Bones (Raschau-Markersbach)
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 The bone in Raschau |
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| height | 551.4 m | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 32 '19 " N , 12 ° 49' 17" E | |
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The bone between Raschau-Markersbach and Schwarzenberg is 551.4 meters above sea level. NN. high harder in the Saxon Ore Mountains .
description
The hill rises about 100 meters above the level of the Schwarzbachtal valley running north and the bottom of the Großer Mittweida in the south and is traversed by several veins and deposits. In this come -ferrous metal - Skarne that partly as gravel bearing are formed and pyrite perform as well as changes of a bismuth - cobalt - nickel - silver -Formation before.
As early as the 17th century, numerous pits were operated in the bone. One of the most important mines was the All Saints' Treasure Trove , in which silver, bismuth and cobalt ores were mined in 1713 , along with Seegen Gottes , St. Paulus and Drei Brüder . A vitriol and sulfur smelter was built next to the mine in the middle of the 18th century. Since 1818 it has also been producing arsenic in five furnaces , which was sold to paint factories in Hamburg, France and Austria. After the Allerheiligenhütte in Raschau had ceased operations in the meantime due to government competition from Freiberg in 1871, it was restarted by Beierfeld in 1876.
literature
- Siegfried Sieber: Around Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972, pp. 89f.