Grass stone

Grasstein ( Italian Le Cave ) is the northernmost fraction of the municipality of Franzensfeste in South Tyrol ( Italy ), located immediately north of the Sachsenklemme in the Wipptal . The place used to be an important transshipment station on the Brennerbahn for north-south freight traffic. The large freight yard was abandoned in the 1980s.

In the 16th and 17th centuries , the Fuggers operated a smelting works in Grasstein as part of the Jenbacher Gesellschaft , in which ores from nearby mining sites were processed.

Individual evidence

↑ Ludwig von Scheuermann: The Fugger as mining industry in Tyrol and Carinthia: a contribution to the economic history of the 16th and 17th centuries (studies on the Fugger history 8). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1929, pp. 29, 162 and 488-489.

46,819 11,535Coordinates: 46 ° 49 ' N , 11 ° 32' E

[1] Ludwig von Scheuermann: The Fugger as mining industry in Tyrol and Carinthia: a contribution to the economic history of the 16th and 17th centuries (studies on the Fugger history 8). Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 1929, pp. 29, 162 and 488-489.