Fastenberg
| Fastenberg | ||
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 Lookout tower on the Fastenberg 1894 |
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| height | 891 m | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '27 " N , 12 ° 41' 56" E | |
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The Fastenberg is a 891 m high mountain range in the Saxon Ore Mountains , which is divided into the Front, Middle and Rear Fastenberg and on the east side of which the mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt was created from 1654 . The state road leads from Johanngeorgenstadt to Eibenstock over the Hinteren Fastenberg .
Surname
The pastor and chronicler Johann Christian Engelschall writes about this in his Chronicle of Johanngeorgenstadt published in 1723:
“The place where the exiles turn. This would now be the so-called Fastenberg, on which anitzo Johann Georgenstadt built, whose name is said to come from the fact that at one point, when shooting on this mountain, a churfl. Wife felt a strong appetite for food, but after nothing or at least a little was available, said: That may be a real Fastenberg for me! "
history
An early mention of the mountain can be found in 1554 as Fastelbergk .
According to the Engelschall Chronicle, there were no more than two old mountain or forest houses on the Fastenberg before Johanngeorgenstadt was founded, and their owners built a mine .
A request made by Caspar Bernd and Christoph Meichsner on February 24, 1652 - two years before the city was actually founded - to the Saxon Elector Johann Georg I , shows that their grandparents were miners. They had operated a mine on the Fastenberg near the Bohemian border and built two collieries there to stay while working . Later the families of their grandfathers had settled there entirely. In addition, the chief forester von Burkhardtsgrün had assigned them a territory where they could keep their cattle.
Bernd and Meichsner now officially wanted to stay in the forest houses inherited from their parents and renovate them structurally. However, because many tree stumps had to be cleared in the wilderness, pits and hills had to be leveled and no grain ripened due to the harsh climate, they asked the elector for lumber to be given without the usual forest rent. On March 2, 1652, Elector Johann Georg I of Saxony granted this request.
These two forest houses the fast mountain joined after 1651 at the foot of the lower reaches of the width of the stream , the grinding mill of from plates originating exiles Matthew Weigel. The two miners from Platten, Johann Poppenberger and Melchior Horbach, built two houses above this mill . They had received permission from the Elector of Saxony on May 12, 1652.
The foundation stone for a larger settlement was thus laid before 1654. Almost two years later, the majority of the exiles from the Bohemian plateau settled on the Saxon side on Fastenberg and founded Johanngeorgenstadt.
Not far from the highest point of the Fastenberg, an 18 m high wooden observation scaffold was erected by the Erzgebirgszweigverein Johanngeorgenstadt in 1881, but it was dismantled in 1893 because of dilapidation and not rebuilt.
Mining
Soon after the immigration of the exiles, extensive mining of silver , tin , bismuth , cobalt and iron began on Fastenberg . At the beginning of the 18th century in particular, there was a little mountain screaming . During this time, several hundred speculations were made in individual years , but the pits were often soon closed again. For the numerous treasure troves include u. a. Angelic joy and happiness on Stolln . Ultimately , the seven most important mines merged to form United Feld im Fastenberg in 1838 .
After the Second World War that were mine workings by the SAG bismuth for uranium - extraction again aufgewältigt . Object 01 , created in January 1946, was Wismut's first production facility. After a short, intensive phase, as a result of which the old town of Johanngeorgenstadt was largely destroyed, mining ceased in 1958.
literature
- Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the exiles and mountain town Johanngeorgenstadt . Lanckisch, Leipzig 1723 ( books.google.de ).
- Friedrich Francke: On the founding history of Johanngeorgenstadt . Communications from archival sources. In addition to the church lectures held at the 200th anniversary celebrations on February 23 and 24, 1854. Schumann, Schneeberg 1854, p. 68, XXIV ( books.google.de ).
- Frank Teller : Mining and mining town Johanngeorgenstadt (1654–1945) . Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt, Johanngeorgenstadt 2001, DNB 994862083 , p. 296 .
Web links
- Jörg Brückner: From Waldhäusler on the Fastenberg. Retrieved February 19, 2012 .