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The Rothe Grube in the Sächsische Meilenbl Blätter from 1791

Rote Grube is a group of houses belonging to the district of Sosa in the town of Eibenstock in the Erzgebirge district , which emerged from two buildings of the disused mine of the same name .

Geographical location

The Rote Grube is located at a height of 801 meters not far south of the intersection of the Eselberger wing with the Rote-Grube-Weg coming from Sosa in a clearing in the forest west of Erlabrunn in the Ore Mountains .

history

The remote district, named after the former Rote Grube mine , consists of only one building, the predecessor of which was a former colliery and a miner's house mentioned in 1584 . The building complex was converted into a nature lovers house in 1929 , which was taken over in 1933 as the home of the Reich Association for German Youth Hostels and became the Landesverband Sachsen e. V. belonged. The Rote Grube youth hostel offered 65 or 63 beds and two day rooms. It was primarily used as a training camp for the Hitler Youth . After the Second World War, the youth hostel was continued. It was given the name " Hans Beimler ", which was put down when the house was returned to nature lovers for use immediately after 1990. There is also a public restaurant in the building.

The Rote Grube was one of the remarkable desert mines away from the larger mining towns. The mining in the Rote Grube reached a depth ( depth ) of 100 laughs . Two wells ( Ping ) that are up to 20 meters deep, tell of the active once operated mining by tin , hematite and manganese . The mine house, newly built in 1648, was acquired by Hammerwerk Blauenthal for three years in 1735 in order to obtain more raw materials for the manufacture of tinplate. At that time 28 miners worked here . Mining ceased around the middle of the 19th century.

In 1798, the almost 18-year-old Sophie Karoline Teubner froze to death while hiking from Sosa to the Rote Grube when she lost her way shortly before Christmas. Miners didn't find her body until five weeks after her death. A memorial stone, which is 100 meters above on the edge of the hiking trail, commemorates them.

traffic

The Rote Grube can be reached from Sosa via the Riesenberger houses , from Erlabrunn via a road following the Milchbach valley and the Rote-Grube-Weg. A regional hiking trail leads across the forest-free area of ​​the Rote Grube. The Friedrichsheider Hochmoor nature reserve, just under a kilometer west of the Rote Grube, can be reached via a forest path.

natural reserve

The meadow in the Rote Grube area is protected as an area natural monument. It has an area of ​​over three hectares and is part of the Natura 2000 area of ​​European importance, low mountain range near Johanngeorgenstadt .

literature

See also

The Rote Grube near Sosa must not be confused with the former Rote Grube mine near Freiberg .

Web links

Commons : Rote Grube  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ at Openstreetmap.org
  2. ↑ Description on the website Sühnekreuz.de , accessed on January 19, 2020
  3. ^ 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
  4. ↑ Description at Natur-im-Erzgebirge.de , accessed on January 23, 2020
  5. ↑ List of natural monuments in the western Ore Mountains , accessed on January 23, 2020
  6. ↑ Description at Uls-Design.de , accessed on January 23, 2020
  7. ↑ See the shaft building of the Rote Grube near Freiberg

Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 30 ″  N , 12 ° 41 ′ 32 ″  E