Festenburger Stollen
| Festenburger Stollen | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General information about the mine | |||
| other names | Deep Festenburg tunnel | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Joint union of the mines involved, tax authorities | ||
| Start of operation | before 1569 | ||
| End of operation | 1805 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | |||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 51 ° 49 '56 " N , 10 ° 23' 48" E | ||
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| Location | Oberschulenberg | ||
| local community | Clausthal-Zellerfeld | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Goslar | ||
| country | State of Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Upper Harz Gangerzrevier, Festenburg-Schulenberg area | ||
The Festenburger Stollen or deep Festenburger Stollen was a water solution tunnel for the natural drainage of the pit water of the mines on the Bockswieser Gangzug (formerly also Bockswiese-Festenburg-Schulenberger Gangzug ) in the Festenburg - Schulenberg area .
The mouth hole was in the St. Urban pit in Oberschulenberg , northwest of the Oberschulenberg colliery house .
History and technology
The Festenburger tunnel was excavated from 1559 onwards in its field " sampt dem Erbstolln " during the operating time of the mine Immortal Gift of God and Rich Society at the schools mountain . The tunneling work proceeded quickly in the " cutting rock " for the conditions at the time. At the end of the first mining period in Schulenberg-Festenburg after 1591, 875 meters had already been completed. The tunnel location was deferred 65 meters west of the White Swan mine .
After the resumption of mining in the Festenburger Revier (1666), the tunnel was re-occupied in 1710 and an extension to a total length of 3600 meters into the area of Hahnenklee-Bockswiese was considered. There he would have brought a depth of 74 meters in the Duke Anton Ulrich shaft and contributed to solving the dewatering problems there . However, the work came to a standstill 200 meters behind the White Swan mine for reasons that are not known to us. Eventually, the Festenburger tunnel through the 60 meters below was depths school Berger studs able enterbt, which after 1730 also reached the shafts of the pit White Swan. In Bockswiese, a sustainable water solution could only be achieved with the completion of the Lautenthaler Hoffnungsstollen Lage in 1799. Until then, there were repeated long interruptions in mining there.
With the cessation of mining in Festenburg and Schulenberg after 1800, the Festenburger tunnel fell into disrepair.
Overview of the shafts, tunnels and day openings
The shafts of the pits on the Festenburg ore mine, which were connected to the tunnel , are not listed here .
| Surname | Greatest depth | length | Beginning | The End | Geographical location | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mouth hole | around 1,100 m | 1805 | 51 ° 49 ′ 56 "N, 10 ° 23 ′ 48" E | |||
| Light hole I | 51 ° 49 '59 "N, 10 ° 23' 44" E | |||||
| Light hole II | 51 ° 50 ′ 0 ″ N, 10 ° 23 ′ 37 ″ E | |||||
| Light hole III | 51 ° 50 ′ 1 ″ N, 10 ° 23 ′ 33 ″ E | |||||
| Light hole IV | 51 ° 50 ′ 1 ″ N, 10 ° 23 ′ 26 ″ E |
Current condition (2011)
The mouth hole is buried and can no longer be found. In the course of the tunnel, the former light holes can still be seen as pinging .
literature
- Christoph Bartels : From the early modern mining industry to the mining industry . German Mining Museum, Bochum 1992, ISBN 3-921533-53-8 .
- Torsten Schröpfer : Treasure trove: Interesting facts about the West Harz mining and metallurgy . 1st edition. Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2000, ISBN 3-923605-08-0 .
- Rainer Slotta : Technical monuments in the Federal Republic of Germany - Volume 5, Part 1: The iron ore mining . German Mining Museum, Bochum 1986.
- Dieter Stoppel : Course map of the Upper Harz . Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials, 1981, ISSN 0540-679X .