Riesenberg houses

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The Riesenberg houses

The Riesenberger houses are a group of houses belonging to the Sosa district of the town of Eibenstock in the Saxon Ore Mountains .

history

At the Riesenberg , which is in the immediate vicinity of the Auersberg , tin-making (i.e. mining of tin ) and later iron-stone mining was carried out. In the middle of the first half of the 19th century, the trade union colliery Tiefer Riesenberger Erbstolln and three self-contained mines were in operation. The three Riesenberg houses that existed in 1850 were first mentioned in a document in 1739.

Albert Schiffner mentions a "house on Rieserberg" in his handbook about Saxony published in 1839.

In the middle of the 20th century, the small settlement existed at an altitude of 800 meters above sea level. NN. from two preserved old half-timbered houses , two other residential buildings and some stables and barns. Today the Riesenberg houses are operated as a mountain inn and guesthouse.

On July 26, 1984, a MiG-23UB of the 296th APIB ( Russian авиационный полк истребителей-бомбардировщиков , "296th Fighter-Bomber Regiment " of the Altenburg air force of the Soviet Air Force ) crashed not far from the Riesenberg houses . Both pilots were killed.

traffic

The Rieserberg houses can be reached from Sosa via the Hirschknochenweg, which runs southwards. At the nature reserve Friedrichsheider Hochmoor , which lies north of the Riesenberger houses, leaving the Hirschknochenweg, you can get to the Naturfreundehaus Rote Grube . From the Johanngeorgenstadt district of Steinbach , Sosaer Straße leads north to the Riesenberger houses. The regional hiking trail, on which you can get from Auersberg to Erlabrunn or Jägerhaus , passes them.

natural reserve

The meadow in the area of ​​the Riesenberg houses is protected as an area natural monument and is part of the Natura 2000 area of ​​European importance, low mountain range near Johanngeorgenstadt .

literature

  • Giant mountain . In: August Schumann : Complete State, Post and Newspaper Lexicon of Saxony. 9th volume. Schumann, Zwickau 1822, p. 182.
  • Siegfried Sieber: Around Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 165.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Schiffner: Handbook of geography, statistics and topography of the Kingdom of Saxony. First delivery, containing the Zwickau directions district. Leipzig 1839, p. 195 ( digitized version )
  2. ^ Landesvermessungsamt Sachsen (ed.): Hiking map of Saxony. Sheet 15-Westerzgebirge, Eibenstock, Johanngeorgenstadt , scale 1: 25,000, 1st edition, Dresden 1996, ISBN 3-86170-717-9
  3. ↑ List of natural monuments in the western Ore Mountains , accessed on January 23, 2020

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '  N , 12 ° 41'  E