United Westphalia colliery
| United Westphalia colliery | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1857 | ||
| End of operation | 1895 | ||
| Successor use | Summary of the Kaiserstuhl colliery; Tremonia colliery takes over the United Westphalia mine field with shaft 2 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 31 '5 " N , 7 ° 26' 45" E | ||
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| Location | Downtown north | ||
| local community | Dortmund | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Dortmund | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Westphalia colliery is a former hard coal mine in the north of Dortmund .
history
The history of the Westphalia colliery, later United Westphalia, began with the sinking of a first shaft in 1853. Work on shaft 1 was interrupted because of water ingress. A year later became the dewatering another pit dug pit with the second The shafts reached the Carboniferous in 1856 at 75 meters and 72 meters . In 1857 coal mining began, in 1860 the mine was connected to the railway network, and two years later a coking plant was put into operation on the premises.
Between 1864 and 1871 the mine had to contend with serious setbacks. There were several water ingresses and swamps in the conveyor floors .
In June 1872 there were strikes at the coal mine in Westphalia. The demand for better wages and working conditions led to the first mass strike by miners in the Ruhr area . The movement began in May 1872 in Essen. In Dortmund, 1,180 workers from the Tremonia and Westphalia collieries struck for the so-called Essen demands.
In 1873, the sinking of another shaft began. The Westphalia 3 shaft, later called Kaiserstuhl I , was located two kilometers northeast of the Westphalia 1/2 plant on Bornstrasse. In 1874 the carbon was reached here at 113 meters, and mining began in 1877 . On December 17, 1880, there was a firedamp explosion , which killed three miners . Another firedamp explosion occurred on September 16, 1882, claiming five lives.
With the sinking of the Kaiserstuhl 2 shaft in 1891, mining at the Westphalia colliery was stopped. Shafts 1 and 2 were combined in the newly founded Kaiserstuhl colliery, in the Westphalia mine field only residual mining was carried out.
The urban area of Dortmund had meanwhile expanded to the north, and at the same time work began on the Dortmund harbor . A dismantling ban was issued for the Westphalia colliery on March 31, 1895, with the result that the daytime facilities of the mine were shut down and the workforce was relocated to the Kaiserstuhl colliery. In the same year, part of the field was given over to the Tremonia colliery by the United Westphalia . The Westphalia 1 shaft was filled , but the Westphalia 2 shaft continued to serve as a weather and recovery shaft for the Tremonia colliery. In the early 1920s, a closed hammer-head winding tower with an electric tower hoisting machine was erected over this shaft . In 1924 a laundry and business building was added. When the Tremonia colliery stopped mining in 1931, the Westphalia 2 shaft was finally abandoned and filled.
present
The former wash house of the Westphalia colliery has been preserved to this day. Today the Künstlerhaus Dortmund is housed in this building .
The hammer head tower of shaft Westphalia 2 was dismantled in 1929 and rebuilt above shaft 3 of the Castrop colliery Erin . It still stands there today as an industrial monument and is one of the landmarks of the city of Castrop-Rauxel .
literature
- Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area . Data and facts from the beginnings to 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum . No. 144 ). 3rd, revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 978-3-937203-24-9 .
