Iburg - founding a colliery. In: geo-iburg.de. June 6, 1901, accessed January 3, 2017 .

[2] Joachim Huske : The coal mine in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning until 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum , vol. 144). 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 , p. 1018.

[3] Joachim Huske: The coal mine in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 . 3rd, revised and expanded edition. SBochum 2006, p. 1019.

[4] Note in: Ruhrkohle, newspaper for the employees of the RAG , year 1985, issue 5, supplement Westphalia, p. 1.