Johanneszeche (Wunsiedel)

Johanneszeche City of Wunsiedel Coordinates: 50 ° 4 ′ 2 ″  N , 12 ° 4 ′ 46 ″  E
Residents :	21  (2000)
Postal code :	95632
Area code :	09232
Location of Johanneszeche in Bavaria

Johanneszeche is a district of the district town of Wunsiedel in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains ( Upper Franconia ), six kilometers east of the city center. In 2000 there were 21 people living in Johanneszeche.

Transport links

From Wunsiedel the state road 2665 leads east towards Thiersheim and to the federal highway 93 . There was a stop called Johanneszeche on the Holenbrunn – Selb railway line that was dismantled there .

history

Soapstone (steatite) has been mined in the pits of the Johanneszeche since 1542 . In 1810 the mine became the property of the Bavarian state, and from 1857 onwards, various companies engaged in economic mining. Today only a few mines and heaps remind of the once flourishing mining industry .

literature

• Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Lexicon . Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 .

Web links

• Mining (including: soapstone ) on bayern-fichtelgebirge.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Migration motif investigation in Wunsiedel ( Memento of the original from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Supreme building authority in the Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Transport, 2012, p. 7. Retrieved on May 27, 2015.