Anna Michaelis Colliery
The Anna-Michaelis-Zeche , also called Anna-Michaeli-Zeche or Anna-Michael-Zeche , was a mining facility on the corridor of the Potůčky (Breitenbach) municipality in what is now the Czech Republic in the former Platten district in the Bohemian Ore Mountains .
location
The colliery was east of Potůčky in the direction of Brettmühl on the slope between the Schwarzwasser and the Sandfelsberg at an altitude of approx. 725 m above sea level. NHN .
history
The reduction on the Kingdom of Bohemia located Anna Michaelis mine began in 1884. After eleven years was abandoned in 1895 promotion.
In June 1906, therapeutic radioactive baths against rheumatism were administered to the disused Anna-Michaelis colliery . According to advertising at the time, the radioactive source should also be suitable for drinking cures against various diseases. The three property owners, Baron Hans von Morsey-Picard (owner of the Fortuna trade union Schwarzenberg), Dr. Hackländer and Johann Thumann from Kassel hoped to have created the beginnings of a spa and bathing resort. This hope was not fulfilled. Other radium baths such as Oberschlema or Bad Brambach flourished at that time, the spa between Breitenbach and Brettmühl , which is located away from the tourist flows, did not get beyond its first beginnings. After a short time, attempts to set up a spa and bathing establishment in the remoteness of the upper Ore Mountains were given up due to the absence of spa guests.
During the First World War , the Anna-Michaelis-Zeche was operated by FO Nitzsche from Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. resumed on a small scale. Mining was mainly carried out on the Annagang, which led about 10 cm thick , solid bismuth. In 1917 Wiener Österreichische Metallhüttenwerke GmbH acquired the colliery site and began collecting the radioactive water that escaped. Bismuth mining came to a standstill during the first Czechoslovak Republic. After the annexation of the Sudetenland by Germany, mining was resumed in 1942. After the end of the war , uranium was searched for in the mine without success . About-day all remains of the mine have been removed and the holes filled , so that they are barely visible even in the field today.
Dismantling
In the Anna-Michaelis-Zeche, approx. 13 t of bismuth were extracted from quartz veins in the first operating phase.
literature
- Journal for practical geology with special consideration of the deposit customer. 1905, pp. 110-111.
- Austrian magazine for mining and metallurgy . Volume 54, p. 517.
- Philipp Weigel : Saxon Siberia: its economic life. 1907, p. 61.
- Fritz Ullman: Encyclopedia of Technical Chemistry. Vol. 12, Urban & Schwarzenberg 1923, p. 85.
- Fritz Ulmann: Encyclopedia of technical chemistry. Vol. Ink to Zündwaren, Urban & Schwarzenberg 1943, p. 507.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Fritz Ullman: Encyclopedia of Technical Chemistry , Vol. Ink to Zündwaren, 1943, p. 507.