Glasebach mine

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Glasebach mine
surface system with headframe
Tunnel in the pit
Replica of the original water wheel
Radstube
Single reel

The Glasebach mine is a mining museum of the Harz fluorspar and silver mining in the Strassberg district of the city of Harzgerode in the Harz mining region in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt . It is operated by AFG Harz mbH. The mine was founded under the name Trust in God .

Geographical location

The mine is located in Glasebach Glasebachtal in Unterharz in Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park . It is located on Glasebacher Weg about 800 m east-southeast of Straßberg on the Straßberg-Neudorfer Gangzug ( 440.7  m ) in the valley of the Selke tributary Glasebach at about 400  m above sea level. Above sea level.

History and description

The mining around Strassberg goes to back to the time around the year 1400th Fluorspar and silver were extracted at Heidelberg north of Straßberg and processed in a local hut on behalf of Count zu Stolberg . On the Glasebach, which formed the border between the county of Stolberg and the Principality of Anhalt-Bernburg , there was also brisk mining.

The first documentary mention of today's Glasebach mine is from 1689 as a silk gloss . For the period from 1697 to 1699, occupancy and extraction in the pit has been proven. In 1701, under the direction of Georg Christoph von Utterodt, there was a new presumption as trust in God . In 1705, alignment work was carried out using old mine facilities. Old artifacts were removed and a new pump system was added. In 1729, four people from Strasbourg performed another new mutation. The mine was now operated as a Glasebach , but then closed again in 1736. The Straßberg union resumed funding in 1752. For the year 1762, despite the Seven Years' War , the mine was occupied by eight men, in 1763 by 17 men. The seigere production shaft reached its final depth . The inclined shaft of the mine was up to the 5th floor . Both shafts were drained by water- powered pumps. The stretches in the pit were covered with single-wheel trolleys that were led over oak planks. In 1765 another shutdown took place until operations were resumed in 1772. Due to mismanagement under Bergrat von Gärtner , the mine was shut down for a long time in 1776.

It was not until 1810 that the production of fluorite was resumed. At a depth of 80 meters in the so-called new building , mining was carried out above the 5th level. In 1822 a new water art went into operation. Mining was particularly intense between 1837 and 1855. The tunnel of the 5th level was driven 80 meters to the west, where the fluorspar corridor ended. In 1856 the production shaft was closed by a plastering at the height of the tunnel floor . Funding was then suspended for almost 100 years.

During the GDR era , the old shaft was then opened in 1949/1950 by the VEB Verfestigungen und Verfestigungen Schachtbau Nordhausen , explored and sunk below the fifth level. The new excavation ultimately resulted in only a small amount of fluorite, but the extraction was carried out. In the 1950s, various wooden barracks that have been preserved to this day were erected as functional structures above the pit. On September 26, 1956, a water ingress came from an old mine, in which six miners were killed.

In 1976, a twelve-meter-high steel headframe was erected, which still characterizes the surface area today. The construction took place according to plans of the Staßfurt potash combine and was carried out by employees of the Straßberger mine.

In 1982 the fluorspar extraction was discontinued, as the mining value appeared to be too low. The pit was kept open as a weather and material shaft for the fluorspar pit Fluorschacht. The last cable ride took place on January 5, 1990 .

As early as 1980, the then mining company VEB Harzer Spatgruben Werk Rottleberode had made efforts to designate the Glasebach mine as a technical monument and to operate it as a show mine . Although the mine was actually included in the district monument list as a monument to the history of production and transport in 1983 , the plan for a show mine was not implemented from a financial point of view. In 1984 it was therefore decided in principle to backfill the shaft and demolish the above-ground facilities. About a-day was in 1986 the construction of cottage settlement planned. In 1987 the underground safekeeping began.

In July 1989, the circle of monuments placed the headframe listed. There was resistance from the population to the planned removal of the mine. The Montanverein Straßberg , which was committed to preserving the mining history of the town, was founded in Straßberg, certainly against the background of the fall of the Wall . Nevertheless, in October 1989 the construction of the cottage settlement was approved, whereby the local chronicles contradicted the planned demolition of the headframe. In January 1990 the Halle Monument Preservation Office also turned against the removal of the pit, and in February 1990 there was a population initiative including a collection of signatures for the preservation of the pit and against the bungalow settlement. While VEB Harzer Spatgruben appealed against the original protected status, citing formal errors, the Strassberg branch of the Harz Club complained against the underground custody. The Halle Mining Authority issued a custody freeze in July 1990. In March 1991 the decision was finally made to preserve the Glasebach mine as a cultural monument in the long term and to make it accessible to the public. The first subsidies were already flowing in April 1991, and in June the above-ground renovation work was started with a job creation measure. The underground measures for museum use began in May 1992. At the same time, the historic wheel chamber was found and uncovered. In June the dry stone walling of the grinding trough of the art wheel was renewed , and in September 1993 it was housed. Since August 1993 the mine has belonged to the community of Straßberg after it was bought. In December of that year, the transformer station was built and the expansion of Weidegasse into a pit began. The street was inaugurated in September 1994.

In June 1995 the Glasebach mine was opened as a mining museum. The Association for the Promotion and Preservation of the Lower Harz Mining Museums was founded in January . The museum shows underground mining from the 17th to 19th centuries and above ground the facilities from the time of the GDR.

In the museum, among other things, the old wooden bottom outlet of the Untere Kiliansteich , which was recovered in the course of the renovation in 1990, is exhibited after it was subjected to long-term conservation by the Harz waterworks in Clausthal-Zellerfeld . A German door frame recovered from the fifth level is also on display . The chews , the equipment of the mine rescue center , the station for charging the lamps and the emergency power supply using a ship's diesel have also been preserved .

Remains of the historical water art are preserved in the pit. Two preserved reel chambers are also remarkable .

The Glasebach show mine is included as No. 175 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin. In the local register of monuments , the mine is listed as a monument area under registration number 094 45110 .

Glasebach tunnel

Glasebach tunnel

The Glasebach tunnel belonging to the mine is located about 300 meters east of the Glasebach pit. It was excavated before 1690 and is laid out to the east in the direction of the Cautious Bergmann pit . Ultimately, the tunnel reached a length of 360 meters. The tunnel was explored in the 1970s, but production was not resumed. 110 meters of the tunnel were rehabilitated in 1991 with public funding. Bats live in the back of the tunnel.

memorial

memorial

A memorial has been set up at the foot of the headframe to commemorate the victims of the mine disaster on September 26, 1956. There is a memorial plaque on a stone. It bears the inscription:

IN HONOR TO MEMORIAL
of the unfortunate miners of the
water ingress on September 26th, 1956
on the 6th level in 140 m depth

Johann Kremling Tender
Friedrich Reineberg Tender
Willi Blume Teacher
Emil Giese Teacher
Werner Langer Fördermann
Albert Steinbach Fördermann

Montanverein Ostharz in Strassberg eV

gallery

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: Stamp number 175 / Glasebach Mine , on harzer-wandernadel.de
  3. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt , page 1875 f.

Web links

Commons : Grube Glasebach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 51 ° 36 ′ 45 ″  N , 11 ° 3 ′ 39 ″  E