Maassener Gaipel
The Maaßener Gaipel is an excursion restaurant on the northeast slope of the Kranichsberg at 420 m above sea level. NN above the mountain town of Lautenthal in the Harz Mountains . The name goes back to the daytime facilities of the Maaßen drive shaft , which was located immediately to the east of the restaurant. Gaipel is a common name in the Upper Harz for a shaft building (driving house) and goes back to the (horse) Göpel , which was used to drive shaft conveyors and dewatering machines. Maaßen stands for the pit second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth dimension after the Sachsenzeche . Measure (or Maaß, Maas or Mas) is an indication of the length of a mine field and in the Upper Harz mining industry is 28 pools, corresponding to 53.8 meters. The restaurant was established in 1924 on the initiative of the Harz Club on the former mine site. Decades before that, the Zechenplatz was a popular destination for walkers because of the view of the mountain town and the valley of the Laute.
history
Mining
The pit 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th dimension was mentioned for the first time in 1622. Before 1676 it was renamed Grube St. Thomas and in 1681 the mine in the Lautenthals Glück mine opened up.
Since 1720 the Maaßener drive shaft and the Maaßener Kunstschacht (= drainage shaft ) of the Lautenthals Glück pit have been used for extraction and drainage. At that time both shafts were so-called blind shafts and did not emerge for days. The driving shaft had had a turning wheel hoisting machine since 1718 . From 1842 to 1844 the drive shaft was broken up for days. In the period that followed, the shaft building and the other surface facilities were built . The sweeping wheel was 29 meters below the shaft and around 70 meters to the north. It was fed with impact water via the Upper Richtschacht Trench . The former sweeping wheel of the blind conveyor was still about 40 meters lower in an underground bike room . In the Maaßener Kunstschacht there was a double art of driving for the miners to drive in and out of the Lautenthals Glück mine . These and the pumps for the dewatering were driven by a total of four "internal" (underground) artificial wheels, which received their impact water from the Maaßen watercourse , which is still visible today .
With the sinking of a new central production well in 1905 to 1909, the old Maaßener wells lost their importance. The drive shaft was filled in from 1908 and the shaft conveyor facilities were demolished until 1920. The artificial shaft served as a weather shaft until mining was discontinued in 1930 .
restaurant
Since the colliery site was visited by hikers in the past, a small garden with seating was created on the dump in the 1860s . The slinger of the shaft provided the visitors with hot water for brewing the brought coffee . When the mining facilities disappeared after 1920, this popular destination was threatened with loss. For example, the then chairman of the Harz Club branch, forester Quickert and Bergrat Barry had the idea of building a restaurant instead of the former Maaßen Gaipel. With donated timber and volunteers, a small forest tavern was built between 1924 and 1925, which was managed under the direction of the Harz Club. In order to avert the threat of closure due to structural defects, the dining room and kitchen were modernized from 1976 to 1978 and sanitary facilities were installed. In the 1980s, the Harz Club acquired the 14-hectare mine site from Preussag AG Metall.
The restaurant is included in the system of the Harz hiking nobility as stamp number 107 .
Original appearance of the mining facilities and today's traces
A postcard from 1918 shows the appearance of the original Gaipel building. The shaft building was a simple, two-story wooden house with a flat gable roof. From the roof of a low, steely sticking headframe with timbered superstructure over the pulleys that coming from the Kehrrad haul rope in the tonnlägige umlenkten shaft tube. In the gable wall were openings for the feed through of the control rods of the waterwheel that ran down the slope. The conveyor track came out of the gate in the eaves side.
Behind the shaft house on the slope was the mouth of a tunnel , which was later used by the restaurant as a drinks cellar under the name "Bierstollen".
To the east of today's restaurant building, the "Bergwerks- und Geschichtsverein Bergstadt Lautenthal von 1976 eV" set up the functional model of an artifact from 1992 to 1998 to remind of the original function of the site. The artificial wheel on a scale of 1: 2 with a diameter of six meters is not far from the point where the turning wheel of the Maaßen drive shaft once turned.
In addition to the beer stollen, there is a model of a timber construction in connection with the Lautenthaler Mining Trail .
In the vicinity of the forest restaurant, some display boards (including Dennert-Tannen ) point out the history of mining.
literature
- Christoph Bartels : From the early modern mining industry to the mining industry . German Mining Museum, Bochum 1992, ISBN 3-921533-53-8 .
- Torsten Schröpfer: Treasure trove: Interesting facts about the West Harz mining and metallurgy . 1st edition. Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2000, ISBN 3-923605-08-0 .
- Wilfried Ließmann: Historical mining in the Harz . 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-540-62930-0 , 12 - The mining of Lautenthal, p. 227-232 .
- Klaus Stedingk: Lautenthal: mountain town in the Upper Harz; Mining and metallurgical history . Bergwerks- und Geschichtsverein Bergstadt Lautenthal from 1976, Lautenthal 2002, ISBN 3-00-009504-7 .
Web links
- Timeline. with information on the "Maaßener Gaipel". In: harzklub-lautenthal.de. Harz Club Branch Association Lautenthal e. V., accessed on July 19, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 107 / Maaßener Gaipel , on harzer-wandernadel.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 51 ′ 50 ″ N , 10 ° 17 ′ 23 ″ E