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Johannes Shaft

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Johannes Shaft

Name: Johannes Shaft
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Location: Ruhr Region, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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September 14, 2024

Location: Junction of the Am Birkenwald road into the Am Ruhrort road

In 1870, the Vereinigte General & Erbstollen union sunk the Johannes shaft, a tonnage-height shaft, here in the area of the Am Birkenwald/Am Ruhrort/Waldweg road junctions in the Sonnenschein seam at 87.5 m above sea level. The Johannes shaft reached a shallow depth of 218 m. It went far below the bottom of the Erbstollen (No. 3), which was at a shallow depth of around 45 m. Mining took place on three deep mining levels, the third of which was at a shallow depth of 213 m. In this way, deep mining operations could also begin in the western part of the rights-of-way below the Erbstollen level in 1871. The Sonnenschein seam was referred to at the General mine as General No. 6, Wipsterz or Großebank. The coal extracted from the Sonnenschein, Wasserfall (General No. 6 or Große Nebenbank) and Angelika (General No. 7) seams in the Johannes shaft was transported to the Dahlhausen a. d. Ruhr station on the Generaler horse-drawn tram (plate 9). At that time, the General mine had a workforce of 812 men at its two Berger and Johannes shafts, from whom 152,700 tonnes of coal were extracted.

In 1875, operations had to be stopped again after heavy water ingress. The seams on the north wing of the Generaler Mulde were to be extracted from the Berger shaft (plate 25) in the future. However, this plan had to be abandoned soon, as significant problems with water management also occurred at the Berger shaft, which led to the closure of the Berger shaft in 1878.

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1. Animal Enclosure in Südpark – Avenue in Südpark loop from Wattenscheid-Höntrop

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