Carl Funke Shaft Headframe

The headframe of the Carl Funke 1 shaft is one of the few structural relics of the Carl Funke colliery. This began operations in 1804 and was shut down in 1973.

The winding tower of the Carl Funke colliery is an excellent illustration of the landscape's past. Today a recreation and nature reserve, coal mining used to determine the landscape here.

"At the Baldeneysee, south of Heisingen, there was once the Carl Funke colliery, and on the concrete base of the existing scaffolding still standing in large letters is the name of the mine.
With a conveyor house from 1880 and a gatekeeper's house from 1920 at the end of the Carl-Funke-Straße, the conveyor framework together with the settlement is one of the last witnesses of mining in Heisingen. The mining rights for the many small tunnels forgiven at that time the abbot of Werden, because Heisingen belonged to the abbey area of ​​the imperial abbey Werden.

When in 1780 all 16 locks of the Ruhr were completed and thus a continuous coal transport on the river was possible, it was worthwhile for the local residents to mine coal commercially. From the mining in the tunnel you went in 1838 to civil engineering. 1870/71 was the merger of four Stollenzechen and three pits the "union Heisinger civil engineering". It was later, as well as the abgütufte from 1898 main production shaft, named after the significant entrepreneur and promoter of mining Carl Funke (1855-1912). The colliery was rebuilt under his leadership, which increased the production capacity. Until 1973, coal was mined, then the mine was shut down. All over-ground facilities except the mentioned relics were demolished.

In addition to the remainders of the overground facilities, there is also the colliery settlement, which was built from 1900 on both sides of the Carl-Funke-Straße. While above the road on a steep slope larger apartment blocks were built with spacious gardens, built on the opposite side of the street smaller four-family houses. Some houses are built in the so-called Heimatstil with half-timbered elements. The immigrants, who are often recruited in rural areas, should feel at home through this architecture and thus be tied to settlements and mines as long as possible.

In 2012, the climbing gym operator Mike Schuh bought the conveyor framework. He pledged to protect the monument from decay. The city of Essen approved its application for a change of use, which will allow for future accessibility of the scaffold. "Http://route-industriekultur.ruhr/themenrouten/12-geschichte-und-gegenwart-der-ruhr/zeche-carl-funke. html