Colliery Wunderbar
| Colliery Wunderbar | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Funding / year | 14,000 t | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 58 | ||
| Start of operation | 1783 | ||
| End of operation | 1935 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 25 '44.8 " N , 7 ° 22' 19.1" E | ||
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| Location | Anne | ||
| local community | Witten | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Ennepe-Ruhr district | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Wunderbar colliery was a mine located south of Annen in the Borbach valley.
history
The Borbachtal was one of the first larger locations in the mining area on the Ruhr , as the hard coal came to light here and was accordingly easy to mine. However, the quality and supplies of the local coal were apparently limited. The operating life of the local mines was correspondingly short-lived, regardless of whether they mined in the 18th or 20th century, such as the Borbachtal colliery , for example . The Wunderbar colliery is an example of this.
First operational phase
The mining was excavated in 1783 as a tunnel . Although it reached a length of 70 meters within 1784, the mine did not live up to its name: The exploration proved to be unsatisfactory, the existing coal was mixed with overburden ("unclean" seam) Closure of the mine.
Reactivation in the 20th century
In 1933 the old mine was put into operation again. A new tunnel was opened and in 1934 58 employees extracted 14,000 tons of coal a year. The final shutdown took place in 1935.
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr (= The blue books ). 4th edition, unchanged reprint of the 3rd edition 1990. Langewiesche, Königstein im Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 , p. 292.