Wenceslaus mine
Wenceslaus Mine | |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| Location | Mölke |
| Voivodeship | Lower Silesian Voivodeship |
| Country | Poland |
| Coordinates | 50°37′39″N 16°29′37″E / 50.62750°N 16.49361°E |
| Production | |
| Products | Bituminous coal |
| Production | 564,966 t |
| Financial year | 1912 |
| Type | Underground |
| Greatest depth | 350 m |
| History | |
| Opened | 1768 |
| Closed | 1939 |
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The Wenceslaus Mine (Wenceslaus-Grube, also Wenzeslaus-Grube) was a bituminous coal mine in Mölke, now part of Ludwikowice Kłodzkie, in Lower Silesia. It belonged to the Neurode (now Nowa Ruda) coal district and developed into the largest colliery in the Neurode field before the First World War. The mine is chiefly remembered for the carbon-dioxide disaster of 9 July 1930 at the Kurt Shaft near Hausdorf (Jugów), in which 151 miners were killed.