Mineralogical collection of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg
The Mineralogical Collection of the TU Bergakademie Freiberg is a research collection of minerals at the TU Freiberg in Freiberg .
history
The history of the collection goes back to Abraham Gottlob Werner , Carl Friedrich Christian Mohs , Friedrich August Breithaupt , Albin Julius Weisbach (1833–1901), Friedrich Ludwig Wilhelm Kolbeck and Helmut von Philipsborn (1892–1983), each responsible for administration, expansion and Completion of the stocks were responsible. When the Bergakademie reopened in 1946, Friedrich Leutwein (1911–1974) and in 1958 Hans Jürgen Rösler took over the management of the collection. An extensive international exchange network was set up in order to be able to continue the completion even under difficult financial circumstances.
collection
Significant historical holdings in the collection are the originals of the mineral discoveries by Werner, Breithaupt and Weisbach, as well as the Rittersgrüner Meteorit and the Werner estate. More recent holdings of comparable importance are a Proustit collection from Schlema , silver specimens from Pöhla , bismuth crystal specimens from Schlema and whewellite crystals from Freital, Schlema and Ronneburg. The collection today comprises around 80,000 inventoried items.
exhibition
The systematic exhibition is organized according to the structure of Karl Hugo Strunz and the textbook "Special Mineralogy" by Hans Jürgen Rösler. Both crystal chemical data and genetic relationships are taken into account. A regional exhibition shows minerals from the eastern federal states with the main focus: "Minerals of the Ore Mountains". In addition, there were and are special exhibitions with z. B. the following topics:
- Crystallography
- Jewelery and precious stones
- Meteorites
- Pseudomorphoses
- Whewellite
- Minerals in Organisms
- Historical minerals and Saxon type localities
- Silicified wood
- Amber