Mining (municipality of Hohentauern)

Mining ( settlement )
	Basic data
Pole. District , state	Murtal (MT), Styria
Judicial district	Judenburg
Pole. local community	Hohentauern ( KG Hohentauern)
Locality	Hohentauern
Coordinates (K)	47 ° 26 '47 " N , 14 ° 27' 53" E Coordinates: 47 ° 26 '47 " N , 14 ° 27' 53" E
height	1181 m above sea level A.
Building status	3 (2019 )
	Statistical identification
Counting district / district	Hohentauern (62010 000)
	Mining addresses ; Source: STAT : Directory of places ; BEV : GEONAM ; GIS-Stmk ; (K) Coordinate not official

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Mining is a miners' settlement in the municipality of Hohentauern in Styria.

location

The small town is located northwest of Hohentauern on the eastern slope of the Lärchkogel in a valley on the Sunkbach , which is called Sunk .

history

The Sunk is an old magnesite and graphite mining area, which is first documented around 1640, and was intensified in the 19th century for steel production and was processed in the shoot . Due to the exposed location of the mining industry, a small settlement soon developed, which was also expanded with the beginning of industrialization and the expansion of mining. The first workers 'apartments in the Sunk were six two-story log houses in the form of workers' barracks for 97 workers. The barracks were only covered with boards and the joints were covered with moss. For unmarried miners, boys ' houses with simple furnishings were built. At the beginning of the 20th century a cable car was built through the Sunk.

With the later separation of the residential units of employees and workers, this differentiation also moved into residential construction. Today's mining settlement, right by the town of Hohentauern , was built in the 1960s and consists of single-family houses with a gable roof and an associated garden for growing vegetables. The construction plans were made available to the miners willing to build by the mining company, which resulted in a uniform house type in the settlement.

Mining was stopped in 1991, today there are only a few buildings here, the actual miners' settlement has been abandoned. The story is documented in the mining museum in the Hohentauern parish hall.

In July 2013, magnesite mining was resumed on a trial basis.

literature

Joannea Geology & Paleontology 3, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz 2001:
- Karl-Heinz Krisch: The story of the break in the sinking. Pp. 5-43 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
- Alois Leitner: On the folk culture of the magnesite mining Hohentauern / Sunk. Pp. 45-62 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
- Fritz Ebner, Walter Prochaska: The Sunk / Hohentauern magnesite deposit and its geological framework. Pp. 63-103 ( pdf , museum-joanneum.at).
D. Möhler: The Sunk magnesite deposit near Hohentauern and its minerals. In: The iron blossom. Special volume 2/81, 1981.

Individual evidence

↑ Lit. Krisch 2001, p. 5.
↑ Lit. Krisch 2001, p. 6.
↑ ^a ^b Lit. Leitner 2001, Wohnen und Siedeln , p. 51 ff.
^ Gerhard Karl Lieb, Wolfgang Sulzer: Regional geographic aspects of the pass landscape of Hohentauern. In: Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Steiermark Volume 122 (1992), p. 60, full article, p. 49–63 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; there p. 12).
↑ Lit. Krisch 2001, p. 36.
↑ The Mining Room - Mining Museum in Hohentauern. In: steirischemuseen.at.
↑ Mining resumed in Hohentauern. In: ORF.at, July 15, 2013.

[Krisch_2001_5-1] Lit. Krisch 2001, p. 5.

[Krisch_2001_6-2] Lit. Krisch 2001, p. 6.

[Leitner_2001_51ff-3] Lit. Leitner 2001, Wohnen und Siedeln , p. 51 ff.

[Lieb,Sulzer_1992-4] Gerhard Karl Lieb, Wolfgang Sulzer: Regional geographic aspects of the pass landscape of Hohentauern. In: Mitteilungen des Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein für Steiermark Volume 122 (1992), p. 60, full article, p. 49–63 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ; there p. 12).

[Krisch_2001_36-5] Lit. Krisch 2001, p. 36.

[6] The Mining Room - Mining Museum in Hohentauern. In: steirischemuseen.at.

[7] Mining resumed in Hohentauern. In: ORF.at, July 15, 2013.