Colliery for Hope
| Colliery for Hope | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Colliery hope | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1623 | ||
| End of operation | 1805 | ||
| Successor use | United Hope Colliery & Secretarius Aak | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Hard coal | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 27 '11.7 " N , 7 ° 0' 19.3" E | ||
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| Location | Food center | ||
| local community | eat | ||
| Independent city ( NUTS3 ) | eat | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Ruhr area | ||
The Zeche Zur Hoffnung in Essen-Stadtmitte - Holsterhausen is a former coal mine . The mine was also known as the Hope Mine . The mine has a history of over 180 years. The Zur Hoffnung colliery was located in the area of the former Essen Abbey and was probably the oldest mine there.
history
The beginnings
Already in 1623 a " Kohlberg zur Hoffnung " was mentioned in the documents . The mine was a tunnel mine that drained the tunnel into the Sälzerbach by means of an Akeldruft . The Akeldruft was initiated at the source of this brook in Holsterhausen. In the same year a mining union was founded. This union consisted of the trades von Bermen, Doktor Wasserfurth et Konsorten and Diedrich Lipperheiden. The loan was made in the same year. In 1840 the trades took legal action against other coal works. In 1724, a new tunnel was built by other trades of the Society of the New Mountain. This tunnel was the actual tunnel of the Zur Hope colliery. This gallery was enfeoffed in 1733 by the abbess of the Essen monastery. In the same year, the tunnel, which had been laid out in 1724, was taken over. The Essen monastery admonished the trades to work on the Kohlberg, which had already been enfeoffed. This admonition was connected with the reference to withdrawal of the loan. Since no “good coal” had been found up to the year 1742, the trades had to constantly pay additional fines in the years that followed . For this reason, a request was made to the monastery to exempt the trades from paying tithes until they got on good terms. Since the mine was not operated in the following years, the Essen Abbey threatened the trades with withdrawing the loan if the mine was not operated again soon.
The other years
In 1759 the first tunnel, which was built in 1724, had meanwhile been charred. Since with the second tunnel a new tunnel had been created in the area of the city of Essen, the first loan was made by the city of Essen. Since the Hope Society had not paid a tithing to the Essen monastery for a long time, a lawsuit was filed by it. The trades justified their non-payment with the fact that they had been looking in vain for the seam on Mr. Bastian's property since 1755 . The trades were ready to pay tithing as soon as the seam was dismantled . In 1763 the mine was in poor condition. The trades justified this situation with the fact that the colliery had been standing on charred buildings for 30 years. After the abbess of the Essen monastery threatened to withdraw the loan, the mine was put back into operation. In 1766 the trades sent a request for a tithe discount to the city council of Essen. They justified this request by saying that the pits had been drunk and the costs for the tithe had been bought by themselves for years. The mine continued to operate. In the same year there was water ingress into the tunnel. On April 7th, 1768, the tenancy was renewed by the abbess to Georg Philipp Kaufmann. At that time, Kaufmann was the representative of the society of the cabbage factory Zur Hoffnung. In the following year, the city of Essen threatened to withdraw the loan. In the decade that followed, there were repeated problems between the mine operators and the Essen monastery or the city of Essen's magistrate.
In 1770, 30 miners were employed in the mine. After a water ingress, the mine was stopped again. After the water was removed from the tunnel, the mine was put back into operation the following year. In 1773, the City of Essen's magistrate gave the mine a new loan. In 1774 began, a so-called Despite shaft to sink . This shaft should serve to mine the better coals (top coals). On December 8, 1776, the abbess of the Essen monastery also renewed the enfeoffment. From 1784 the mine was in operation without interruption until 1803. In 1788, the first tunnel built in 1623 was finally abandoned. In 1796 was below the lug sole in Unterwerksbau dismantled. The trades now constantly had to pay additional fines. In 1802, the old tunnel from 1724 was mined again. 90 ringlets of hard coal were mined per day . The prospects for profits were getting worse and a deeper solution of the tunnel was not possible. In 1803 the mine was closed. After the secularization of the Essen monastery , the trades of Zur Hope endeavored to unite the mine with the neighboring Secretariusak mine . On February 19, 1805 , the Zur Hoffnung colliery consolidated with the Secretariusak colliery to form the United Hope & Secretarius Aak colliery .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l Joachim Huske : The coal mines in the Ruhr area. Data and facts from the beginning to 2005 (= publications from the German Mining Museum Bochum 144) 3rd revised and expanded edition. Self-published by the German Mining Museum, Bochum 2006, ISBN 3-937203-24-9 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr. 4th edition. Publishing house Karl Robert Langewiesche, successor Hans Köster, Königstein i. Taunus 1994, ISBN 3-7845-6992-7 .
- ↑ a b Gerhard Gebhardt: Ruhr mining. History, structure and interdependence of its societies and organizations. Verlag Glückauf GmbH, Essen 1957
Web links
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Zeche Zur Hoffnung (accessed on August 28, 2013)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Historical map around 1840 (accessed on August 28, 2013)
- Early mining on the Ruhr: Map of the situation around 2000 (accessed on August 28, 2013)