Abandoned Zeche W. (Part 1)

Abandoned Zeche W. (Part 1)
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Visited on: 25/11/2021 - 26/02/2023
Country: Germany

At the beginning of the 20th century, the Prussian state acquired several large mining fields in the northern Ruhr area and southern Münsterland. The Bergwerks-AG Recklinghausen was founded, the majority of which was owned by the state. From 1905, this was managed in personal union by Hibernia AG .

In 1902, mine field properties under Gelsenkirchen-Buer and Westerholt were consolidated to form the Buer coal mine. In 1903, north of Buer, the sinking of the Bergmannsglück 1/2 double shaft was started.


Sinking towers of the Westerholt mine around 1909/10
In 1905 the fiscal mining field possessions were divided into mining inspections. The name Berginspektion 3 was assigned to the Buer coal mine. In 1907, on the border between Buer and Westerholt, the sinking of the separate Westerholt 1/2 hoisting shaft began because the Prussian state basically wanted to equip every fiscal mine inspection department with two hoisting systems.

The colliery went into operation in 1910 and was equipped with two German strut scaffolding. In 1912 a coking plant was put into operation.

The pit developed very promisingly from an economic point of view. As early as 1920, the limit of 1 million tons of annual production was exceeded.

In 1925, mining inspection 3 was dissolved and continued as an independent Westerholt colliery. In 1927 the colliery and the entire property of Bergwerks-AG Recklinghausen became the property of Hibernia AG.

In 1929, the coking plant was expanded because it was to be used for the coking of coal from Westerholt and Bergmannsglück. Shaft 1 was provided with a new full-wall headframe with double hoisting.

wrist shaft 1
wrist shaft 1
Polsum 2 mine (2010)
Polsum 2 mine (2010)
Towards the end of the 1930s, Hibernia AG tackled the construction of an independent conveyor system in the Polsum field to the north of Westerholt. In 1941 the sinking of the Polsum 1 shaft began in the Polsumer Mark.

The ongoing events of the war brought work to a standstill in 1943. After the Second World War, the Polsum field was connected to the Westerholt colliery. The Polsum 1 shaft was further sunk, but not as a separate conveyor system, but as an external shaft for Westerholt. In 1949 this shaft went into operation.

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