Prinzkogel
| Prinzkogel (Prinzenkogel) | ||
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 Prinzkogel as seen from Feistritztal (west) |
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| height | 1273 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Feistritztal near Rettenegg | |
| Mountains | Wechselgebiet , foothills east of the Mur | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 30 '49 " N , 15 ° 48' 43" E | |
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The Prinzkogel , often also called Prinzenkogel , is 1273 m above sea level. A. high summit in Eastern Styria . It belongs to the Wechsel area , a subgroup of the peripheral mountains east of the Mur or the Styrian peripheral mountains .
The mountain is an old lead and silver mining area and is known as a mineral find.
Location and landscape
The mountain rises to the right in the uppermost Feistritztal , and forms part of the southwestern foothills of the Wechsel massif. This ridge starts at the Hochwechsel summit ( 1743 m above sea level ), the ridge of the Prinzkogel begins at Herrenstein ( 1448 m above sea level ) above the Hochwechselstrasse, and together with the Mieseck ( 1385 m above sea level ) it forms the northernmost branch of this branched foothill. It leads over the Wagnerhöhe ( 1129 m above sea level ), and runs - between Rettenegg an der Feistritz north and Innerer Kaltenegg am Kaltenbach south - over the Prinzkogel plateau and summit, the saddle Waldandacht ( 1068 m above sea level ). and the Kalteneggkogel ( 1125 m above sea level ) down to Feistritz near Wasserstatt . The gentle ridge is completely wooded, with several clear cuts, and densely spanned by forest roads.
Geology and history
The name is probably a corruption of Prünse / Prümse / Prünst / Prinst , which means ' burnt , charred patch of lawn'.
The Bergstock is formed from Semmering quartzite ( Alpine Verrucano , Siliziklastika des Permoskyth ), and lies exactly on the border of the Waldbach crystalline , the deepest Eastern Alpine ceiling, to the Semmering unit in the changing window .
In 1738 the Vorau Abbey began mining for lead and silver. It created Erbstollen (water discharge), a Poch- and Schlämmwerk and a smelter . The priest who led the mining had (as was often the case in the pioneering days of the Theresian eighteenth century) only well-read knowledge of mining, there were problems with dewatering, and the deposits were sulphidic and difficult to smelt. As early as 1744, the monastery had a deficit of 20,000 guilders, and even a private investor who had moved in could not save the mine. In 1747 the business was stopped again. In 1772, Ignaz Reichenberg, who had managed the Gußwerk / Mariazell ironworks for Lambrecht Abbey , temporarily resumed dismantling.
In addition to various precious metal and quartz minerals, uranium mica can also be found here .
literature
- J. Steinhausz: Occurrence of silver-rich lead ores in NE Styria near Rettenegg, rats. In: Association messages. Supplement to Oesterreichische Zeitschrift für Berg- und Hüttenwesen . XXXIV year, Vienna 1886, No. 6, pp. 55–59.
- Christian Auer: The silver and lead mining of the Prinzenkogel near Rettenegg, Styria. In: Lapis , 25, Heft 9 (2000), pp. 26-30.
- Dietmar Jakely, Franz Bernhard, Alfred Weiss: The minerals of the silver-lead-zinc ore deposits on the Prinzenkogel near Rettenegg in Eastern Styria. = Joannea Mineralogie , 5; The Styrian mineralogist. Special volume 1, 2008; pp. 1–159, PDF on ZOBODAT
- Gerhard Kaller, Uwe Kolitsch, Peter Tomazic: Silver and lead mining on the Prinzenkogel - a well-visited mining area that keeps on making beautiful finds. In: The Styrian Mineralogist. 25 (2011), pp. 39-42, PDF on ZOBODAT
- W. Tufar: The ore deposits of the change area. In: Bulletin of the Department of Mineralogy at the Landesmuseum Joanneum , Issue 1 (1963), p. OA (whole article 1-60).
Web links
- Prinzenkogel (Prinzkogel) . Entry in mineralienatlas.de (with references).
- Prinzkogel mines . Entry in mindat.org (English, with references).
Individual evidence
- ↑ (Unknown article. In :) Journal of the Historisches Verein für Steiermark 76/77 (1985/86), p. 319-
- ↑ a b To this Erik Flügel: Styrian mining 200 years ago. A cross-section through the Styrian mining history of the 18th century. In: Blätter für Heimatkunde , published by the Historisches Verein für Steiermark, 31st year, Graz 1957, pp. 115–122 ( article online , Sagen.at: Bergbau ).
- ↑ G. Kurat, A. Kracher, and G. Niedermayer: Die Uranmineralisation im Kaltenegg, Steiermark. A contribution to the genesis of the Permian uranium deposits. In: Advances in Mineralogy , 58/1 (1980).