Well-guarded mine

Well-guarded mine
	General information about the mine
	Colliery building from 1910
	Information about the mining company
Employees	243 (in 1943)
Start of operation	August 6, 1791
End of operation	September 30, 1962
Successor use	Cultural monument
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Hard coal
	Geographical location
Coordinates	51 ° 25 '47 " N , 7 ° 6' 27" E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '47 " N , 7 ° 6' 27" E
	Location Zeche Wohlverwahrt
Location	horst
local community	eat
Independent city ( NUTS3 )	eat
country	State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Country	Germany
District	Ruhr area

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The bill Wohlverwahrt was a coal - mine in Horst at the Ruhr , a district of Essen .

history

The first granting of the rights to the coal field took place on August 6, 1791. After the tunnel excavation and coal mining , operations were suspended between May 1821 and May 1, 1831. In 1842, the output of the Wohlverwahrt colliery was around 8,000 tons. It had a shaft that took several tons . In 1850 the company was stopped again. In 1857, the Geviertfeld was awarded the well-preserved. On January 18, 1858 there was a consolidation to the United Wohlverwart colliery . This included the coal mine Eiberg , after its closure in 1914 the Berechtsame was free again.

The Essen entrepreneur Wilhelm Vogelsang (1877–1939) acquired the colliery in 1910. In that year, the long colliery building that still exists today was built. Taking up the production in 1918/1919 above the newly constructed shaft initially failed due to the water inflow. In 1920 the production, which had just been resumed, amounted to around 10,000 tons with around 65 employees. In 1921, large parts of the river fell victim to flooding in the Ruhr, before production operations were stopped on March 1, 1923. After a complete shutdown on June 30, 1925, operations were inactive until 1937.

After Wilhelm Vogelsang's death in 1939, the colliery was taken over by his widow Antonie Vogelsang, nee. Weltmann continued together with their son Wilhelm Vogelsang II (1917–1995). A Seigerer shaft with a depth of 86 meters and a diameter of 3.8 meters was sunk in 1939. In 1940 the production amounted to 41,000 tons with 164 employees. In 1942 there was severe water ingress from old mine workings . In 1943, the largest production volume on Wohlverwahrt II was reached with almost 70,000 tons with 243 employees. She had five soles . In 1955 the output reached a second high of just under 65,000 tons with 237 miners .

The last 100 or so miners drove into the colliery on March 20, 1962, before production was stopped three days later due to the threat of water ingress. On September 30, 1962, the Wohlverwahrt colliery was finally shut down.

State today

Today the hall is still preserved, which had all functions such as shaft hall, extraction, laundry , briquette production , forge and chew . A private company that organizes canoeing and rafting tours has its headquarters here today. The building has been a listed building since 1989 and is part of theme route 12 of the Route of Industrial Culture .

literature

Günter Streich, Corneel Voigt : Mines, dominants in the area. History, present, future. With the Ruhr, Saar, Ibbenbüren districts. 1999. Nobel Publishing House. ISBN 3-922785-58-1
Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr
Joachim Huske: The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 1997. Bochum, 1998, 2nd revised edition. 1159 pages

Web links

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

Description of all locations on this themed route as part of the Route of Industrial Culture
Extract from the list of monuments of the city of Essen (PDF; 376 kB)