Eibenstock mining and soap educational trail
The Eibenstock mining and soap educational trail is an educational mining trail . It is located at Gerstenberg near the dam Eibenstock in the field of Eibenstock in Saxony Erzgebirge . Over a length of 2.5 km, the educational trail gives an insight into the historical tin and iron mining of the 15th to 17th centuries. The path symbol is a white square with a green band running diagonally from top left to bottom right.
history
Mining has been practiced in the area around Eibenstock probably since the 13th century . By acquiring the rule of Schwarzenberg by the Elector of Saxony and the elevation of Eibenstock to a free mining town promoted mining. The tin obtained from soaps was a coveted item of trade throughout Europe . A turning point in the Eibenstocker Bergrevier was the production of tinplate directly on site, introduced by Andreas Blau in 1537. If rock near the surface was washed at the beginning, the ore veins had to be followed into the rock from the 17th century . It was dismantled with a mallet and iron .
The educational trail
The mining nature trail is divided into 4 sections. In the first section you will learn interesting facts about soaps . Boards explain the activities in earlier times. Replicas of tools and aids show the necessary work steps in open-cast tin mining . The landscape is also evidence of the mining work in this area at the time , through Raithalden , dried-up moats and embankments. In the second part, which follows immediately, trenches can be seen. The light holes are well preserved and the historic timber construction can be seen in the water-filled pit "Holy Spirit". Here too, wooden mining aids were reproduced. A stamp mill is reproduced about 100 meters in the direction of Gerstenberg . Following the nature trail and crossing a branch of the Green Trench you come to the “Black Binge”. If the binge was previously filled with water, it has now been dried out since 1999 thanks to a sewer tunnel running underneath. The inclined shaft is a replica and shows the earlier mining of the ores . The fourth section is about 200 meters south of the B 283. At 700 meters, the "Allerheiligen Binge" is the largest preserved binge train in the green. Here there is a geological outcrop in the contact zone between granite and slate , a cross passage with various dike structures and several test digs. In addition to tin, iron and bismuth were mined here and processed on site. The structures on a light hole are replicas.
State of the nature trail
The educational boards and the replicas are badly weathered. For safety reasons, larger parts of the nature trail are currently closed (as of June 2018). It is planned to redesign the nature trail in 2019
Web links
- Ore Mountains: show mines, visitor mines, mining educational trail. In: westerzgebirge.com. Retrieved June 13, 2018 .
- Flyer
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www.freipresse.de/LOKALES/ERZGEBIRGE/AUE/Lehrpfad-zu-Bergbau-soll-neu-gestaltet-haben-artikel10207051.php
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 '42 " N , 12 ° 36' 12.9" E