Freiberg mountain area

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"Alte Elisabeth" shaft of the Assumption treasure trove in Freiberg
Slag dump "Hohe Esse", in front of it the Feinhütte Halsbrücke

The Freiberg Mining Field is a former ore - Mountain area in Saxony . It existed from the last third of the 12th century to the second half of the 20th century.

location

The Freiberg Bergrevier (also: Freiberg Central District ) is located in the broader sense on an approximately 35 × 40 kilometer large deposit of precious and non-ferrous metals in the lower Eastern Ore Mountains with the center Freiberg . It extends outside Freiberg over the area of ​​the communities Halsbrücke , Bobritzsch-Hilbersdorf , Weißenborn , Oberschöna and the cities of Brand-Erbisdorf and Großschirma .

The Freiberg (mountain) area was part of the Freiberg deposit district. It is located in the middle part between the Halsbrücker Revier in the north and the Brand-Erbisdorf Revier in the south (hence also: "Central District"). These three mining areas were divided into individual pit fields as follows :

history

The Freiberger mining took here in the 12th century its start when on the corridor of Christian village was found silver. This started the first mountain cries . Silver mining continued until 1912. After a period of inactivity, the Sachsenz Bergwerks GmbH (later Sachsz Bergwerks AG ) began searching for ores again from 1933 and resumed the production of lead, tungsten and other metals. After the Second World War, the SDAG Wismut unsuccessfully examined the Freiberg mining area for uranium mineralization. Until 1969, the VEB mining and smelter combine "Albert Funk" Freiberg mined lead, silver and zinc as well as trace metals in the Freiberg mining area.

Historically, there have been numerous and various smelting operations within this mining area , such as in Muldenhütten .

raw materials

The most important ores are galena , sphalerite , pyrite , arsenopyrite , Silberfahlerz , Rotgültigerze and silver sheen .

Other mineral raw materials that were mined were: quartz , calcite , barite and fluorspar .

literature

  • Ludwig Baumann, Ewald Kuschka, Thomas Seifert: The deposits of the Ore Mountains . Springer Spectrum, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 978-3-8274-1222-5 .
  • Ludwig Baumann, Fritz Hofmann, Wolfgang Weber: Glückauf Freiberg. Bode Verlag, Haltern 1997, ISBN 3-925094-48-2 .
  • Freudenstein eV (ed.): Proceedings 17th International Mining and Mining History Workshop. Freiberg in Saxony, October 2014. Papierflieger-Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2014, ISBN 978-3-86948-364-1 .
  • Geo Competence Center Freiberg e. V .: Revaluation of spar and ore deposits in the Free State of Saxony . Profile catalog. Ed .: Saxon State Ministry for Economy and Labor. Freiberg 2008 ( PDF, 12.64 MB [accessed on February 22, 2013] Historical outline, information about previous exploration methods and technology development in mining and processing; current status of work on 139 ore and spar deposits in Saxony according to the degree of Openness.).
  • Jens Kugler : Monuments of mining history in the Freiberg northern district. in: Saxon State Office for Monument Preservation (Hg.): Technical monuments in Saxony. Workbook No. 27, Dresden 2017, pp. 27–39.
  • Otfried Wagenbreth , Eberhard Wächtler : The Freiberg mining industry. Technical monuments and history. Verlag für Grundstofftindustrie, Leipzig 1986, ISBN 3-342-00117-8 .

Web links

Wikisource: About Freiberg and its mining in general  - sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Otfried Wagenbreth : The Freiberg mining . Technical monuments and history. Ed .: Eberhard Wächtler . 2nd Edition. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1988, ISBN 3-342-00117-8 , p. 381 .

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 '  N , 13 ° 21'  E