Büsbacherberg-Brockenberg ore mine

The ore mine Büsbacherberg and Brockenberg mined an ore deposit southeast of the Stolberg district of Büsbach until 1889 . The corridors approached were named Gang am Liester , Gang am Sandloche , Gang am Luziliaschacht and Gang am Lillaschacht . The mine building with machine house, erected around 1850 directly next to the Lillaschacht, still stands today at the level of Brockenberg and is used as a residential building.

In pre-industrial times, the extraordinarily rich calamine stores were largely dismantled for the production of brass by the copper masters . The then created here Ping had according to the size of the pending orebody vast expanses, where the Hauptpinge m dimensions of 200 × 80 and a maximum depth reached 40 meters.

In October 1830 the mine was re-licensed and operated by the limited partnership Bredt & Co. since 1847. Allianz was the sole owner from its foundation in 1851 . In 1846, starting from the valley floor of the Vichtbach , a tunnel was set up, which should open up new ore resources and enable the inflowing pit water to be drained off. This tunnel reached a length of 310 m. At the same time, two shafts , the Luziliaschacht (80 m depth) on the Büsbacherberg (former premises of the now closed company Wimmer on Bischofstrasse) and the Lillaschacht (53 m depth) on the Brockenberg were sunk. However, it turned out that the deposit was not worth building and the expansion of the pit was abandoned after considerable financial losses. This was the main reason for the dissolution of the alliance. Thereafter, the Stolberger Gesellschaft took over the mine operation and acquired all shares in the Büsbacherberg mine by 1869. At that time, Brauneisenstein was the main production product. The mining operations were stopped in 1889. In 1935 the community of Büsbach and thus also the site of the mine came to Stolberg.

Coordinates: 50 ° 44 ′ 58.3 "  N , 6 ° 13 ′ 50.9"  E