Wulfen colliery
| Wulfen colliery | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | 900,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1963 | ||
| End of operation | 1970 | ||
| Successor use | Association with the neighboring mine, Fürst Leopold | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 43 '14.7 " N , 7 ° 3' 25.8" E | ||
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| Location | Wulfen | ||
| local community | Dorsten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Recklinghausen | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The bill Wulfen was a coal mine in Dorsten district Wulfen .
history
Preparation and depth
At the beginning of the 20th century, in the border area between the Ruhr area and Münsterland, extensive minefield properties were acquired by various companies and in some cases by new unions in order to be able to be opened up as a connection system in the future.
In the area north of the Lippe between Dorsten and Haltern several individual unions were founded, including the Wulfen I and Wulfen II unions of the Stinnes union . The name of the mine field was given after the village of Wulfen, under whose area most of the mine field lay.
In 1938, the Mülheimer Bergwerks-Verein acquired several unions that were affiliated with the Wulfen union and brought them together under the name of Wulfen colliery . It was intended to create an independent conveyor system with two equal shafts on a green meadow . Due to problems with the allocation of ownership, the final consolidation could not yet be completed. The start of the expansion work was delayed again and again.
It was not until 1956 that both the Mathias Stinnes trade union and the Mülheimer Bergwerks-Verein became part of the Mathias Stinnes AG hard coal mine . As a result, the entire field ownership was now in the hands of one company. This began in 1956 in Dimker Heide with the preparatory work for the freezing process for shaft 1. From 1958, shaft 2 was sunk next to shaft 1 . The new town of Wulfen with up to 60,000 inhabitants was planned for the planned 8,000 employees north of the mine site ; today the district is known as Wulfen-Barkenberg and has around 12,000 inhabitants.
Despite the onset of the coal crisis , the sinking work was continued. In 1963, the final depth was reached in both shafts . The daytime facilities were initially set up temporarily. Both shafts received only provisional conveyor systems instead of the planned large solid-wall double-headed conveyor frames. The production rose to 900,000 t annually until 1968.
Composite
In 1968 the Wulfen colliery became part of the Ruhrkohle AG and was incorporated into the Mining AG Herne / Recklinghausen department . Due to the overall adjustment plan of Ruhrkohle AG, it was immediately planned to merge the colliery with one of the neighboring plants to form a more efficient network. Because this with the Brassert colliery seemed unrealistic due to unfavorable geological conditions and the nearby Auguste Victoria colliery belonged to the BASF Group and not to Ruhrkohle AG, an association with the neighboring Fürst Leopold colliery was decided in 1970 . From then on, the shafts were used as the outer shafts of the Fürst Leopold / Wulfen mine .
The mine initially dismantled the Zollverein 7/8 seam and only later the overlying seams of the Zollverein group. The reason for this unusual mining sequence was the high methane outgassing in the previously unscratched mine field. In the mid-1970s, the Wulfen site was threatened with abandonment. Then, however, a number of viable seams above the previous mining areas were opened up and mining could continue into the year 2000.
Wulfen 2 shaft received a new steel box double-headed conveyor frame in 1979 and the system was expanded to become a central material and cable car system. In 1981 the complete funding network was established through a 7.5 km long stretch between Wulfen and Prince Leopold. Shaft 1 was expanded into a central cableway shaft in 1988 and received a steel box frame with four- rope conveyance .
In the 1990s, the Wulfen 3 shaft was planned between Wulfen 1/2 and Fürst Leopold 1/2. The strained coal economy brought this planning to a standstill.
Shutdown
By the entrance of the mine Fürst Leopold / Wulfen in the mine lip the construction site Wulfen since 1998 gradually been abandoned. The shafts were in November and December of 2000 filled .
This was followed by the complete demolition of the mine.
literature
- "Mine Fürst Leopold / Wulfen 1913–1993": 80 years of coal mining in Dorsten. Dorsten 1993.
- Wilhelm and Gertrude Hermann: The old mines on the Ruhr. Past and future of a key technology. With a catalog of the "life stories" of 477 mines. (= The Blue Books ). 6th edition, expanded to include an excursus according to p. 216 and updated in parts relating to energy policy. Langewiesche publishing house, Königstein i. Ts. 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 (after the 5th, completely revised and expanded edition 2003, post-processing 2002: Christiane Syré, final editing 2007 Hans-Curt Köster).