Brüxer sparkling wine
The Brüx bubble was a mineral spring west Bohemian city Brüx (today Most ) on the western edge of the reclaimed slag heap Kopistská výsypka . This source was as bicarbonate - Säuerling classified.
Creation and operation
To the north of the village of Kommern (even older: Kimmern) existed a natural source site, which is entered as a Sauerbrunnen on the military topographical map from the Josephinische Landesaufnahme (part of Bohemia, Section 37).
The establishment of the Brüxer Sprudel was the result of an exploratory drilling in February 1877 not far from this point. On February 4, drilling began west of the town of Tschausch and north of Kommern in the former Die See Wiese corridor . The hole has been drilled to a depth of 135.67 meters. In this detritus , Latvians layers , lignite seams and quartz sand and bottom gneiss debris found. At a depth of 127.4 meters, a water-bearing layer was developed which, thanks to its pressure, was able to produce independently. Because it was an artesian well and commercial use seemed promising, the bore was cased and called the Brüxer Sprudel . The city of Brüx acquired this spring and tried to use it for healing purposes. This expectation was met with only moderate success.
The Brüxer Sprudel has been recognized by the authorities as a healing spring and has been enclosed. In September 1878 the flow of water was interrupted several times for a period of 3 to 4 hours. Later, between May 21, 1879 and October 15, 1879, the amount of water pumped fell by almost half. The production volume continued to decline and finally the water level sank on February 16, 1882 to a depth of 32.2 meters. Shortly after this came down on the slope end surface of the main lignite seam from 58 meters. The water flow in this borehole was interrupted for about eight years.
In 1888 the company Kralik und Berndt sunk a new borehole at a distance of 2.5 meters and reached a depth of 145.6 meters. This attempt did not improve the situation. Nevertheless, on August 1, 1889, this company acquired the mining rights from the city of Brüx. On July 21, 1898 the production was stopped. The well was later removed by the progress of opencast mining in the region.
Mineral composition
According to a study by Wilhelm Friedrich Gintl (1877), the mineral composition of the water was as follows (milligrams per liter):
sodium carbonate 1472 mg / l
potassium carbonate 575 mg / l
calcium carbonate 424 mg / l
magnesium carbonate 90 mg / l
iron (II) carbonate 25 mg / l
lithium carbonate 0.27 mg / l
potassium sulfate 65.4 mg / l
potassium chloride 60.9 mg / l
silica 79.3 mg / l
org. Substance 30.7 mg / l
carbon dioxide 2502.8 mg / l
Geological situation
The wellbore is in the quaternary and tertiary sediments of the North Bohemian basin sunk Service. The situation responsible for the water pressure consists in the northern collapse of these sediment layers. At the time the well was operating, there were several underground mines on brown coal (Germania shaft, Saxonia shaft, Beust shaft) in the vicinity of the former villages of Kommern , Triebschitz and Tschausch. Their operators had taken appropriate technical precautions to drain these shafts.
literature
- Walter Carlé : The mineral and thermal waters of Central Europe. Geology, chemism, genesis . Stuttgart (Wiss. Verlagsgesellschaft) 1975, ISBN 3-8047-04611
- Josef Emanuel Hibsch : Explanations of the geological map of the area around Brüx . Prague (Nákladem Stát. Geologického ústavu ČSL. Rep.) 1929
Coordinates: 50 ° 32 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 13 ° 34 ′ 44.1 ″ E