Dorothea Treasure Trove
Dorothea was a mine mainly for silver on the Hinteren Rabenberg in the mining district Johanngeorgenstadt in the western Ore Mountains on the corridor of today's municipality of Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb.
history
The mine, suspected in the 18th century , initially consisted of a treasure trove and an eruption on the east side of the Hinterer Rabenberg. The Stollnmundloch was not far from the Ortbach, now known as the Great Ortsbach . At the end of the 18th century, mining developed by driving a second tunnel to open up the eastern part of the Rabenberg. The merger with the Receiving Glück Fundgrube, Trost in Not Fundgrube, Abraham Fundgrube, Regina Fundgrube and Osterfreude Fundgrube was abandoned after a few years.
Under the Johann George townspeople shift supervisors Gottlob Traugott Gündel (1775-1843) were the depth and Upper Dorothea Stolln together with the Valerian treasure trove , the Regina treasure trove and dimensions, the Easter joy mine and Charles treasure trove of him awarded , which from 1818 this mining company's name Valerian Treasure Trove .
In 1884/8 the hat house of the Valerian treasure trove, popularly called in memory of the old name Dorothee, was demolished. After the Second World War, Wismut AG overhauled the old mine workings and operated the 336 shaft management here .
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- Saxon State Archives , 40169 mine files of the Schwarzenberg mining district (with Eibenstock, Hohenstein, Johanngeorgenstadt, Oberwiesenthal, Scheibenberg, Schneeberg and Voigtsberg), No. 1781