Mittelschulenberg

Mittelschulenberg Mountain and university town Clausthal-Zellerfeld Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 47 "  N , 10 ° 25 ′ 34"  E
Height :	approx. 430 m above sea level NN
Postal code :	38707
Area code :	05329
Location of Mittelschulenberg in Lower Saxony
Mittelschulenberg

Mittelschulenberg is a settlement in the Altenau-Schulenberg district in the Upper Harz Mountains of the mountain and university town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the Goslar district in Lower Saxony .

location

The district town of Goslar is nine kilometers to the north , the mining town of Altenau is three kilometers south-east and the mining town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld is seven kilometers southwest . The core town of Schulenberg in the Upper Harz is one kilometer to the northeast. Mittelschulenberg is also located on the western bank of the Okertalsperre .

history

Mining

On the Bockswieser Gangzug running near Mittelschulenberg, mining on silver-containing galena was carried out from the end of the 17th to the beginning of the 20th century . In 1697 the St. Martins (or Mertens) colliery near the Oberschulenberg district is mentioned. In the current location of Mittelschulenberg, the Duke August Wilhelm mine opened on June 15, 1703 as the first mine . Emperor Heinrich is said to have had a mine there before that. The exposed ores were of poor quality, so that mining was stopped again in 1728 and only research work was carried out until 1754. Mining ceased completely until the Juliane Sophia mine started operating in 1776.

At the end of the 19th century , only the Juliane Sophie mine near Mittelschulenberg was still in operation in the Schulenberg district. There were several stamp mills on the Weißer Wasser for processing the extracted ores .

After all known ore reserves had been depleted, mining was finally stopped in 1904.

Oberschulenberg belonged to the community of Schulenberg in the Upper Harz , which was incorporated into Clausthal-Zellerfeld on January 1, 2015.

Transport links

Mittelschulenberg is located on state road 517, which branches off about two kilometers northeast of federal road 498 and joins federal road 241 six kilometers west of Mittelschulenberg near Clausthal-Zellerfeld .

literature

• Helmut Pitsch: Hikes around Altenau (Upper Harz). Walks and excursions for guests of Altenau (and Schulenberg), only on foot or by bus or car, taking into account restaurants, interspersing historical data and references to sights in the Harz , Clausthal-Zellerfeld, 1982

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christoph Bartels: From the early modern mining industry to the mining industry . Ore mining in the Upper Harz 1635–1866. Publication No. 54. German Mining Museum, Bochum 1992, ISBN 3-921533-53-8 .
2. ^ The mining and metallurgy of the Upper Harz: With the participation of a number of experts on the occasion of the VI. General German Miners' Days in Hanover, published by H. Banniza, F. Kolckmann, A. Lengemann, A. Sympher, F. Enke, 1895, p. 120 online