Katharina (treasure trove)
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Katharina , also called Catharina at the time , was a treasure trove in the Johanngeorgenstadt mountain area in the Saxon Ore Mountains .
location
On the middle Fastenberg , on which Johanngeorgenstadt extends, several pits were operated in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries for the extraction of directly adjacent ore veins . This also included the treasure trove Katharina and Katharina Stolln, presumed in 1697 . With the tunnel, the water from the neighboring Elisabeth treasure trove was also loosened in 1710/11. In the quarter of Reminiscere 1707 the mine struck gold. On November 8, 1714, a treasure trove as well as the 1st to 8th upper dimensions and the 1st to 8th lower dimensions were awarded as part of the inheritance . By then, the mine had yielded 1,304 kg of silver. In 1775 the Elisabeth Fundgrube was mentioned together with the Katharina Fundgrube . The date of the takeover is still unknown. From 1778 the ore father Jacob, muted in 1708 and defeated to the archangel in 1715, belongs to the mine field. The mine was operated until 1818 when it was combined with the Silberkammer treasure trove . Already in 1708 one was in the pit Kunstgezeug installed. The remaining pit water was initially released by Catharina Stolln and Adolphus Stolln , later also by Eleonora Stolln and finally also by the grace of God Stolln .
By 1800, 4,150 kg of silver had been extracted from this treasure trove.
The hat house of the pit and its dump have been preserved to this day.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Christian Engelschall: Description of the exiles and mountain town Johann Georgen city . Friedrich Lanckischen's heirs and Christoph Kircheisen, Leipzig 1723, p. 231 .
literature
- Christian Salomon Zeidler : The noble [...] mountain building [...] wanted to measure [...] during the [...] hereditary measurement of the Catharina silver mines on the fasting mountain in Johann Georgen Stadt [...] , Fulda 1714
- Otfried Wagenbreth et al .: Mining in the Ore Mountains . Technical monuments and history. Ed .: Otfried Wagenbreth, Eberhard Wächtler . 1st edition. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-342-00509-2 , p. 293 .
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Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 5.6 " N , 12 ° 42 ′ 19.6" E