Wolff colliery
| Wolff colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Wolf Dent | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1796 | ||
| End of operation | 1809 | ||
| Successor use | by colliery Heinrich | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 24 '44 " N , 7 ° 4' 40" E | ||
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| Location | Überruhr / Holthausen | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The bill Wolff was a mine in Essen, whose Berechtsame in the area of the present town part Überruhr-Holthausen was.
history
1796-1802
The mine field was created in 1796 by amalgamating the previously independently operating Wolfsdelle and Hülscherfeld tunnels .
The latter bill dismantled circa mid-18th century through several tunnels and a tonnlägigen the upcoming in the workings shaft seam Geitling from. On February 15, 1796, the responsible union , which at that time consisted of 11 people, sold the entire mine property to the shift supervisor Johann Becker from Oberruhr (former name of Überruhr).
At that time, Becker was already working as a mining entrepreneur, because after he had stumbled upon a coal seam ( Kreftenscheer 2 ) on his property when he was sinking a water well in 1793 , he and other citizens from Oberruhr had founded a union with other citizens for the purpose of mining the coal deposits found. She let a seam running in the tunnels of the Ruhr from eastbound mount up , from which, after just over 100 m as propulsion length a cross-cut was set to the south. After purchasing the mine field of the union Hülscherfeld in 1796 it went from this cross-cut out a route to the east in this field on to the coal reserves from the digested there seam Geitling to degrade. An opposite and west be extended cleats stepped up to the embankment of the Ruhr to light.
The name of the mining company described last is very difficult to classify. In addition to the name "Wolff", other names appear in the sources: the mining in the Kreftenscheer 2 seam was described as "Wolf 2", while the mining in the Geitling seam was called "Wolf 4". At the turn of the century, the name "Wolfdelle" was also popular. Since there was no supervision by the mining authorities at the time, this could have been the reason for the different names.
1802-1809
On October 12, 1802, the Wolff union was registered with the newly established Prussian administration. At this point in time it consisted of a total of 8 trades . Around the middle of the following year, the breakthrough to the neighboring Hope mine took place in the mining of the Kreftenscheer 2 seam . First disputes about the course of the mine sheath with the union of the mine hope arose . From January 1804 until May, the mining operations had to be stopped due to high water in the Ruhr. Further operational difficulties arose when, shortly after operations resumed, mining in the Kreftenscheer 2 seam came to a standstill due to a fault . At first, mining was limited to the Geitling seam , until operations there ceased in November. In the meantime, the conveyor line from the Kreftenscheer 2 seam was broken and an application was made to the responsible mining authority to start a new tunnel to realign the seam in question . However, the union was refused permission for this project, which resulted in operations being closed at the end of 1804.
In May 1805, mining in the Geitling seam could be resumed after the mining authorities had appointed a new shift supervisor, and further mining began in October in the Kreftenscheer 2 seam . It is not certain whether the planned excavation of a new tunnel to align the seam was carried out. The trades, which during the time of operational difficulties Zubuße had to do, now hoped since the operation had come at both mining locations back on track, to yield . This expectation was not fulfilled, however, because the sources report outstanding wages and bonus payments that have not been made. Only after threatening draconian fines did the shift supervisor initiate the outstanding payments. But already around the turn of the year 1806/1807 the same picture emerged again. In April 1807, the entire workforce of the Wolff colliery lodged a complaint with the responsible mining authority because wages had not been paid since January.
At the end of 1808, coal mining only took place in the Geitling seam . The neighboring mine hope also built the same seam, but in the opposite direction. Both mining sites worked towards each other. On July 30, 1808, the inevitable breakthrough occurred, whereupon the old disputes of 1803 sprouted again, when a breakthrough of both mines was already being made in the Kreftenscheer 2 seam . The Mining Authority closed both mines and from then on worked on a union of the Wolff and Hope unions . These efforts were supported by Justus Heinrich Waldthausen (1767-1831), who was a trade union of both unions. However, negotiations on consolidating the two unions dragged on for several months. Only on September 24, 1809 could a contract be submitted, which was subsequently accepted by the trades of both companies. At the beginning of December this was confirmed by the mining authority. The new trade union, which was created through the merger of the two individual trade unions Wolff and Hope , was named Heinrich , for which the main trade union Justus Heinrich Waldthausen was probably the godfather with his name.
literature
- Heinrich Colliery Union: 125 years of Heinrich colliery union in Überruhr , Verlag Buchgewerbliche Anstalt Ernst Hilke, Essen-Kupferdreh 1934
Web links
- Michael Tiedt: Wolff Colliery. www.ruhrkohlenrevier.de, accessed on August 27, 2012 .