KWK “Gliwice” – formerly coal was fed there,
The areas of the former KWK “Gliwice” are a great example of how the buildings and mined areas should be developed, and the real decoration of the new Gliwice are the revitalized buildings of the former guild and engine room, which were designed by famous German architects: Emil and Georg Zillmann, the creators of Katowice Nikiszowiec and Giszowiec, as well as industrial buildings of electrical plants, as well Szombierki, “BOńCZYK” Shame engine room “Rozbark” or the buildings of the former “Biały Eagle” in Bytom.
Almost 100 years of history
The history of “Green Gleiwitzer” began in 1901, when 16 adjacent mining fields belonging to Wiliam Suermondt and groups of entrepreneurs from Rhineland were connected. The winding of the shafts began only in 1910, and the first ton of coal left the mine in 1912. In the years 1912-1914 buildings designed by Zillmann were also created: the guilds with a bathhouse, engine room and boiler room. In 1914, the mine was purchased by Akcyjna Oberschlesische Kokswerke und Chemische Fabriken, and in 1932 it was taken over by Borsig-Kokswerke GmbH
Archival photos:
AXIS. Industrie. Gleiwitzer thick, oberschlesien. Oberschlesische Landschaften, date of release: (before 1939), source: G 455_2/211 III, for the Silesian Public Library, public domain;
AXIS. Industrie. Gleiwitzer-Grube (Kokerei), Oberschlesische Landschaften, date of release: (before 1939), source: G 455_2/213 III, for the Silesian Public Library, public domain.
After 1945, the name of the mine from “Gleiwitzer Grube” to KWK “Gliwice” was changed, which belonged first to the Gliwice unification of the coal industry, and then the Zabrze unification of the coal industry. During the economic transformation, in 1993 KWK “Gliwice” was included in the Gliwice Spółka Węglowa, and the exploitation of hard coal was completed in the mine in 1999. A year later, in 2000, the mine was liquidated.
It is worth adding that the mining in the first period of the mine’s operation, i.e. in 1913, amounted to over 40,000. hard coal, and just before the outbreak of World War II in 1938 – over 831 thousand. tone. In 1970, mining reached a level of over 1 million tonnes of hard coal, in 1979 – record -breaking over 4.8 million tons.
Former -downed objects live again
The buildings and areas remaining after KWK “Gliwice” were developed at the Education and Business Center – Nowe Gliwice. Companies dealing with new technologies operate here, a restaurant, concerts, conforers, workshops and vernissages take place in the revitalized guild building, as well as in the former engine room of the “Gliwice” Coal Mine, built as well as the neighboring building in 1912-1914, there is an artistic department of the Museum in Gliwice. The museum presents products of the Prussian royal iron foundry, which was created in 200 summer in Gliwice.
Location:
Gliwice, Nowe Gliwice, District of Trynek, ul. Bojkowska 37.
