Magic train
The Kauber Zug is a slate train within the Rhenish Slate Mountains , in which the slate layers appear in a building-worthy quality to form the horizon .
Emergence
The originally horizontal layers of the Kauber Zug were created within the Greywacke slate and quartz deposits of the Devonian . By folds and thrusts layers are equipped with a dip caused by 70 ° or more in the southeast direction.
location
Beginning in the Idarwald on the left bank of the Rhine, the Kauber Zug crosses the Rhine between Bacharach and Oberwesel and continues on the right bank of the Rhine in a north-easterly direction via Kaub and Weisel to Usingen . The deposits at Kaub are at their greatest extent and represent a top level in terms of their usability . For this reason, they gave the entire train its name.
Mines
Selection of mines that dismantled the camps of the Kauber Zug:
| Surname | location | Operating times | Operating company | comment | image |
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| Wilhelm Erbstollen | location | 1837-1972 | Gebr. Puricelli'sche Betriebsgesellschaft Vereinigte Schieferwerke Schilling & Co. |
Association of over 20 pits |
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| Ernestine | location | since 1899 at Wilhelm-Erbstollen |
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| Racer | location | 1883–1887 1920–1930 1935-? |
to Wilhelm-Erbstollen |
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| Victoria | location | 1867 to the late 1950s | Union of Viktoriastollen Gebr. Puricelli'sche Betriebsgesellschaft |
Merger of 9 pits |
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| Kreuzberg-Wilhelmsberg | location | 1868-1980 | Union of Blücher | consolidated with Wilhelmsberg bei Wollmanders . Last roof slate pit on the Middle Rhine |
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| Good luck for | location | around 1873-? 1950-1959 |
United Slate Works Schilling & Co. | consolidated with Vogelsang. Formerly Eckert. |
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| Heppenberg | location | 1843–1866 ? until 1975 |
Rheinische Schieferbergwerke RH Wolff Rheinisches Mineralmahlwerk RHWolff Gustav Grolman, Düsseldorf |
from 1952 only material extraction for the grinder built in 1929-30 | |
| North Star & Marcellus | location | 1861-1866 1920-1953 |
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| Wilhelmine | location | 1830-1866 1922-1954 |
Wilhelmine Slate Quarry Union | ||
| Hundsberg | location | 1847-1865 1925-1929 |
Rheinische Schieferbergwerke RH Wolff |
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| Rosit | location | 1741-1964 | today a nature reserve | ||
| Meier's hope | location | ||||
| Rhine | location | since 1889 | Schieferwerk Bacharach GmbH | Dismantling of roofing slate until 1965. Since then, production of slate flour and sales of foreign products |
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literature
- Fritz Isert Descriptions of Rhineland-Palatinate Mining Authority Districts Volume 2: Description of the Mining Authority District of Diez , Verlag Glückauf, Essen 1968, p. 177 ff.
- Frank and Ralf Staudt Slate mining around Kaub in: Mining in the Rhein-Lahn district , publisher: Rhein-Lahn district administration, 1994, p. 65 ff.
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