The start of happiness
| Start of happiness | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | before 1722 | ||
| End of operation | before 1850 / around 1900 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Iron ore , lead , silver , copper , zinc ore | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '24.3 " N , 8 ° 1' 5.9" E | ||
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| Location | Have to | ||
| local community | Hilchenbach | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Siegen-Wittgenstein | ||
| country | State of North Rhine-Westphalia | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Mountain area Müsen | ||
The Glücksanfang mine was located near Müsen ( Hilchenbach ) (Upper Stollen is located in today's Kreuztal municipality) in the northern Siegerland and belonged to the Wilder Mann mine .
Glücksanfang was first mentioned in 1722, but ore mining is probably older. The upper gallery , which was probably built towards the end of the 17th century, is 80 m long and reached the middle of the passage on June 25, 1722. The passage was up to 1 m thick. The deep Glücksanfanger tunnel , which was created in the 18th century, was 290 m long in 1752, and a shaft connected the two tunnels. A lower gallery was built in 1751. Die construction began around 1830. Already before 1850 there was a consolidation with Junge Mann , whose name the mine took on.
Gang agent was Wilder Mann , in addition to iron ore , lead , silver , copper and zinc ores were also mined .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ A b T. Hundt, G. Gerlach, F. Roth, W. Schmidt: Description of the mountain areas Siegen I, Siegen II, Burbach & Müsen ; Bonn 1887
Web links
- Gerd Bäumer: Ore mining in the Siegerland area ( Memento from November 7, 2001 in the Internet Archive )
- The pit as part of the Kindelsberg path on kreuztal.de