Eleonora Stolln
Eleonora was an Erbstolln in the Johanngeorgenstadt mountain area in the Saxon Ore Mountains .
location
On the middle Fastenberg , on which Johanngeorgenstadt extends, several pits were operated for the extraction of directly adjacent ore veins . This also included Eleonora Stolln, suspected in 1715, on the northern outskirts of Johanngeorgenstadt. The tunnel was cut at 761 m above sea level. It had roughly the same course as the Adolphus Stolln and also drained the same pits ( Silberkammer , Gotthelf Schaller , Catharina , Elisabeth , the Three Kings and the Lorenz brothers ). In 1828/29 the Erzengler shaft was again except for theEleonora Stolln and the bismuth mining started in the next few years. However, this period was short-lived. The mining in the fields opened up by the tunnel was subsequently meaningless. The tunnel itself was operated until 1852. The westernmost point of the tunnel field was the mine field of Archfather Jacob in the area of the later bismuth shaft 121. The total length of the tunnel was approx. 5.8 km.
In addition to the Adolphus Stolln , the Eleonora Stolln also served as the water supply for Johanngeorgenstadt. In 1783, the town had the mining authority lend the tunnel water . A 1070 m long wooden water pipe was built from the mouth hole of the Eleonora tunnel to the water reservoir on the market. Since the gradient was only 3.5 m, the pipe quickly became muddy. From 1883 onwards, parts of the line were replaced by cast iron pipes, but it was not until 1905 that the entire line was made of iron pipes. In 1922 the city bought Eleonora Stolln's hat house .
From the acquisition of mining concessions by the object 01 of the bismuth AG in 1946, the mine fields of the Stollns were affected. The old tunnel was of no importance for the bismuth due to its small cross-section. A few meters south of the old mouth hole, a new tunnel (Eleonora new or shaft 61) was built in 1948 at 763.3 m above sea level. When the new tunnel was excavated, the old Eleonora tunnel was penetrated several times and thus destroyed, so that it could no longer be used for the city's drinking water supply. The pit field was opened up on a large scale with many corridors, field stretches and cross passages under the designation 80 m bottom. The blind shaft 290 with a cross-section of 18.7 m 2 was also the largest shaft in the deposit on the bottom of the tunnel. The new Eleonora tunnel was equipped with contact wire so that catenary locomotives could be used here. In 1948, shaft 54, internally named Eleonora, was sunk in front of the mouth hole. Mining on the 80 m level was stopped in 1952. The shaft 290 was still in operation until 1957.
The hut house and the Stollnmundloch were removed around 1950 with the construction of the stockpile railway and the spreading pile dump. The hut house was rebuilt in a similar form at the Pferdegöpel in 1993.
At the end of 2015, not far from the tunnel, extensive work began on the fundamental redesign of the heap towards the Kleinhemmpel curve.
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literature
- Otfried Wagenbreth et al .: Mining in the Ore Mountains. Technical monuments and history . Ed .: Otfried Wagenbreth, Eberhard Wächtler . 1st edition. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-342-00509-2 , p. 293 .
- Frank Teller: ABC of the Johanngeorgenstadt mines. In: News bulletin and gazette for Johanngeorgenstadt and the surrounding area. 1993.
- Frank Teller : Mining and mining town Johanngeorgenstadt . Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt eV, Johanngeorgenstadt 2001.
- Frank Teller: change, change, change . Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt eV, Johanngeorgenstadt 2009.
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 7.6 " N , 12 ° 43 ′ 11.3" E