Bergmannstrost mine (Bad Ems)
| Mine Bergmannstrost | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| other names | Lindenbach | ||
| Rare minerals | Pyromorphite , linarite , plumbogummite , cinnabarite , corkite , ramsbeckite , pyrargyrite , schulenbergite , jarosite | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1766 | ||
| End of operation | 1926 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Lead, silver, zinc, copper, iron | ||
| Greatest depth | 240 m (min.) | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 19 '49.2 " N , 7 ° 42' 24.1" E | ||
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| local community | Never | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Rhein-Lahn district | ||
| country | State of Rhineland-Palatinate | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
The Bergmannstrost mine was a lead - silver - zinc ore mine in Rhineland-Palatinate near Nievern an der Lahn .
They dismantled the deposit of the so-called Emser Gangzug , which stretched over 14.5 km from Braubach via Bad Ems to Arzbach . Further pits on this passage were Rosenberg , Friedrichssegen , Neuhoffnung, Fahnenberg, Pfingstwiese (Tollgraben operating point), Blöskopf, Pitschbach and Silberkaute (near Arzbach).
history
In 1766, Franz Carl, Count von und zu der Leyen, lent the mill owner Joh. Remy zu Bendorf the pit near the parish of Nievern. The mine later fell partially into the open . During a visit by a Mr. Stöckicht, the latter found the mine out of order as large ore stocks were on the dump. A processing plant below the Emser weir processed the ore extracted. The mine was in continuous operation from 1823 with the exception of the years 1838–1847 and 1850–1854 until 1887, when the operation of the mine became too costly. The mine was reopened in the 20th century and finally closed in 1926. Two water column machines and a steam engine supplied lifting energy for water and ores. The greatest depth of the pit on the 6th underground level, which was 145 m below the level of the deep tunnel, was at least 241 m. After the end of production, the shaft was sealed and secured with a concrete seal. Today there is a private house on the shaft site. Since the 1970s, the mine water flowing from the deep tunnel has been fed into the public water supply.
Aisle means
Five veins are known. The thickness of the Lindenbacher Ganges averaged 1 to 1.5 m. The mass of the passage was criss-crossed with galena and zinc blende cords. At the 6th Civil Engineering sole ( Turks gap ) which entered a new means to. This followed the Tiefendeller Mittel, which consisted of two 15 m apart corridors in the upper depths, of which, however, only the hanging one extended to the 6th level. Towards the depth, the length of the rubble was reduced from 180 m to approx. 50 m. The pyromorphite medium consisted of the mineral of the same name and was 80 m long. The lead rubber means had a length of only 15 m in bauwürdigem state and consisted next Pyromorphit from galena, lead rubber (= Plumbogummit ) and sometimes even native silver. The Küppler means was only worth building in the last part over 30 m. The 0.8–1 m thick duct mass consisted of brown iron stone and had nested galena and pyromorphite.
Tunnels and shafts
- Upper Tiefendeller tunnel (430 m long)
- Middle tunnel (240 m long)
- Deep tunnel on the Lahn (590 m long; 86 m deeper than the upper tunnel)
- Lindenschacht
- Sophia shaft
- Tiefendellerschacht
- Küpplerschacht
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Mine Bergmannstrost in the Mineralienatlas
- ↑ Bergmannstrost mine on mindat.org
- ↑ a b Bergmannstrost mine
- ↑ a b SGD Nord: Drinking water supply from the "Bergmannstrost" tunnel secured
See also
literature
- A. Seeliger, DE Buchert and T. Noll: Der Emser Gangzug , Aufschluss, 2009, vol. 60, no. 2/3, 160 pp.
- S. Weiss: Mineral discovery sites Atlas Germany West , Weise Verlag, Munich, 1990, p. 100.
- Ludwig Beck: The Remy family and the industry on the Middle Rhine in annals of the association for Nassau antiquity and history research , Volume 35, 1905, pp. 1–129.
