Mining educational trail

A mining educational trail (sometimes also a mining hiking trail ) is an educational trail that usually deals with the mining history of a district , a region or a mine . There are educational mining trails in many of Germany's former mining regions .

Mining educational trails are usually set up by local traditional mining associations in cooperation with the respective communities and then supervised by the associations.

Station 15 of the Schedewitz-Oberhohndorf mining trail run by the Zwickau eV coal mining association: Frisch-Glück-Schacht I of the Oberhohndorfer Schader coal-mining association. Sign board. Oberhohndorf, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany.

Schachtbinge of the Frischglückschachtes

Mostly they consist of different stations, which are explained by display boards and relate to material witnesses of the past mining. These can be existing buildings, heaps, railway embankments and the like.

Often the witnesses and display boards are the subject of vandalism.

Individual evidence

^ Vandalism on hiking trails in Frohnau. In: hitradio-rtl.de. April 7, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .
^ Vandalism on hiking trails in Frohnau and on the Pöhlberg. City of Annaberg-Buchholz, March 2015, accessed on August 24, 2017 .
↑ Stefan Gehre: Peace made. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. February 26, 2005, archived from the original on May 26, 2015 ; accessed on August 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2
↑ Winter hike along the Grüner Graben to Wildenthal. In: History from Eibenstock. unbekannter-bergbau.de, February 2013, accessed on August 24, 2017 .
↑ Sabrina Krieger: Geological history to touch . The geology of the Harz Mountains, reworked to include geotouristic possibilities and facilities using the example of the geological nature trails in the Harz Mountains. Diplomica, Hamburg 2002, p. 1 (126 pp., Excerpt [accessed on August 24, 2017]).

Web links

Commons : Mining Educational Trail - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ore Mountains: show mines, visitor mines, mining educational trail. In: westerzgebirge.com. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .

[1] Vandalism on hiking trails in Frohnau. In: hitradio-rtl.de. April 7, 2017. Retrieved August 24, 2017 .

[2] Vandalism on hiking trails in Frohnau and on the Pöhlberg. City of Annaberg-Buchholz, March 2015, accessed on August 24, 2017 .

[3] Stefan Gehre: Peace made. (pdf) (No longer available online.) In: Westfälischer Anzeiger. February 26, 2005, archived from the original on May 26, 2015 ; accessed on August 24, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2

[4] Winter hike along the Grüner Graben to Wildenthal. In: History from Eibenstock. unbekannter-bergbau.de, February 2013, accessed on August 24, 2017 .

[5] Sabrina Krieger: Geological history to touch . The geology of the Harz Mountains, reworked to include geotouristic possibilities and facilities using the example of the geological nature trails in the Harz Mountains. Diplomica, Hamburg 2002, p. 1 (126 pp., Excerpt [accessed on August 24, 2017]).