Gray man
Grauer Mann is a disused mine in the Johanngeorgenstadt mining area in the Saxon Ore Mountains . In the files on the company history, the spelling Grauermann is very often found .
history
The Grauer Mann treasure trove was found on the upper Hinteren Fastenberg near Eibenstocker Strasse near Johanngeorgenstadt in 1707 with an at 850 m above sea level. NHN chipped tunnel muted. This tunnel is also known as the gray men tunnel. In 1716 she found what she was looking for and delivered 21 kg of silver by 1722. From 1735 it was operated together with the neighboring Wildermann mine . Both pits came to a standstill in 1759. It was not until 1823 that operations were resumed. In 1922 the unified mines joined the union United Field in Fastenberge . The mine dump that has been preserved is now a technical monument.
The tunnel was examined at the end of the 1940s by the geological department of Object 01 of Wismut AG . No viable uranium mineralization was found.
swell
- Sächsisches Staatsarchiv, Freiberg mountain archive: inventory 40186 coal mine register of Saxon mountain areas, No. 36745ff.
- 40169 mine files of the Schwarzenberg mining area (with Eibenstock, Hohenstein, Johanngeorgenstadt, Oberwiesenthal, Scheibenberg, Schneeberg and Voigtsberg), No. 900: Grauer Mann Stolln and Fundgrube, from 1736 Grauer and Wilder Mann Fundgrube, on the Hinteren Fastenberg on Eibenstocker Strasse near Johanngeorgenstadt
literature
- Otfried Wagenbreth et al .: Mining in the Ore Mountains . Technical monuments and history. Ed .: Otfried Wagenbreth, Eberhard Wächtler . 1st edition. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-342-00509-2 , p. 294 .
- Frank Teller : Mining and Mining Town Johanngeorgenstadt , Förderverein Pferdegöpel (Ed.), Johanngeorgenstadt 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Christian Engelschall : Description of the exiles and mountain town Johann Georgen city . Friedrich Lanckischen's heirs and Christoph Kircheisen, Leipzig 1723, p. 231 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '22 " N , 12 ° 42' 23" E