Herzog-Alexis-Erbstollen

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Oral hole of the Duke Alexis tunnel

The Herzog-Alexis-Erbstollen is a listed tunnel near the district of Mägdesprung belonging to the town of Harzgerode in Saxony-Anhalt .

location

It is located in the Harz in the Selketal east of Mägdesprung, southwest of the IV. Hammer . The tunnel drains the hope of God pit into the nearby Schiebecksbach , which after a short distance flows into the Selke .

Design and history

The design of the tunnel mouth hole is striking as an iron classical column portico with Doric columns. Behind the portico, the underground system extends 2,264 meters into the mountain.

The construction of the tunnel goes back to the initiative of the mountain councilor Johann Ludwig Carl Zincken , who suggested the construction in 1829. The tunnel was built on April 22, 1830 as a water solution tunnel. The work began in the meadow in the Schiebeck valley. The first 250 meters of the tunnel are dry renewal, then it is self-supporting. In 1832 the second light hole was created, and in 1837 the third light hole. The third light hole is at the foot of the apple mountain and was then used for driving and conveying. In 1839 an ore was discovered, which was named as a gallery . Ore was mined in the gallery from 1839 to 1845, with up to 20 piles being mined below the hereditary gallery . A planned watercourse for an artificial tool was not implemented for financial reasons. 1,600 tons of galena were mined.

From 1858, work was carried out in the opposite direction from the mine Hope of God to the tunnel. On April 1, 1860, a water ingress occurred . Since the break-in took place outside of working hours, there was no personal injury. Production was first resumed on September 10, 1860, after the clean-up work had been completed. After more than 32 years, on May 26th 1862 a connection between the tunnel and the opposite site was established by means of a borehole. On the occasion of the breakthrough, a miners' festival was celebrated on the fairground of the Grube Hope Gottes. It was the last miners' festival of this kind in the Harzgeroder district . In 1865, excavation of the tunnel finally ended. The tunnel had thus reached a total length of 2,264 meters. The total cost of the tunnel construction was 136,274 rt , 6 Sgr and 3 Pf .

The name of the tunnel refers to Duke Alexius Friedrich Christian von Anhalt-Bernburg .

In local monument list the tunnels below the detection number 094 50127 and the mouth hole under number 094 50111 is in each case as a monument listed.

literature

  • Falko Grubitzsch in: Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments . Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 1: Ute Bednarz, Folkhard Cremer and others: Magdeburg administrative region. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich et al. 2002, ISBN 3-422-03069-7 , page 526.
  • Heinz Mente, Der Herzog-Alexis-Erbstollen in Edgar Presia and others, Harzgerode, individual contributions to local history , Harzgeroder Hefte 2, Harzgerode, 1993, page 55.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 166 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 1865
  2. ↑ 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 1863

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 52.7 "  N , 11 ° 9 ′ 47.9"  E