Large depot:

the shaft hall was a distribution for ore, material, equipment and miners.

A lot of space required in the shaft hall

The shaft hall was 56 metres long, 12.50 metres wide and 10 metres high. The steel skeleton structure enclosed the lower third of the headframe.

The balustrades of the outer walls were designed with visible brickwork on the outside and were flanked by an equally high door on each side of the hall; the engine room had a separate door, and a spacious series of windows ran almost all the way around the top of the entire hall. The roof panels consisted of pumice concrete planks inserted between the steel beams, which were covered with bitumen sheeting on top.

The floor of the shaft hall had a total area of 700m², 290m² around the headframe which is still preserved today. The 110m² machine room for the winding machine was separated from the original area of the hall - at the bottom left of the plan. The headframe with its three flights of stairs to the galleries and the two projecting support pylons took up a considerable area of the remaining 590m² of the hall. The remaining area in the main room of the shaft hall, where it was not occupied by the tracks, was used as a vehicle traffic and storage area.

For example, at shift changeover, the 130 or so miners travelling out after the shift encountered just as many miners travelling into the shaft for the shift. Furthermore, the track-free traffic area was used by transport vehicles with pneumatic tyres

Tracks for transporting goods

Five narrow-gauge tracks with a track gauge of 600 millimetres and a total length of 130 metres, including four points, were laid inside the shaft hall. Neither the rails nor the points have been preserved, but 21 sleepers have.

Two tracks ran towards the conveyor frames at the front and two tracks ran from the conveyor frames at the rear. All four tracks were connected to the fifth track, which ran past the right-hand side of the pit frame through the entire hall and out of the hall on both gable ends.

On the outside, a track ran parallel to the present-day Dr Fritz-Pickel-Straße, the street right next to the hall. A section of it is still preserved.

Conveyor belts for container transport

The skip vessels arriving above ground and filled with ore were automatically emptied at the rear of the headframe at a height of around five metres. The ore first slid onto an inclined conveyor belt and fell from there into the chute above the ore crusher. The crushed ore fell onto another conveyor belt at the bottom, which transported the ore out of the hall at ground level.

From there, in the open air, the ore travelled above ground on an enclosed raised conveyor belt to the top of the ore bunker.

This system for conveying the ore and the corresponding attachments to the conveyor frame were removed during the demolition of the shaft hall.