Pechöfer dig

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On the left the place where the Pechöfer trench overflowed to the Jugelbach
Coming from the right, the water from the overflow of the Pechöfer trench ran into the Jugelbach at this point

The Pechöfer Graben (also: Hohneujahrer Pochwäschgraben ) is a former mining facility in Johanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge in Saxony .

It is an approx. 4 km long artificial moat that supplied the water of the Pechöferbaches to the operation of the numerous mines and stamping works in the Lehmer- and Jugelgrund. The plant was built under the supervision of the Johanngeorgenstadt Mining Authority in the 18th century. The water was branched off from the Pechöferbach below the Scheffelsberg in Oberjugel at a weir ( 50 ° 24 ′ 28 ″  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 27.1 ″  E ) and led along the mountain slopes into the Lehmergrund, where the process water was a little below the mouth the sulfur stream flowed over the Jugelbach . The overflow strengthened its water flow. The artificial ditch led parallel to the Jugelbach a little further down the valley to the Hohneujahrer Poch wash at the Gegenglück Stolln ( 50 ° 25 ′ 34.9 ″  N , 12 ° 42 ′ 50 ″  E ).

The moat was maintained until after the First World War, but then fell into disrepair. As a result of the uranium mining by SDAG Wismut after 1945, the trench was filled in in several places with heap material. Its remains can hardly be seen in the area today.

Web links

Commons : Pechöfer Graben  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ measuring table sheet 5542: Johanngeorgenstadt, 1937
  2. ^ Robert Jahn : Johanngeorgenstadt and surroundings in words and pictures. Chemnitz [approx. 1913], p. 16