Wolfsbank colliery
| Wolfsbank colliery | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| End of operation | 1966 | ||
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| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 28 '21 " N , 6 ° 57' 35" E | ||
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| Location | Bochold | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Wolfsbank was a coal - mine in Essen - Bochold .
history
1838 to 1889
As early as the 1830s, several mining companies had struck gold in the area around Borbeck in search of minable hard coal reserves . The squire of Wolfshof in Schoenebeck 1838 founded a mining law union , which he called union Wolfsbank (derived from Wolf Hofer coals bench was).
In addition to the Wolfshof one was until 1839 pitting drilled . Due to the high-quality coal reserves found, the shaft was sunk further until 1844 and expanded to become a machine shaft. The colliery developed very promising economically, so the union was able to buy neighboring mine fields and connect them to the Wolfsbank colliery .
In 1850 the Wolfsbank 2 shaft was sunk in Bochold, two kilometers away . This shaft was intended as the new main shaft and was to be equipped with extensive treatment and processing systems.
However, the overburden here proved to be highly water-bearing, which meant that the sinking work had to be repeatedly interrupted by costly drainage measures. In 1855, the work of the devil had to be temporarily deferred because the Wolfsbank union had run out of funds . From 1857 work could be resumed. The shaft Wolfsbank 2 was 1,860 in funding and was a Malakoff tower equipped.
Nevertheless, the operating company had come into a financially tense situation due to the ten years of devastation, from which it could not fully recover.
1872 of bought Friedrich Grillo founded the same year Schalke mining and metallurgical Verein AG , the bill Wolf Bank together with the neighboring coal mine Neuwesel on. From 1875, a network between Wolfsbank 2 and the Neuwesel shaft was driven . In 1879 the Neuwesel shaft was finally connected as an outdoor facility.
In the same year, a coking plant was put into operation on Wolfsbank 2 .
1889 to 1943
In 1889 the Wolfsbank colliery with the Neuwesel shaft was sold to the Essener Bergwerks-Verein König Wilhelm AG . It integrated this together with the Christian Levin colliery and the Neu-Cöln colliery in a funding network in which the individual conveyor systems were retained.
After a firedamp and coal dust explosion with fatalities in 1892 , the Wolfsbank pits were subjected to a modernization program.
The old Wolfsbank 1 shaft with the southern field was dropped in 1896 . At the same time, shaft 2 was provided with a new headframe and a new shaft extension. In the long term, a new shaft should be sunk.
This was done from 1901 to 1904 with the new shaft 3 on the Wolfsbank 2 facility . The new shaft was equipped with a double conveyor. Furthermore, the coking plant was converted to the production of special foundry coke. The factory settlements of Bochold and Bedingrade , which were increasingly expanded in the vicinity of shaft 2/3, slowly merged the Borbeck district with the surrounding settlement areas.
From 1921 there was an interest group between the König Wilhelm colliery and the mining group of Gebr. Stumm GmbH . In 1936 they acquired the entire property of the Essener Bergwerks-Verein König Wilhelm AG and removed the Wolfsbank colliery from this association.
The annual production at that time was 690,000 tons of coal with a coke production of 172,000 tons of special foundry coke. 1750 people were employed.
1943 to 1966
In 1943 the Wolfsbank colliery and the remaining mining property of the König Wilhelm colliery were sold to Friedrich Krupp AG Bergwerke Essen . In the last years of the war the mine was badly affected by bombing raids.
After the reconstruction, the mine became the property of Bergwerke Essen-Rossenray AG as the successor company of Friedrich Krupp AG.
In 1954 the pit field of the Carolus Magnus colliery, which was closed in 1951, with the Carolus Magnus 1 and 2 shafts was taken over.
In the long term, it was decided to merge the former Krupp collieries to form a composite mine . Step by step, unprofitable mining operations were to be thrown off and the main funding concentrated on the Sälzer-Amalie colliery .
From 1956 there was a production connection from Wolfsbank 2/3 to Sälzer-Amalie , although production was also left on Wolfsbank , not least because of the continued production of the special foundry coke there. From 1961, the Wolfsbank and Sälzer-Amalie collieries were run as joint works management. In 1962 the Carolus Magnus construction site was finally abandoned and the Carolus Magnus 1 and 2 shafts filled .
The production reached almost one million tons annually with a coke production of 145,000 tons and 4500 employees in total.
Shutdown
The rationalization Association of the German coal industry coordinated in 1964 the closure of mining operations according to their cost-effectiveness and survivability.
For the Essen Krupp colliery it was no longer possible to guarantee sufficient survivability and marketability of the coal products.
Therefore, the Sälzer-Amalie and Wolfsbank conveyor systems, which had been independent until the end, were shut down in 1966. The special coking plant was deleted in the same year.
The shafts on Wolfsbank and Neuwesel were then filled and the daytime facilities completely demolished.
Interim use
After the shutdown, the mining equipment supplier EMIL WOLFF GmbH moved into the remaining halls in the area of the shaft system and manufactured there until 1988. In 1989 the site was rebuilt and an administration building was built by E.ON Ruhrgas , at that time still RUHRGAS AG - subsidiary RES - Ruhrgas EnergieSysteme GmbH, which still exists today.
For 10 years, over 300 combined heat and power units, turbine CHPs and fuel cell CHPs were produced in the halls at Wolfsbankring No. 38 , mainly with gas engines from WAUKESHA from Wisconsin . The company was later converted into EES - Erdgas -Energie-Systeme GmbH and sold to ABB AG.
From 2000 the production halls were demolished and a supermarket was built.
Current condition
The location of the Wolfsbank colliery , which in the almost 130 years of its existence has often been regarded as the economic heart of Borbeck, can be seen in an industrial park at the intersection of Bocholder Strasse and Wolfsbankstrasse. The edge of the old colliery area is interspersed with residential buildings. Small businesses have settled in the inner area. There, at the location of shaft 3, a large stone with a memorial plaque was erected in 1996. In Bochold, the Pookweg , which was previously called Knappenstrasse, reminds of Karl Pook, who was the colliery's upper material manager and who served it for almost sixty years. Born in Mülheim an der Ruhr in 1852 , Pook was also a long-time member of Borbeck's municipal council. He died in Borbeck in 1935 .
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