Schmiedeberg lime works

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The lime works Schmiedeberg (also Schmiedeberg lime kiln ; Czech Kovářská-Vápenka ) was a lime - mine southwest of the Czech town of Kovářská in the Bohemian Erzgebirge .

The area of ​​the lime works is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Ore Mountains Mining Region .

location

The area with furnaces and the adjoining quarry is located about 2.5 kilometers southwest of the city center of Kovářská in the valley of the Černá Voda ( German  black water ) at about 900  m nm

It is already in the corridor of the town of Loučná pod Klínovcem near the district of Háj ( German  Stolzenhain , formerly also Stolzenhan ) and was therefore sometimes referred to as the Stolzenhan lime works .

history

View of one of the two lime kilns

The first mention of the work dates from 1831, the start of dismantling is assumed to be in the 18th century (around 1750). The owner of the plant was the noble family Buquoi , which also owned the Preßnitz rule with the castle in Preßnitz. The last owner in the 20th century was Karl Buquoi. Production in the lime works with quarry and the two adjacent shaft kilns ran until 1924, when it was discontinued due to unprofitability. Two years later, master builder Röhn from Weipert briefly resumed funding; it ended again after three years. Afterwards there were only occasional attempts at dismantling.

The two lime kilns are the only ones preserved in the Bohemian part of the Ore Mountains.

Dismantling and use

Initially, the camp in the quarry was dismantled with simple tools, later explosions were also used. The broken dolomite marble was carted to the shaft kilns and poured into the kiln from above. Wood, tree sticks and coal were used as fuel.

The gray, lumpy quicklime produced here was used as building lime and, before 1887, as a blast furnace aggregate for the Schmiedeberger ironworks. Inferior varieties were used as fertilizer lime. The removal took place with carts. The amount of marble extracted is estimated at around 1.5 million tons.

literature

  • Klaus Hoth, Norbert Krutský, Wolfgang Schilka, Falk Schellenberg: Former Kovářská-vápenka deposit . In: Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie / Sächsisches Oberbergamt (Hrsg.): Marble in the Erzgebirge . Mining in Saxony. 1st edition. tape 16 . Freiberg 2010, p. 66–70 ( PDF, 7.47 MB [accessed February 16, 2014]).
  • "Hornicke Pamatky Montanregionu Krusne hory / Erzgebirge"; "Monuments of Mining in the Mining Region Erzgebirge / Krusnohori", Karlovarsky Kraj (Karlsbad district) / Free State of Saxony, 2014, German / Czech, without ISBN (application documentation for the world cultural heritage "Ore Mountains Mining Region") , "Area of ​​the lime works in Haj near Loucna pod Klinovecem" p. 49

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ore Mountains Mining Region : Area of ​​the lime works in Háj near Loučná pod Klínovcem , accessed on February 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b Former Kovářská-vápenka deposit. In: Marble in the Ore Mountains. ..., p. 66.
  3. ↑ Former deposit Kovářská-Vápenka. In: Marble in the Ore Mountains. ..., p. 67.
  4. ↑ a b c Former Kovářská-vápenka deposit. In: Marble in the Ore Mountains. ..., p. 70.
  5. ↑ Mining and usage history overview. In: Marble in the Ore Mountains. ..., p. 11.

Web links

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

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 '31.4 "  N , 13 ° 1' 28.6"  E