Dutch investors founded in 1855 the mining company Holland, to open up the mining fields Carl Reinhard, Adelbert, Hain, Anton Ernst and Wupperthal in the communities Ueckendorf and Wattenscheid. The consolidation of the pit fields under the name Holland took place in 1861. The shaft I in Ückendorf was sunk to the end of 1856 to a depth of 68 m into the Karbon and was in operation until 1963, shaft II also followed at 68 m in the same year and was abandoned in 1958. The Wattenscheider shafts III, IV, V and VI were drilled in 1873, 1898, 1907 and 1921, and abandoned because of exhaustion of coal in 1964, 1988 (shaft IV and VI) and already in 1935 (shaft V) and filled with overburden.
The highest coal production of the coal mine Holland took place in 1969 (when most shafts were already abandoned) with 1.7 million tons with a workforce of nearly 3000 employees. In the 1970s, Holland was merged with the colliery Zollverein to a composite mine, the land sales, even after completion of coal mining, was continued. The decommissioning of the entire plant was finally in the late 1980s.
Like many other industrial buildings in the Ruhr area, the facilities of the Zeche Holland were documented by the photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher. The winding towers of the Holland I / II colliery in Gelsenkirchen are Malakow towers (built 1856-1860) and have been preserved to this day, being the only double malakov tower in Europe. Today, apartments are housed in the towers.
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