Colliery counterbalance
| Colliery counterbalance | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | until 1838 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 16 | ||
| Start of operation | 1750 | ||
| End of operation | 1832 | ||
| Successor use | Consolidation to the Nachtigall colliery | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '33.3 " N , 7 ° 18' 18.2" E | ||
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| Location | Bommern | ||
| local community | Witten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Counterlage colliery is a former coal mine in Bommern . The mine was also known under the names Zeche Wiederlage and Zeche Widerlage Tiefbau . Another name for the mine was Zeche Wiederlagegericht Herbede . The mine mouth hole was located below the path from Muttental to the Hardenstein castle ruins .
history
The beginnings
On February 20 of the year 1747 was carried out inspection of the Fund point. On February 23 of that year was a small length field for the reduction in seam Geitling awarded . The farmer Jakob Niederste Berghaus was enfeoffed with the field abutment. In 1750 the abutment tunnel was put into operation. For the first few years, the farmer Jakob Niederste Berghaus himself worked as a kerbstock guide on his own mine , on the instructions of the mining authority . Later shift supervisors were commissioned by the mining authority to supervise the mine. From 1767 onwards, various shift supervisors were working on counter-support, some of whom came from the neighboring mines. The mine was in operation in 1769, but there was hardly any extraction in winter. In addition, there was only one daytime operation. From 1771 the mine was in operation for several years. On February 26, 1771, Jakob Niederste Berghaus was recorded in the documents as the sole tradesman. The survey had meanwhile been carried out, the legal fees were paid. From 1778, the Mining Authority appointed a supervisor to supervise the mine in addition to the shift supervisor. There is evidence that the mine was still in operation in 1784.
The other years
From 1786 the mine was only allowed to supply coal to the Ruhr boatmen. For this reason, a coal delivery contract was concluded with the rent master Müser. The contract was confirmed by the head of the Brandenburg mining authority district, Freiherr vom Stein . In the following year the mine was listed on the Niemeyer's map . In the years that followed, the merchants in the area expressed an interest in the coal that was extracted for counter-support. For this reason, contracts were signed with the merchants Müser, Niederste Berghaus and Schulte im Saldenberg in 1798. In 1800 the abutment tunnel was in operation. This tunnel was located in the area of the railway line of the later Ruhr Valley Railway . A sliding path with a length of 75 Lachtern ran from the tunnel to the Ruhr. The coal was transported by carts to the coal depot near Hardenstein. On March 13th, 1801, an extension of the mine field was awarded. From 1808, a shaft that was located on the divide of the Morgenstern colliery was used jointly with the Morgenstern colliery.
On July 15, 1824, the trades signed a contract with the Eleonore & Nachtigall operating group . Through this contract, the counter-support tunnel was made available to the operating group Eleonore & Nachtigall. The deep abutment tunnel was partially repaired on behalf of Ludwig von Elverfeld. In October 1827 the mine was taken out of service. The reason for this measure were mountain disturbances . In 1828 the mine was out of order, and part of the coal mined by the Eleonore & Nachtigall operating group was extracted via the abutment tunnel . The coal was transported from the abutment tunnel to the Ruhr. After the mining above the bottom of the tunnel had been completed in 1830, the Counterlage colliery was closed. On April 25, 1832, it was merged into the United Nightingale colliery. The merger took place below the bottom of the St.-Johannes-Erbstollen and served a common civil engineering , in which both mines above the bottom of the Erbstollen remained independent. From February 1836 underground mining began, the Neptun shaft was used for mining . This shaft was shared by both mines. On January 9, 1839, the partial consolidation to the United Nightingale & Aufgottgewagen colliery took place . After the dismantling was completed, the Widerlage colliery was shut down in June 1844.
The last few years
The mine was meanwhile connected to the Brassert shaft of the Martha colliery underground. From 1851, part of Martha's production was transported through the abutment tunnel to the Ruhr . In 1853 the Widerlage colliery was back in operation. On May 4, 1854, the remaining field of the mine consolidated into the Nachtigall colliery civil engineering. Excluded from this measure was a pillar above the machine floor of the Neptun shaft.
Promotion and workforce
The first known workforce dates from 1754, when two miners were employed in the mine. The first production figures come from the year 1832, in that year 8,861 1/4 tons of hard coal were produced . The highest annual output in the plant's history of 5,000 t was achieved in 1838 with 16 employees. In 1840, 84,608 bushels of hard coal were extracted. The last known production figures of the mine are from 1844, in that year 28,413 bushels of hard coal were produced.
Current condition
Not much has been preserved from the former Counterlage colliery. The tunnel mouth hole of the "Widerlage" tunnel is one of the sights on the Muttental mining trail . Behind the embankment of the museum railway there is an overgrown heap that belongs to the former mine.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l 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 .
- ↑ a b c Thomas Schilp (Ed.), Wilfried Reininghaus, Joachim Huske: Das Muth-, Verleih-, and Confirmation Book 1770 - 1773. A source on the early history of Ruhr mining, Wittnaack Verlag, Dortmund 1993, ISBN 3-9802117-9- 7 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Gerhard Koetter (Ed.): Mining in the Muttental. 1st edition, Druckstatt Wöhrle, Witten 2001, ISBN 3-00-008659-5 .
Web links
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Zeche Widerlage (accessed on March 20, 2014)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 (accessed on March 20, 2014)
- Early mining in the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (accessed on March 20, 2014)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Stollenmundloch abutment (accessed on March 21, 2014)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: map of the area (accessed on March 21, 2014)