Wilhelmine Mevissen mine
| Wilhelmine Mevissen mine | |||
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| Funding / year | up to approx. 1,000,000 t | ||
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| Start of operation | 1913 | ||
| End of operation | 1973 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '6.5 " N , 6 ° 41' 22.4" E | ||
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| Location | Bergheim | ||
| local community | Duisburg | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | Duisburg | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The mine Wilhelmine Mevissen was a coal - mine in Duisburg , then Bergheim .
history
1872 took place ceremony of the coal mine Wilhelmine Mevissen by field division of the 1,857 muted mining area of Diergardt . On June 23, 1874, the field was actually divided into three separate fields, one of which was Wilhelmine Mevissen with 10,695,983 m² owned by Franz Wilhelm Königs and Mevissen.
On July 1, 1912, the Wilhelmine Mevissen union in Rheinhausen-Bergheim , which was founded on August 8, 1903, began sinking a double shaft system using the freezing process. On October 28, 1913, the coal mountains were encountered in the Melissen I shaft at 107.3 m . The sinking stopped at a final depth of 305 m at the end of 1913. The Wilhelmine Melissen II shaft, which was sunk at the same time as the freezing process, reached its final depth of 216 m in 1913. A year later, the planned production began there. It was planned to upgrade both shafts to equal production shafts. Due to the political developments in 1914, a headframe was only built above shaft 1 , shaft 2 was set up as a weather shaft .
The production of anthracite coal soon reached 600,000 t annually. A briquette factory was built on shaft 1/2 in 1914 , which was shut down again in 1928. On the other side of Moerser Straße, around the Schauenplatz, a now listed settlement for the employees of the mine was built in the early 1920s .
In 1924 the Fritz mine field in Rumeln and in 1927 the Tellus II field were acquired. Both fields bordered the western marrow of the Mevissen mine field. Also in 1927, the Wilhelmine Mevissen union, together with the Diergardt colliery union, was transferred to the newly founded Diergardt-Mevissen Bergbau-AG , based in Rheinhausen-Hochemmerich . A connection between the two mines had already been opened in the mid-1920s in order to couple the compressed air supply to both pits and to compensate for fluctuations in compressed air. However, both companies retained their operational independence.
After overcoming the global economic crisis in the mid-1930s, the mine field Fritz in the southern part of the border with Krefeld was assigned to the Wilhelmine Mevissen mine for further exploration. In order to develop the western mine field and to improve the weather situation, and to shorten the long underground routes, planning of a weather shaft began in the mid-1930s. On June 1, 1937, work began on sinking a weather shaft in Rumeln , which was initially called the Fritz shaft ; it went into operation in 1938. The tried and tested freezing process was used again. This shaft was later named Schacht Rumeln . The hard coal mountains were opened up at 163.5 m in September. The sinking work was completed in May 1939.
At the beginning of March 1945, when the Allied forces withdrew before the approaching Allied forces, the outer shaft was made unusable by detonating units of the Wehrmacht . The shaft had to be rebuilt after the end of the war.
By 1949, the Mevissen I shaft was sunk to a depth of 750 m in order to be able to mine the coal reserves below the 4th level. In 1950 Schacht Rumeln went back into operation with a new headframe and renewed daytime facilities . He took over the central supply of materials and the ropeway for the mining strut , since otherwise only shaft Wilhelmine Mevissen 1 still had a conveyor system.
In 1952 the mining company Diergardt-Mevissen was converted into a stock corporation and from then on was called Diergardt-Mevissen Bergbau AG. The main shareholder was Mathias Stinnes AG, which in 1956 merged its mining division into the hard coal mines Mathias Stinnes AG. In this joint-stock company, the Rheinhauser pits became the Diergardt-Mevissen colliery group. In 1957, the breakthrough took place underground with Wilhelmine Mevissen, as the combination of the two pits was planned for the long term.
In 1957, Diergardt-Mevissen Bergbau AG undertook various measures to rationalize production . An underground breakthrough was made with the neighboring Diergardt colliery in order to enable the mines to be combined in the future. From 1959 to 1960, as an additional ventilation shaft in Kaldenhausen the Kaldenhausen wellbore has been drilled. In 1961 an anthracite coal washing plant was put into operation, which was expanded in 1970.
In 1967 the mine was assigned to the mine of the closed Diergardt mine for further dismantling . In 1968 the Diergardt-Mevissen Bergbau-AG became part of the newly founded Ruhrkohle AG . The Mevissen colliery was assigned to Bergbau AG Niederrhein .
In 1970 the annual production was 950,000 tons of coal. After the order situation improved significantly after the first coal crisis in 1970/1971 and the rationalization and mechanization projects were not unsuccessful, the year 1972 was a complete fiasco. The demand for house fire decreased rapidly. Since the remaining mine field also had severe geological disturbances, the management decided on November 30, 1972 to shut down the Mevissen colliery , which took place on June 30, 1973 with the last trip of the cage at 12:15 p.m.
A total of 34 million tons of coal were mined in the 61 years of operation. All employees who could not leave according to the social plan and adjustment measures were relocated to the Rheinpreußen and Niederberg collieries .
The shafts were filled and the systems demolished. On November 18, 1974, the headframe was blown up. Today there is a 16 hectare industrial area on the site of the 1/2 pit . There is no trace of the side shafts.
According to a newspaper report from 2017, a company is said to have been found that wants to develop mine gas from the Mevissenfeld.
See also
Web links
- Detailed information and floor plans for the Mevissen colliery
- Further details at Fördergerüst.de
- WAZ report on mine gas on the Mevissen site (report from April 1, 2017)
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
- Wilhelm Hörning: When the pulleys were turning in Rheinhausen ; in: Yearbook of the districts of the city of Duisburg on the left bank of the Rhine (Ed. Freundeskreis lively Grafschaft) Duisburg, 1984, pp. 68 ff, ISSN 0931-2137
- Friedrich Albert Meyer: The land acquisition of industry in the Rheinhauser area. (= Series of publications of the city of Rheinhausen, Volume 3.) 1965.
- Friedrich Albert Meyer: From the Ruhr over the Rhine. Rheinhausen's heavy industry. (= Series of publications by the city of Rheinhausen, Volume 4.) 1966.
- Contemporary witness exchange Duisburg: Duisburg mines in historical photographs , Sutton Verlag Erfurt, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95400-747-9