Ox head near Jägerhaus
| Ox head near Jägerhaus | ||
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| height | 823.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 30 '4 " N , 12 ° 41' 42" E | |
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Ochsenkopf is the name of a forest-covered 823.4 m above sea level. NHN high mountain near Jägerhaus in the Saxon Ore Mountains south of the state road between Schwarzenberg and Sosa . It hardly stands out from the almost equally high surroundings - the Jägerhaus is 782 m high. According to the natural space map of Saxony , the Ochsenkopf summit is located in the microgeochore "Ochsenkopf plateau", which is part of the mesogeochore "Bockauer plateau".
Breakdown of emery and other minerals
August Schumann reported in Volume 7 of his Saxony Lexicon from 1820 on the Ochsenkopf and the earlier extraction of emery on the Ochsenkopf:
- “Ochsenkopf, the name of a sizable mountain, mostly covered with blackwood [...]. The mountain is said to have got its name from its shape, although of course the imagination gets a tough job. An old road leads over the same from Schneeberg and Bockau to Johanngeorgenstadt , which is now completely unused as a road, even pedestrians prefer to choose the strong path over Eibenstock than this lonely path leading through vast forests. The ox head is most remarkable because of a pit in which the best emery was stolen, which stone cutters preferred to Spanish and which was much sought after; in Dresden the centner was usually 60 thaler. Now it is found in too small stages and is therefore no longer won; The Saxon stone cutters use, instead of him and instead of the Spanish emery, which is not always available, knocked base garnets, especially from the Zöblitz serpentine stone. You can also find red lead path on the Ochsenkopf. ” In Volume 2 of 1815, Schumann described the Ochsenkopf as “ a considerable mountain range ” .
In 1819 Karl Ernst Adolf von Hoff wrote in Volume 20 - Kingdom of Saxony - of his geographical reader:
- “The best Saxon loach was dug at the Ochsenkopf ”.
1778 reported by Charpentier that from the mining of the well-known emery in the pit "Erzbaum Christi", which was still carried out in 1714, only "excavated pits, pings and a few shafts" remained. In 1752 it was reported that the emery quarry was excellent.
Even Alexander von Humboldt mentioned the Ochsenkopf in his work Geognostischer Essay on the storage of mountain species in both hemispheres . The green stone occurs in the granites leading to tin ore and thus on the Ochsenkopf.
In the chemical dictionary of 1809 the importance of the mining site Ochsenkopf becomes clear. At that time, other places where emery was found besides the one on Ochsenkopf were only known on Naxos, in Old Castile and in Estremadura. In his General and Chemical Geology from the end of the 19th century, Justus Roth points out that the Ochsenkopf contains quartz phyllite from Beilstein, talc and meneghinite-accompanied emery. The Beilstein found on the Ochsenkopf is already dealt with in the Handbook of Mineralogy from 1815. In 1848 Johann Traugott Lindner describes attempts to resume the dismantling of the famous ox head emery, which "was rewarded with cracks, but remained unrewarded because of failed sales at the earlier higher price".
Ox head at George Körner's
In additions and annals to the Bockau Chronicle of New Years 1764 , the Bockau pastor George Körner reports several times on events at the Ochsenkopf:
- “On June 26th, 1577, the woods on the Ochsenkopf were ignited […], that many 1000 trays were turned to ashes and most of the wood that was still standing was scorched. Dabey had to extinguish man in the woods around 1500 that day and the Churfürstl. Save pitch forests; so many people and cattle also died over it. […] In 1595, Duke Friedrich Wilhelm hunted down to Sachßen, the Chur-Saxons and Churfürstl. Prince Administrator on the ox head and had all game, young and old, shot down between Schlettau and Eybenstock, so that the game fences could be spared. […] 1603 at the end of July, Sr. Churfürstl. Through Duke Christian the Andre with theo Hr. Brother Johann George in this area, and thereby moved over the Ochsenkopf to Schwarzenberg. […] In […] the year 1644 a lux was caught on the ox head, and Christian Rosenlöcher was very damaged. "
In Old and New News, George Körner reported in detail about the mining of emery on the Ochsenkopf in New Years 1761 about the mountain town of Bockau near Schneeberg in the Meissnian Upper Mountains, which contain something about the laudable mine there . According to this description, imports from Spain, England and Sweden were no longer necessary due to this local emery, after the importance and value of the rock, which has been mined since 1714, has been recognized.
literature
- Ox head . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 7th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1820, p. 725 f.
additional
The Leipzig student Elisabeth Charlotte Müller was killed in 1930 near the road from Bockau to Jägerhaus, quite a distance from the Ochsenkopf in the forest at an altitude of about 720 meters. A memorial stone reminds of this.
Web links
- "The ox head" in sheet 222 of the Berlin copy of the Meilen Blätter von Sachsen by Friedrich Ludwig Aster from 1791 ( link to the map in the Dresden State and University Library )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Research map of the Landscape Research Center Dresden (LfZ) Link to the research map
- ↑ Ox head . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 7th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1820, p. 725 f. Digitized
- ↑ [1] . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 2nd volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1815, p. 588 f.
- ↑ Karl Ernst Adolf von Hoff: Latest country and ethnology. A geographic reader. 20th volume. Containing the kingdom and duchies of Saxony . No. 1. With charts and copper. In the publishing house of the Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, Weimar 1918, p. 213 digitized
- ^ Johann Friedrich Wilhelm von Charpentier : Mineralogical Geography of the Chursächsischen Lande , bey Siegfried Leberecht Crusius, Leipzig 1778, p. 245 digitized
- ↑ New attempts at useful collections on the history of nature and art, especially from Upper Saxony , Part 25, Verlag Carl Wilhelm Fulde, Schneeberg 1752, p. (Link to the digitized version )
- ↑ Alexander von Humboldt: Geognostic experiment on the storage of mountain types in both halves of the earth , from FG Levrault, Strasbourg 1823, p. 80 digitalisat
- ↑ Martin Heinrich Klaproth and Friedrich Wolff: Chemical Dictionary , fourth volume P-Schw. In the Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1809, p. 610 digitized
- ↑ Justus Roth: General and Chemical Geology , Berlin 1879-1887, p. 445 digitized
- ^ Christian AS Hoffmann and August Breithaupt: Handbuch der Mineralogie , 2nd volume, 2nd section, near Graz and Gerlach, Freiberg 1815, p. 249 f. Digitized
- ^ Johann Traugott Lindner : Walks through the most interesting areas of the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains. A contribution to the more special knowledge of the same, of its popular life, of the types of trade, customs and traditions. With 12 lithographs , Verlag Rudolph und Dieterici, Annaberg 1848, p. 25 digitized
- ↑ George Körner: Entries and Annales to the Bockauische Chronik vom Neuenjahre 1764 , Volume 2 Continuation of the Entries to the Bockauischen Chronik to the year 1764, Fuldische Schriften, Schneeberg, (unpag.) Digitized
- ↑ George Körner: Old and New News from the mountain town of Bockau near Schneeberg in the Meissnischen Obergebirge , which hold something of the laudable mine there, for the New Year 1761 and so in the future in parts communicated by M. George Körner, P. 10th piece, by Karl Wilhelm Fulden, Schneeberg (no year, 1761), p. 446ff. Digitized in the Bavarian State Library in Munich
- ^ Text on the memorial stone at the crime scene , accessed on March 10, 2015