Anton pit
Anton pit | |||
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General information about the mine | |||
other names | Anton-Utzenfeld mine | ||
Mining technology | Underground mining | ||
Funding / total | 190 tons of silver ; Cobalt ore | ||
Information about the mining company | |||
Start of operation | 1834 | ||
End of operation | 1850 | ||
Successor use | Geoscientific Joint Observatory Wolfach, Black Forest Observatory (BFO) | ||
Funded raw materials | |||
Degradation of | Silver / cobalt ore | ||
Degradation of | Cobalt ore | ||
Geographical location | |||
Coordinates | 48 ° 19 ′ 45.5 " N , 8 ° 19 ′ 23.5" E | ||
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Location | Wolfach | ||
local community | Schenkenzell , Schiltach , Heubach | ||
Region ( NUTS3 ) | Black Forest | ||
country | State of Baden-Württemberg | ||
Country | Germany | ||
District | Revier pastures |
The Anton pit was a former underground mine in the Wolfach district in the Black Forest . The mine was in operation from 1834 to 1850 and has been used as a geoscientific observatory since 1972 .
history
The first mining activities in the area of the Anton mine began in the 1770s. The planned exploitation of the mine took place in the years 1834 to 1850, where about 740 kg of silver and 189,487 kg of cobalt ore were mined. Around 1970 the abandoned Anton pit was selected for a geophysical observatory that was yet to be built, which was put into operation in 1972 as the Geoscientific Joint Observatory Wolfach (Black Forest Oberservatory, BFO) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and the University of Stuttgart . The building costs of 750,000 DM were borne by the Volkswagen Foundation.
literature
- Gregor Markl: The Anton pit in the Heubachtal near Schiltach, Black Forest . In: Lapis . No. 6 , 1990, ISSN 0176-1285 , pp. 11-20 .
Web links
- Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig: Black Forest Observatory (BFO). Retrieved December 14, 2018 .
- Schiltach Joint Geoscientific Observatory (BFO). Geophysical Institute of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, accessed on December 14, 2018 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rudolf Widmer-Schnidrig: A brief history of the Observatory. (No longer available online.) In: Black Forest Observatory (BFO). Archived from the original on November 20, 2012 ; accessed on December 14, 2018 .