Frau Sophien Hut

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The Frau-Sophien-Hütte was a steelworks on the eastern outskirts of the Lower Saxon town of Langelsheim in Germany . Today a street name marks the location of the former hut.

history

According to the Riechenberg Treaty of 1552, Duke Heinrich the Younger took ownership of some of the Lower Harz huts and founded the hut in 1556 . It was named Frau-Sophien-Hütte after Sophia Jagiellonica , the wife of the duke, who died in 1575 and a daughter of the Polish king Sigismund . The hut operated until 1941. Together with the Herzog-Julius-Hütte and the Okeraner Frau-Marien-Hütte , metal extraction from Rammelsberg ores was concentrated in these three huts in the 16th century .

Lead - zinc ores from Goslar's Rammelsberg were melted in open heap roasting and then in shaft furnaces . In the 18th and 19th centuries, the sulphidic Goslar ores were roasted three times. The first roasting, which lasted up to five months, was carried out on wooden roasting beds in the open air, the second and third roasting took place in scales. The sulfur was sublimed and escaped into the air as sulphurous acid . After roasting, the ores were melted.

The lead obtained was further processed in smelting works in Oker . In addition, was vitriol won for the manufacture of paints. The slag was initially deposited in the vicinity of the hut. From 1909 the still zinc-containing slag was processed in the zinc oxide smelter in Oker .

Current condition

Remnants can still be found in the area of ​​the footprints of the heaps. The hut buildings have been demolished, the areas are now renovated and partly built over.

swell

  • Torsten Schröpfer, Fundgrube - interesting facts about the West Harz mining and metallurgy, Oberharzer Geschichts- und Museumsverein eV (publisher), Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 2000, ISBN 3-923605-08-0
  • R. Roseneck (Ed.), Der Rammelsberg, Verlag Goslarsche Zeitung, Goslar, 2001, ISBN 3-9804749-4-1
  • Hans-Günther Griep: The district of Goslar its cities and villages , Elm-Verlag, Cremlingen, 1988, ISBN 3-927060-00-3

Individual evidence

  1. ^ E. Stolte, EH Stolte: Langelsheim , Verlag Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 1982, ISBN 3-923605-90-0 .

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 57.3 ″  N , 10 ° 20 ′ 54.5 ″  E