Herold lime works

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The lime works Herold was a lime - mine in what is now the district herald the Saxon town Thum in the Erzgebirge .

history

Main building and lime kilns of the former Herold lime works

Lime mining in Herold must have started in the 17th century at the latest, as the chronicler Christian Lehmann reports in his historical scene about lime mining in Herold and Venusberg :

“At Fenßberg on the Wiltzschberge and at the Herold on the Schafberg there are also rich and powerful Kalck quarries. The Fenßbergische is very white, productive, and very easy to build, also solid, and because it is very open during the day, it can be broken easily and in large quantities at no cost; The Herolder, however, is a bit gray, and serves and serves only for masonry and on the fields, but not for pelting and whitewashing, is also a bit deep and difficult to win, so one often recovers from the lime of Crottendorf . It must be mastered with powder and fire, burned 6 days and night before it is cooked and can be expelled, as then annually in 2 places from 9 to 10 stoves are expelled, and is mostly seduced to fertilize the fields. "

In 1751 the lime works belonged to the Thum manor. Different tenants changed between 1790 and 1820.

In 1817 August Schumann mentions the lime works in the state, post and newspaper encyclopedia of Saxony concerning a. a .:

“In Nieder-Herold there are various stately limestone quarries with two lime kilns. The previous limestone quarries of this place were very famous, but have died out in modern times. They completely replace the newly discovered ones. "

The ovens used at the time are still partially preserved; they are located in the immediate vicinity of the extraction shaft. Lime was extracted in open-cast mining until 1854 , after which it was converted to tunnel mining. Between 1903 and 1909, the lime was extracted again in open-cast mining.
Carriages of horses transported the extracted lime, at times up to 30 draft horses were used here. In 1860 2 lime kilns were put into operation, which were in use until 1964. With the construction of the narrow-gauge railway, the plant received a siding and from then on it was transported away by rail. At the same time, the railway supplied the coal required for the burning process .
In 1908 the machine building for the compressor, which generated the compressed air required in the mine building, was built, and a crushing and classifying facility was also built .
In 1944, the Wehrmacht started building an aircraft factory for Junkers in the area of ​​the 43-meter floor . Up to 1945 over 750 Soviet prisoners of war were employed here, the planned plant and the tunnel were no longer completed. The facility was blown up by the Red Army , resulting in breaks in the 31-meter and 10-meter level, and the site of the day of the fall was also destroyed.
In 1946 the plant went into the administration of the Annaberg district and it was rebuilt. In 1949 it was called "KWU Kreis Annaberg Kalk- und Marmorwerk Herold". When the district of Zschopau was founded in 1953, the plant became a state-owned company and in 1964 it became part of the “VEB Kombinat Vereinigte Kalkwerke Oberscheibe ”. In 1966, electric locomotives and the conversion from manual to machine operation began on the 54-meter level. In 1979, the decision was made to close the factory, which was now economically unprofitable. At the end of mining on May 31, 1985, the deposit was developed on 13 levels (up to 130 meter level). Between 1985 and 1989 all fixtures were removed.
From 1989 the Herolder Kalkwerk was owned by the "Westsächsische Steinwerke GmbH", which in 1990 kept the shaft in custody . A year later, the work was transferred to "Erich Schönherr GmbH" and in 1995 to the then community.

literature

  • Klaus Hoth, Bernd Hofmann: Former Herold deposit. In: Klaus Hoth, Norbert Krutský, Wolfgang Schilka: Marbles in the Erzgebirge (= mining in Saxony. Volume 16). State Office for the Environment, Agriculture and Geology - Oberbergamt, Freiberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812792-2-1 , pp. 170–178. (PDF; 7.47 MB)

Web links

Commons : Kalkwerk Herold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Lehmann : Historical scene of their natural peculiarities in the Meißnischen Ober-Ertzgebirge. Lankisch, Leipzig 1699, p. 446 f. (Digitized version)
  2. ↑ a b Sights in Thum and the surrounding area. ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2011 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. on: jahnsbach-erzgebirge.de , accessed on June 4, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jahnsbach-erzgebirge.de
  3. ↑ cf. Klaus Hoth, Bernd Hofmann: Former Herold deposit. In: Marbles in the Ore Mountains. 2010, p. 172.
  4. ↑ cf. Herald. . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 4th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1817, pp. 17-19.
  5. ↑ cf. Klaus Hoth, Bernd Hofmann: Former Herold deposit. In: Marbles in the Ore Mountains. 2010, p. 178.

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 15.1 ″  N , 12 ° 58 ′ 55.4 ″  E