Saxon coal deposits and coal deposits

Coal mining has played a major role in Saxony since the 18th century. While the extent of the hard coal deposits was limited and mining was stopped in 1967, lignite mining still plays a major role and contributes to the security of supply for electrical energy in Germany.

Hard coal

There were three large coal deposits in Saxony: Zwickau , Lugau-Oelsnitz and the Döhlen basin . In addition, some small deposits were of at least local importance. These include the Flöha Basin, the Borna-Ebersdorfer Basin, the Hainichen Basin and the small deposits Olbernhau / Brandov, Schönfeld and Rehefeld-Zaunhaus. The beginning of the coal mining is proven for the year 1348. Coal mining was finally stopped in 1978.

Zwickau

Oberhohndorf subformation	Elliges seam Oberbank	1.50–2.50 m thick
	Elliges seam lower bench	0.60–3.00 m thick
	Double-cell seam	1.10–1.40 m thick
	Shard coal seam	0.40–1.90 m thick
	Fief coal seam	0.50–2.60 m thick
Marienthal-Pöhlau subformation	Zach coal seam I	0.70–1.00 m thick
	Zach coal seam II	1.00–3.00 m thick
	Stratified coal seam I	0.90-3.00 m thick
	Stratified coal seam II	1.30–2.40 m thick
	Layered coal seam III	0.90–2.00 m thick
	Soot coal seam I	1.00–3.00 m thick
	Soot Coal Seam II	0.60–1.10 m thick
	Soot Coal Seam III	1.50–2.40 m thick
	Deep Planitz seam, upper section	0.50–4.00 m thick
	Deep Planitz seam lower section	0.60–3.00 m thick
	Amandus seam	1.50–5.00 m thick
Schedewitz subformation	Ludwigflöz upper department	0.50–1.00 m thick
	Ludwigflöz middle section	1.50–3.00 m thick
	Ludwigflöz lower section	0.50–2.00 m thick
	Blessing God's seam upper section	0.60–3.00 m thick
	Blessing God's seam middle section	0.60–2.30 m thick
	Blessing God's seam lower section	0.70–2.50 m thick

Of these deposits, the Zwickau coal field was the most extensive and important. The Zwickau coal was the first to be discovered and the last one to be mined.

The coals of the basin were created in the Westphalian C / D of the Upper Carboniferous with an age of 305 to 308 million years. 22 seams and seam banks are formed. They are assigned to 3 formations. The stratified coal seam and the soot coal seam were spread over almost the entire deposit. The distribution of the two deepest seams, the Ludwig seam and the Segen-Gottes seam, was limited to the urban area of Zwickau. The elligous seams were only present as relics in the urban area of Zwickau and in the Mülsener Revier. All seams were built up to the construction limit.

The beginning of the mining industry is documented for the year 1348, it probably goes back to the 11th century. The first document on mining dates from 1493. The landowners mined the seams in the area of the outcrop. It started in the southernmost part of the district in the Planitzer Flur. However, the output was low due to a lack of sales. Between 1601 and 1700, around 1,170 tons of coal were mined annually. Only after 1817 with the economic upswing did a noticeable increase in funding begin. In 1821 it was around 13,200 tons of coal. Small and very small businesses continued to dominate. Neither a request by the Freiberg Oberbergamt nor by the sovereign to unite the small pits in order to be able to do economic work in larger mine fields had an effect. Only in the Five Neighbor Pit in 1838 and in United Field in 1850 did several small pits merge. The mine fields owned by the landowners were dismantled until stocks were exhausted. In 1846 there were 99 pits in the district. Their number fell to 49 companies by 1851, but in 1860 it had risen to 60 mines. There were only a few companies that had large fields and were economically able to mine the deep seams. Although no agreement could be reached on the amalgamation of building plots, they joined forces on dewatering and founded the Bockwaer Wasserhaltunggesellschaft in 1851, which was responsible for dewatering in the area until 1898. Of the 63 mines extracting in 1868, 36 were privately owned. In 1887 there were only 5 of 21 mining pits left. As a result of the First World War, larger mines were merged, but at the same time, due to the lack of coal, new small mines were founded. By amalgamating mining operations, two large corporations were created at the beginning of the Second World War. In 1946 3 plants were created with new names. In 1951, after stocks were exhausted, the shafts of the VEB Steinkohlenwerk August Bebel were shut down. In 1973 the shafts of the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Karl Marx were shut down and the mine was run as the operating department of the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Martin Hoop. The last hunt coal for industrial use was mined on Martin Hoop in 1978.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Arnim's coal works	1698	1923	Planitz	from 1923 to the Erzgebirge Steinkohlen Aktienverein
Old community Bockwa	1569	1912	Bockwa	from 1912 to the Erzgebirge Steinkohlen Aktienverein
Bring happiness	1855 1891	1885 1902	Oberhohndorf	set
Bockwaer Pfarrlehn	1597	1874	Bockwa	set
Drescher, coal plant	1842	1869	Bockwa	set
Ebert, Christian Gotthilf coal works	1855	1871	Oberhohndorf	from 1871 to Beschert Glück
Ebert, Friedrich coal works	1865	1893	Oberhohndorf	set
Ebert, Johann Gottfried coal works	1843	1886	Bockwa	set
Ehrler brothers, coal plant	1847	1869	Oberhohndorf	set
Ehrler and company, Ferdinand, coal works	1847	1885	Oberhohndorf	reduced
unity	1861	1883	Oberhohndorf	from 1883 to Beschert Glück
Erzgebirgischer Steinkohlen Aktienverein Steinkohlenwerk August Bebel	1840 1946	1945 1951	Bockwa Schedewitz	reduced
Falk, August coal works	1854	1875	Bockwa	set
Falk, August and comrades coal factory	1854	1875	Bockwa	set
Falk, Carl Gottlieb coal works	1831	1916	Bockwa	from 1916 to the Erzgebirgischer Steinkohlen Aktienverein
Falk, Johann Gotthilf Steinkohlenwerk Falk, Johann Gotthilf Erben Steinkohlenwerk	1835 1855	1855 1885	Bockwa	set
Friedrich, heirs, coal works	1825	1877	Bockwa	set
Friedrich and Thost, coal works	1861	1876	Bockwa	set
Frisch Glück coal mine	1854	1893	Oberhohndorf	from 1893 to the Oberhohndorf coal works
Fritzsche, coal works	1854	1882	Bockwa	reduced
Five neighbor pit	1839	1878	Oberhohndorf	from 1878 to United Field
Hering & Co. hard coal works	1815	1883	Bockwa	reduced
Herrschel, coal plant	1847	1899	Bockwa Oberhohndorf	reduced
Kästner, Brothers coal works	1850	1873	Bockwa	set
Kästner, Carl Gotthilf hard coal works	1857	1925	Oberhohndorf	set
Kästner and Emmerlich, coal works	1923	1946	Bockwa	set
Kästner, Erben Steinkohlenwerk	1849	1886	Bockwa	set
Kästner, Florentin and Compagnie Steinkohlenwerk	1868	1910	Reinsdorf	from 1910 to Morgenstern
Kästner, Gotthilf hard coal works Kästner, Gotthilf Erben hard coal works	1820 1832	1832 1869	Oberhohndorf	set
Klötzer and the coal works company	1861	1877	Bockwa	set
Klötzer, Johann David Erben coal works	1830	1876	Bockwa	set
Klötzer, jun. Coal plant	1845	1879	Oberhohndorf	1879 to United Field
Coal Stock Company Fortuna	1858	1875	Neudörfel	from 1875 to Schmidt's heirs, coal works
Kraft & Lücke, hard coal works	1847	1878	Cainsdorf Bockwa	set
Lehefeldgrube	1840	1879	Oberhohndorf	reduced
List, Heinrich Gotthilf coal works	1843	1883	Bockwa	set
Möckel & Co. hard coal works	1839	1875	Bockwa	set
Morgenstern Martin Hoop coal works	1867 1946	1946 1978	Reinsdorf Pöhlau Mülsen St. Jacob Mülsen St. Niclas	reduced
Oberhohndorf Altgemeinde Steinkohlenwerk Steinkohlenwerk Oberhohndorf	1740 1871	1870 1901	Oberhohndorf	from 1901 to the Oberhohndorfer-Schader coal-mining association
Oberhohndorfer-Forst coal industry association	1859	1904	Oberhohndorf	reduced
Oberhohndorfer-Schader coal mining association	1855	1906	Oberhohndorf	from 1906 to the Zwickau-Oberhohndorfer hard coal mining association
Rau & Co., hard coal works	1855	1873	Oberhohndorf	from 1873 to Johann Gottlieb Winter's coal works
Reinhold, Carl Gottlieb coal works	1874	1885	Bockwa	from 1885 to the old community of Bockwa
Reinhold, Johann Gotthilf, hard coal works	1832	1870	Bockwa	reduced
Reinhold, Robert Coal Works	1854	1888	Bockwa	reduced
Sarfert, Carl Gottlieb, Erben Steinkohlenwerk	1853	1878	Schedewitz	reduced
Sarfert, Heinrich Ferdinand, heirs of the coal works	1840	1886	Bockwa	reduced
Sarfert, Johann Gottlieb, Erben Steinkohlenwerk	1843	1885	Bockwa	from 1885 to the old community of Bockwa
Schmidt, Erben Steinkohlenwerk	1851	1885	Bockwa	from 1885 to the Zwickau coal mining association
Hard coal mining association Hermannsgrube	1850	1865	Oberhohndorf	Dismantling not recorded
Coal plant Ernst August Haugk coal plant Arthur	1910 1923	1923 1932	Oberhohndorf	set
Hammerwald coal mine	1920	1946	Oberhohndorf	set
United field	1850	1890	Oberhohndorf	reduced
Vorderneudörfel-Niederplanitzer Steinkohlenbauverein Steinkohlenbauverein Himmelsfürst	1847 1963	1863 1878	Planitz	from 1873 to the Erzgebirge Steinkohlen Aktienverein
Winter, Johann Gottlieb coal works	1856	1882	Bockwa	reduced
Würker, Gottlieb Felix coal works	1839	1878	Bockwa	set
Würker, Heinrich (Junior) Hard Coal Works Würker and Compagnie Steinkohlenwerk	1855 1870	1870 1874	Bockwa	set
Zwickau Hard Coal Association	1837	1920	Zwickau	from 1920 to the Erzgebirgischen Steinkohlen Aktienverein
Zwickauer Brückenberg Steinkohlenbauverein Steinkohlenwerk Karl Marx	1855 1946	1920 1973	Zwickau	from 1920 to Morgenstern
Zwickauer Bürgerschaft Aktienverein	1841	1920	Zwickau	from 1920 to the Erzgebirgischen Steinkohlen Aktienverein
Zwickau Oberhohndorfer Hard Coal Association	1854	1936	Oberhohndorf Reinsdorf	reduced

Companies with shaft depths and drilling tests in the empty space

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Crimmitzschau-Rudelswalder coal mining association	1855	1857	Rudelswalde	empty
Gablenz coal company	1840		Gablenz	empty
Glauchau coal mining association	1872	1878	Rothenbach	Hole abandoned after 706 meters
Glauchau Rothenbacher Steinkohlen Atienverein	1847	1848	Rothenbach	Hole abandoned after 122 meters
Luck on the coal plant		1872	Tower	Hole abandoned after 790 meters
Härtensdorfer Aktienverein	1847	1848	Härtensdorf	empty
Lichtenstein-St. Egidien Mining Company	1857	1860	St. Egidien	empty
Oberhohndorf-Vielauer Association	1857	1870	Vielau	unworthy of construction
Planitzer Steinkohlen Aktienverein	1840	1857	Planitz	empty
Pöhlauer Steinkohlenbau Verein	1857		Pöhlau	empty
Pölbitzer coal mining association		1857	Pölbitz	empty
Reinsdorfer Steinkohlenbau Verein	1871	1875	Reinsdorf	unworthy of construction
Saxon-Altenburg coal mining association	1858	1862	Grünberg	empty
Saxon mining and ironworks company	1850	1860	Reinsdorf	Depth set after 20 meters
Weißenborner Steinkohlen Aktienverein	1856	1857	Weissenborn	empty
Werzeit coal mining association	1856	1857	Fraureuth	empty
Wildenfels-Härtensdorfer Steinkohlenaktienverein	1854	1857	Härtensdorf	empty
Zwickau-Auerbacher coal mining association			Auerbach	empty
Zwickau-Berlin coal industry association		1858	Pods
Zwickau-Leipzig hard coal mining association	1857	1861	Reinsdorf	unworthy of construction
Zwickau-Oberreinsdorf coal mining association	1857	1860	Reinsdorf	empty
Zwickau-Planitzer coal mining association	1856		Planitz	empty
Zwickau-Reinsdorfer coal mining association	1857		Reinsdorf	empty
Zwickau-Schönauer coal industry association	1857		Schönau	empty
Zwickau-Vielauer coal mining association	1857		Vielau	empty

Lugau-Oelsnitz

Pits of the Lugau-Oelsnitzer Basin (around 1872)

Neuflöz subformation	Neuflöz 1	3.00 m thick
	Neuflöz 2	2.00 m thick
	Neuflöz 3	1.00 m thick
	Neuflöz 4	1.80 m thick
Hope seam subformation	Upper seam	1.00–2.00 m thick
Hope seam subformation	Hope seam	0.80–2.00 m thick
Main seam subformation	Glückaufflöz	0.30–2.00 m thick
	Trust seam	0.80–3.20 m thick
	Main seam	2.00–6.00 m thick
	Main seam bank	0.80–1.80 m thick
	Intermediate seam	0.60–1.10 m thick
	Ground seam	0.60-3.20 m thick
Lugau subformation	Kneisel seam	0.30–1.40 m thick
	Unnamed seam 1	0.40–2.20 m thick
	Boghead seam	0.40–1.20 m thick
	Unnamed seam 2	0.30–1.00 m thick

The origin of the coal-bearing strata falls in the Westphalian C / D of the Upper Carboniferous with an age of 305–308 million years. 16 seams are formed. They are assigned to 4 formations. The bottom, main, trust and luck seams were spread over almost the entire deposit. The other seams were only partially represented. All seams were built up to the construction limit. The coal was discovered on the outcrop of the seams in Neuoelsnitz in 1831. However, the investigations carried out were discontinued in 1835. It was not until 1843 that coal was mined again, and after finding 3 seams, mining began in 1844.

Between 1843 and 1846, 16 companies were founded and 3 owner-occupied companies started operations. In 1846 28 pits and shafts were in operation. The uncertain times for investors caused 15 companies to end quickly. From 1854 there was an upswing and another 16 companies were founded by 1860. But even here only six companies survived the first 5 years. The reasons for failure are many. Some of the companies sunk shafts up to 700 meters deep in the empty seam area, or the seams found were not worth building. This was initiated by geological reports. It was only after the Franco-Prussian War and the economic boom in 1871 that investors found new mining companies. 14 companies were founded in 1871/72. But even here 7 companies gave up after a short time. In 1880 the situation was consolidated and 14 companies extracted 760,000 tons of coal. After further acquisitions and amalgamations of companies, there were only 8 mining operations left in 1908. As a result of the economic recession after the First World War , more pits were merged and 3 large corporations were created. In 1944, the Gersdorf coal-mining association ceased operations due to exhaustion of supplies. The two remaining pits were renamed in 1946. In 1961 the shafts of the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Deutschland were closed and the mine together with the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Karl Liebknecht became the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. consolidated. The last hunt coal was mined here on March 11, 1971.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Mining company Neue Westfalia Steinkohlenbauverein Saxonia	1855 1871	1870 1876	Lugau	from 1876 to the Lugauer Bergbau-Gesellschaft Rhenania
Franz Sewald & Comrades, the Morgensternzeche coal works in Niederwürschnitz	1858 1902	1893 1905	Niederwürschnitz	reduced
Princely-Schönburg hard coal works	1844	1894	Neu-Oelsnitz	from 1895 to the coal mining association God's blessing
Lugau Niederwürschnitzer coal industry union Carlschacht	1845 1896	1895 1902	Niederwürschnitz	from 1903 to the Lugau coal mining association
Lugauer Bergbau-Gesellschaft Rhenania	1856	1901	Lugau	from 1902 to the Lugau coal mining association
Lugau coal mining association	1869	1919	Lugau	from 1920 to the coal mining association God's blessing
Niederwürschnitzer coal mining association	1852	1875	Niederwürschnitz	from 1878 to the Rudolf Facius hard coal works
Niederwürschnitz-Kirchberger Steinkohlen-Aktien-Verein Rudolf Facius Steinkohlenwerk	1844 1878	1878 1879	Niederwürschnitz	from 1894 to the Lugau Niederwürschnitzer coal mining association
Oelsnitz Mining Company	1856	1919	Oelsnitz	from 1920 to the coal industry association Germany
Oelsnitz coal industry association	1844	1852	Niederwürschnitz	from 1852 to the Princely-Schönburg coal mine
Steinkohlen-Aktiengesellschaft Bockwa-Hohndorf Steinkohlen-Aktiengesellschaft United field in Hohndorf	1872 1919	1919 1919	Hohndorf	from 1920 to the coal mining association God's blessing
Concordia Coal Association	1871	1908	Oelsnitz	from 1908 to the hard coal mining association Kaisergrube
Steinkohlenbauverein Deutschland VEB Steinkohlenwerk Deutschland	1871 1946	1945 1966	Oelsnitz	reduced
Steinkohlenbauverein Gottes Segen VEB Steinkohlenwerk Karl Liebknecht	1856 1946	1908 1975	Lugau	reduced
Hohndorf coal mining association	1871	1919	Hohndorf	from 1920 to the coal industry association Germany
Gersdorf coal mining association	1872	1944	Gersdorf	reduced
Steinkohlenbauverein Kaisergrube	1871	1919	Lugau	from 1920 to the coal mining association God's blessing
Coal plant Club luck in Oelsnitz	1871	1907	Oelsnitz	from 1907 to the coal industry association Germany
Zwickau-Lugauer Steinkohlenbauverein Lugauer Steinkohlenbauverein	1855 1869	1867 1919	Lugau	Bankruptcy from 1920 to the coal industry association God's blessing

Companies with shaft depths and drilling tests in the empty space

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Chemnitz hard coal mining company	1858	1864	Reichenbrand Leukersdorf	empty unworthy of construction
Chemnitz Hard Coal Association	1849	1860	Oberlungwitz	empty
Grünaer Steinkohlenbauverein	1854	1859	Grüna	empty
Hohndorf-Bernsdorfer coal mining association	1871	1876	Bernsdorf	empty
Leipzig-Erlbach coal mining association	1855	1863	Kirchberg	unworthy of construction
Lichtenstein Mining Company	1857	1860	Lichtenstein	Operation not started
Lugau Erlbacher Hard Coal Association	1855	1861	Erlbach	empty
Mittelbacher Steinkohlenbauverein	1859	1863	Mittelbach	empty
Niedererzgebirgischer Bergbauverein Teutonia	1871	1878	Gersdorf Oberhermsdorf	empty
Rödlitz hard coal mining association	1858	1862	Rödlitz	after 740 m depth carbon not reached
Saxon coal company	1857	1864	Oberlungwitz	empty
Königsgrube coal mining association	1871	1876	Bernsdorf	empty
Montania Coal Association	1859	1866	Pfaffenhain Seifersdorf	unworthy of construction
Oelsnitzer Fresh Luck Coal Association	1871	1876	Oelsnitz	unworthy of construction
Reichszeche coal mining association	1871	1872	Oelsnitz	Depth set
Hard coal mining association Vaterlandsgrube	1872	1875	Oelsnitz	Depth set
Coal mining association for Steegenschacht	1860	1872	Niederdorf	empty
Coal company of the large Erzgebirge basin	1845	1849	Oberlungwitz Rödlitz	Carbon not reached

Döhlen basin

Geological map of the coal basin in Plauenschen Grund

Seam designation	Thickness in m
1. Seam	1.50-12.00
2. Seam	0.40-1.40
3rd seam	0.90-1.10
4. Seam	0.20-1.50
5. Seam	1.00-6.00
6. Seam	1.10-2.50
7. Seam	1.50

The deposition of the coal-bearing layers of the Döhlen basin dates back to the Lower Red lying at an age of 293–295 million years. Seven seams are formed. The 6th and 7th seams are only formed at the deepest points of the basin. Only the 1st seam is worth building. The other seams consisted of fire slate and ash-rich coals. The beginning of mining is proven to be in 1542. There were five large mining companies in the area . To the left of the Weißeritz , the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works was built from 1806 onwards .

To the right of the Weißeritz, the largest mining company was the Freiherrlich von Burgker Steinkohlenwerke from 1767 to 1930, followed by the Hänichener Steinkohlenbauverein (1846–1906), the Potschappler Steinkohlenbauverein (1839–1881) and the Gitterseer Steinkohlenbauverein (1836-1860). In addition, a constantly changing number of small businesses were active. In 1872, in addition to the works listed, 10 other coal works were in operation. The operating periods, however, often only extended to a few years. In 1945 the VEB Steinkohlenwerk Freital took over the mine field on the left of the Weißeritz. As a result, in the search for residual coal piers, the operation of the mine field on the right of the Weißeritz, which was closed in 1930, was resumed. In December 1967 coal mining was stopped after supplies were exhausted. It is estimated that between 1861 and 1967, about 40.2 million tons of coal were mined.

Between 1946 and 1955, mining on coal containing uranium ore in the Heidenschanze district was carried out by Wismut AG. From 1968 to 1989 the mining of uranium ore-containing coal in the Gittersee and Bannewitz districts was continued by the SDAG Wismut . The 1st, 3rd and 5th seams were mined. During these two periods around 4.7 million tons of ore coal were mined for uranium extraction.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Dresden-Possendorfer Aktienverein	1858	1869	Possendorf	set
Baron von Burgker Steinkohlenwerke	1767	1930	Deuben Burgk Niederhäslich Kleinnaundorf Boderitz Bannewitz	set
Gitterseer Steinkohlenbauverein	1836	1860	Gittersee Birkigt	reduced
Golberoder-Dippoldiswalder Aktienverein	1857	1862	Golberode	set
Hänichen coal mining association	1846	1906	Hänichen Rippien Welschhufe Wilmsdorf	reduced
Kleinopitzer Steinkohlenbau Aktiengesellschaft	1872	1879	Kleinopitz	set
Zauckerode Royal Coal Factory Zauckerode State Coal Factory	1806 1918	1918 1945	Döhlen Niederhermsdorf Oberweißig Zauckerode	from 1945 VEB hard coal works Freital
Electoral coal works Leopold Erbstolln	1789	1805	Niederhermsdorf	1805 to the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works
Schoenberg coal works	1769	1805	Zauckerode Döhlen	1805 to the Zauckerode Royal Coal Works
Potschappler Aktienverein	1836	1878	Burgk Birkigt Potschappel	reduced
Brendel coal plant	1574	1882	Wurgwitz	reduced
Claus coal works	1726	1844	Kohlsdorf	1844 to Baron von Burgker Steinkohlenwerke
Coschütz coal plant	1828	1850	Coschütz	1850 to the Gitterseer Steinkohlenbauverein
Moritz Ferdinand Schönberg coal works	1866	1900	Zauckerode	set
Thümen coal works	1820	1847	Pesterwitz	1847 to Baron von Burgker Steinkohlenwerke
VEB hard coal works Freital	1945	1967	Döhlen Niederhermsdorf Zauckerode Coschütz Burgk Birkigt Gittersee Bannewitz	reduced
Wismut AG	1947	1955	Coschütz Burgk Birkigt Gittersee	set
Mining company Willi Agatz of SDAG Wismut	1968	1989	Bannewitz Burgk Birkigt Gittersee	set

The localities with coal production extend to the area of today's cities and communities Dresden , Freital and Bannewitz .

Hainichen-Berthelsdorf

New-luck seams	hanging seam	0.40–1.20 m thick
New-luck seams	lying seam	0.10–0.20 m thick
Court seams	hanging seam	0.40–0.60 m thick
	Main seam	0.40–0.80 m thick
	lower seam	0.50–0.80 m thick
New seams	uppermost seam	0.40–1.10 m thick
	middle seam	0.40–0.50 m thick
	lower seam	0.40–1.10 m thick

The basin is the north-eastern extension of the Borna-Ebersdorfer basin. The coals of the basin were created in Viséum III of the Lower Carboniferous with an age of 328–332 million years. Eight seams are formed. The seams have the greatest thickness in the southwest part of the hollow and are increasingly wedge towards the northeast. Their incidence is between 50 and 70 °. The first mining attempts in Hainichen are documented from 1705 . Several attempts to mine coal were made by 1855. Only one seam with a thickness of 20–30 cm was formed. Between 1838 and 1840, 95.8 tons of coal were mined. No further figures are known.

From 1767 to 1844 there was sporadic search for hard coal in Cunnersdorf . In 1790 a seam with a thickness of 20 to 40 cm was approached.

In the years 1872/73, a shaft was sunk in Ottendorf . But only a 15 cm thick seam was found.

Mining was first mentioned in Berthelsdorf in 1705. Mining was carried out continuously between 1789 and 1861. The most successful was Adolf Gottlieb Fiedler, whose company mined around 100,000 tons of coal between 1803 and 1852. The last attempt was made to resume hard coal mining between 1897 and 1905.

From 1946 the basin was examined by the Sächsische Steinkohlenwerk GmbH Oelsnitz with several boreholes for possible coal reserves. The work was discontinued in 1948 without result.

Between 1972 and 1976 the area was investigated by the SDAG Wismut and the uranium deposit in Berthelsdorf was discovered.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Friedrich Alexander von Schoenberg	1789	1790	Hainichen	set
Friedrich August Bernhard	1820	1829	Hainichen	set
Coal mining association in Haynichen	1838	1844	Hainichen	set
Actien-Steinkohlenbau- Verein	1845	1849	Hainichen	set
Haynichen coal industry association	1849	1855	Hainichen	set
August Carl Friedrich Baron von Schirnding	1789	1795	Bertelsdorf	set
Detlev Carl von Einsiedel	1795	1804	Bertelsdorf	set
Adolph Gottlob Fiedler	1804	1853	Bertelsdorf	set
Johann Friedrich Kuntze	1853	1857	Bertelsdorf	set
Berthelsdorfer Coal Mining Association	1858	1861	Bertelsdorf	set
Coal Industry Union, God's Blessing	1897	1905	Bertelsdorf	set
Meding and comrades	1839	1844	Cunnersdorf	set

Borna-Ebersdorf

Seam designation	Thickness in m
1. Seam	0.60-0.85
2. Seam	0.85-2.00
3rd seam	0.40-0.75
4. Seam	0.60-0.85
5. Seam	0.15-0.20

The coals of the basin were created in Viséum III of the Lower Carboniferous with an age of 328–332 million years. Five seams are formed. Only in the area of Ebersdorf have the seams reached thicknesses worth building. Their incidence is between 40 and 70 °. The first evidence of coal comes from 1511. The first proven mining attempts are made in 1701 and 1710 to 1713. It was not until 1816 that coal mining began. Initially the 2nd, 3rd and 4th seams were mined. Later mining was limited to the 2nd and 3rd seam. The production is said to have reached an average of 4.5 tons of coal per day. As a result, around 68,000 tons of coal were mined.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Count of Vitzthum's coal works, Friedrich's hope	1816	1865	Ebersdorf	set
Chemnitz coal industry association	1838	1843	Glösa	unworthy of construction

There were further construction attempts in the villages of Borna , Frankenberg and Ortelsdorf .

Flea

lower carbon level	1. Seam	0.40–0.85 m thick
upper carbon level	1. Seam	0.15-0.45 m thick
	2. Seam	0.15-0.30 m thick
	3rd seam	0.38–0.42 m thick
	4. Seam	0.22–0.24 m thick

The coals of the basin originated in the Westphalian B / C of the Upper Carboniferous with an age of 309-312 million years. Two layers of carbon are deposited in the basin. The lower tier is spread throughout the basin and leads to a seam. The upper level is divided into a northern and a southern part by the Zschopau and the Flöha . Two to four seams are formed. The seams are not very durable. Often there are only two seams. Some seams carried anthracite coal with carbon contents of up to 87 percent. The other types of coal represented often had very high ash contents of 43 to 66 percent. The first mining attempt is documented in 1700. There were further attempts in 1713, 1741, 1761 and 1770. It was not until 1802 that mining began. Up to the end of mining in 1881, around 110,000 tons of coal had been mined.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Carl Friedrich Schaal Johann Georg Eichler	1834 1848	1848 1860	Altenhain	set
Fischer & Co. Altenhainer Steinkohlenbau Gesellschaft	1858 1859	1859 1863	Altenhain	set
Johann Georg Schippan Christian Friedrich Zießler Carl Gottlob Morgenstern Christian Friedrich Zießler	1802 1850 1862 1869	1850 1862 1867 1872	Gückelsberg	set
Johann Gottfried Pötzsch Carl Adolph Kögel	1812 1818	1815 1830	Flea	set
Johann Gottfried Pötzsch Carl Gottlieb Kieber Schumann	1815 1819 1853	1819 1853 1863	Flea	set
Moritz Schippan Carl Gottlob Fink Schumann	1837 1845 1861	1845 1857 1865	Flea	set
Johann Gottfried Pötzsch Carl David Anke	1818 1836	1835 1853	Flea	set
Adolph Gottlob Fiedler Christian Friedrich Hesse	1838 1853	1852 1881	Parish forest (Flöha)	set
Johann Gottfried Pötzsch Heinrich Christian Thümer	1835 1849	1849 1850	Struthwald (Flöha)	set
Glück auf Flöha	1908	1910	Flea	no operation started

Chemnitz Basin

Leukersdorf formation	Rottluff horizon	Seams up to 0.70 m thick
Planitz formation	Niederplanitz horizon	small seams
Härtensdorf formation	wild coal mountains	small seams

The origin of the coals falls in the lower and middle Rotliegend with an age of 290-295 million years. Three layers of layers are deposited in the basin. The Härtensdorf Formation is the largest. Small coal seams with a narrowly limited area occur in it, the "Wild Coal Mountains". The Niederplanitz horizon of the Niederplanitz Formation is limited to the Zwickau / Werdau area. In contrast, the Rottluff horizon of the Leukersdorf Formation can only be found in the Chemnitz / Hohenstein-Ernstthal area. Especially the thin seams that appear in the Rottluff horizon are more durable. They were discovered in Hohenstein-Ernstthal in 1720. In misjudgment of the stratigraphy , one saw the outflow of the Zwickau Carboniferous in these seams. Thus, these seams were at times the target of mining. Construction tests, some of which were several hundred meters deep, took place between 1850 and 1870. There was no dismantling. Only in the persistence shaft of the Grünaer Steinkohlenbauverein was the seam consisting of six coal layers with a total thickness of 71 centimeters built on on a trial basis.

Locations with pit attempts and coal discoveries

Olbernhau-Brandau (Brandov)

Seam designation	Thickness in m
1. Seam
2. Seam	1.75-2.00
3rd seam
4. Seam	0.05-0.50

The origin of the coals falls in the Westfal B / C of the Upper Carboniferous with an age of 309-312 million years. Up to four seams are formed. Mining took place between 1853 and 1924. Only two shafts were mined in Brandau. The coal was processed in Olbernhau .

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Gabriela Zeche Olbernhauer Anthracite Works Johannes Schlutius	1854 1893	1893 1924	Brandau	reduced

Rehefeld fence house

Seam designation	Thickness in m
1. Seam	0.40
2. Seam	0.70-1.00
3rd seam	0.60-0.80

In the Rehefeld-Zaunhaus area there are two small deposits of anthracite coal that belong to the Schönfeld Carboniferous Region. In 1836 a carbon basin only 2500 m ^{2 in} size with five 11 to 23 cm thick seams was found on the Brandberg . In an experimental dismantling in 1846, 65.5 tons of coal were mined here. The second deposit below was mined from 1848. Up to 1877, 1,672 tons of coal were mined here.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Royal Saxon State Fiscus	1846	1877	Rehefeld fence house	set

Schönfeld

Seam designation	Thickness in m
Roman seam	0.50-1.00
Walterflöz	0.10-0.25
Main seam	0.40-2.00
Jacobflöz	0.50-3.00

The origin of the coals falls in the Westfal B / C of the Upper Carboniferous with an age of 309-312 million years. Four seams are formed. Only the main and Jacob seams were worth building. Due to its high carbon content (86 percent), the coal was called anthracite . The year 1761 is mentioned as the beginning of mining. The mining was operated as Communbergbau with several years of downtime. In 1799 the union of the Zwitterstocks zu Altenberg bought the mine. From 1870 it belonged to the state. From 1868 to the end of mining in 1937, 10,387 tons of coal were mined.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Union of the Zwitterstocks zu Altenberg Royal Saxon State Fiscus	1799 1870	1870 1897	Schönfeld	set
Anthracite work Glück auf	1921	1937	Schönfeld	set

Oschatz

Seam designation	Thickness in m
1. Seam	1.40
2. Seam	0.40
3rd seam	1.20
4. Seam	0.60
5. Seam	0.40
6. Seam	5.20
7. Seam	2.80
8. Seam	0.40

The time of origin of the coals falls in the lower Rotliegend with an age of 288-292 million years. Eight seams are formed. The coal was not worth building. Due to the very high ash content of 65.70 percent, it was referred to as fire slate. In 1789 attempts were made in vain to open up the coal-bearing layers with two shafts. In 1791, good coal is said to have been reached with a 15 meter deep shaft. Boreholes and shaft depths carried out between 1805 and 1846 did not encounter any coal. It was not until 1847 that the 8 seams with a total thickness of 12.50 meters were found with a crosscut of a 23-deep shaft in a 30-meter- thick interval. 53.4 tons of coal were mined in a test transport. The diluvial sands lying above the Rot was responsible for a high groundwater level, which could not be controlled in the shaft. Two other shafts sunk in 1849 and 1851 had to be abandoned as a result. Between 1938 and 1944, the State Deposit Research Center of the Freiberg Mining Authority re-examined the occurrence .

The construction tests extended to the area of the villages of Saalhausen , Limbach , Thalheim and Kreischa to the southwest of Oschatz .

Brown coal

The beginning of the lignite mining is proven for the year 1382. It was not until the 19th century that it became an important factor in supplying industry and the population with fuel and in generating electricity. After mining in civil engineering, mining began in ever larger opencast mines at the end of the 19th century. Lignite was the backbone of energy generation in the GDR. In 1986, 312 million tons of lignite were mined in the two large mining areas, Lausitz and Central Germany. In 2016 the production was still 76 million tons, 40 million tons of which in Saxony.

Zittau - Turów Basin

3 seams with up to 43 seam banks and a maximum coal thickness of 140 meters. While the deepest seam belongs to the Lower Oligocene ( Rupelium ) with an age of 30 million years, the two main seams were formed in the period Under Miocene ( Aquitanium ) with an age of 22 million years to the Middle Miocene ( Langhium ) with an age of 15 million Years.

The first mention comes from 1642/43. Mining began in 1734. The original coal reserves of the basin were 2.5 billion tons of coal. Around 50 percent of this is on Polish territory. Around 905 million tons of coal have been mined here in the Turów opencast mine since 1947. Separated by the Neisse , two mining areas developed. In what is now the Polish part, which belonged to Saxony until 1945, around 56.3 million tons of coal were mined between 1868 and 1941. In the Saxon part of the area, approx. 9.7 million tons of coal were mined from 1868 to 1938.

Olbersdorf opencast mine

The open pit is located south of the urban area of Zittau. Operation took place between 1910 and 1991. After the forced cessation of production in 1938, the opencast mine went back into operation in 1947. Until 1938 2.4 million tons of coal had been mined. In the second operating phase until 1991, 18.9 million tons of coal were mined.

Zittau Süd opencast mine

The open pit adjoins the Olbersdorf open pit to the southeast . The operation should take place from 1992 to 2017. The reserves are 396 million tons of coal. The planning was discontinued in 1990/91.

Zittau Nord opencast mine

The opencast mine is located north of the urban area of Zittau. The operation should take place from 2013 to 2036. The reserves are 480 million tons of coal. The planning was discontinued in 1990/91.

Zittau Stadt opencast mine

The opencast mine covered the urban area of Zittau. The reserves are 335 million tons of coal. The plans were discarded in the initial phase.

Remains of the Zittau seams can be found 10 kilometers west of Zittau in the Großschönau area .

The Oderwitz sub-basin is located 10 kilometers northwest of Zittau . Two weak seams of the Zittau Formation are formed here. The upper three-meter-thick seam was examined with a shaft in 1853. Due to the poor quality of coal, mining was not started.

11 kilometers west of Zittau between Seifhennersdorf and Varnsdorf , mining attempts were made between 1837 and 1856 on the deepest seam horizon of the Zittau Basin that is locally available. There are three seams with a thickness of four meters.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Brown coal works E. Bartel Brown coal union-Saxonia-Alt-Hartau	1868 1891	1891 1901	Old Hartau	set
Brown coal works KA Gerlach brown coal works Schlösschen	1868 1874	1873 1877	Eckartsberg	set
Lignite works KA Gerlach	1879	1903	Olbersdorf	set
Germania lignite works	1891	1918	Olbersdorf Zittau	from 1918 to the Hirschfelde State Lignite Works
Lignite works God's blessing	1879	1918	Olbersdorf	from 1918 to the Hirschfelde State Lignite Works
Brown coal works Radisch and Wagner brown coal works Glück auf Brown coal works United Glückauf	1868 1871 1886	1871 1885 1894	Eckartsberg Hasenberg	set
Lignite plant Glück auf Olbersdorf opencast mine	1908 1947	1938 1991	Olbersdorf	from 1938 to the Aktiengesellschaft Sächsische Werke and closed in 1938
Concordia lignite plant	1887	1893	Zittau	set
Kaltenstein lignite works	1896	1912	Olbersdorf	set
E. Neumann Zittauer Gruben lignite works	1872 1882	1881 1885	Hasenberg	from 1885 to the lignite plant Glück Auf
Reichenberger coal mining association	1868	1917	Hartau Eckartsberg	from 1918 to the Hirschfelde State Lignite Works
GA Schubert lignite works	1868	1894	Olbersdorf	set
Brown coal mine solidarity	1947	1953	Hartau	set

Companies in today's Polish territory

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
G. Bischoff lignite works	1868	1893	Türchau (Turoszów)	set
Brown coal works RE Bührdel	1892	1910	Reichenau (Bogatynia)	set
ER Burgkhardt lignite works	1868	1893	Gießmannsdorf (Gościszów)	set
Brown coal works CH.G. Burgkhardt	1871	1878	Türchau (Turoszów)	set
Brown coal works ER Burgkhardt Brown coal union Gießmannsdorf	1890 1905	1903 1909	Seitendorf (zatonia)	set
A. Ebermann lignite works	1869	1895	Seitendorf (zatonia)	set
J. Ebermann lignite works	1868	1917	Seitendorf (zatonia)	set
ER Fiedrich lignite works	1908	1925	Reichenau (Bogatynia)	set
Glückauf lignite works	1900	1912	Reichenau (Bogatynia)	set
Brown Coal Works Good Hope	1868 1908	1890 1915	Zittel (Pasterni)	set
EG Heidrich lignite works	1868	1917	Türchau (Turoszów)	set
Brown coal works EL Heidrich Brown coal joint-stock company Herkules Staatliches Braunkohlenwerk Hirschfelde joint-stock company Sächsische Werke Tagebau Turów	1904 1906 1916 1923 1947	1906 1916 1923 1946 in operation	Türchau (Turoszów)	in operation
Brown coal works OJ Hennig	1872	1895	Türchau (Turoszów)	set
Brown coal works help of God	1876	1897	Gießmannsdorf (Gościszów)	set
Johannes lignite works	1876	1895	Bad Oppelsdorf (Opolno Zdrój)	set
Brown coal works FW Kober Hirschfelder brown coal and briquette works	1895 1905	1904 1910	Seitendorf (zatonia)	from 1910 to the lignite corporation Herkules
OR Krusche lignite works	1896	1911	Reichenau (Bogatynia)	set
CA Posselt lignite plant	1868	1907	Türchau (Turoszów)	from 1907 to the lignite corporation Herkules
CG Posselt lignite works	1868	1906	Türchau (Turoszów)	from 1906 to the lignite corporation Herkules
J. Posselt lignite works	1882	1916	Türchau (Turoszów)	set
CF Posselt lignite plant	1886	1912	Türchau (Turoszów)	set
JA Scholz lignite works	1872	1882	Seitendorf (zatonia)	set
Th. Scholz lignite works	1879	1895	Türchau (Turoszów)	set
WR Scholz lignite works	1883	1925	Reichenau (Bogatynia)	set
EE Scholz lignite works	1887	1914	Reichenau (Bogatynia)	set
JG Schröter lignite works	1868	1885	Bad Oppelsdorf (Opolno Zdrój)	set
Seifert and Rolle lignite works	1895	1926	Reichenau (Bogatynia)	set
J. Weichenhain lignite works	1877	1924	Seitendorf (zatonia)	from 1924 to the joint stock company Sächsische Werke

Berzdorf Basin

13 seams, with the first seam consisting of five seam banks. The maximum thickness of the coal is 110 meters. The seams formed in the period under Miocene (Aquitanium) with an age of 22 million years to the Middle Miocene (Langhium) with an age of 15 million years.

The first mention comes from 1730 in Tauchritz . Underground mining began in 1835. The original coal reserves of the basin were 880 million tons of coal. The coal reserves of the part of the basin on what is now Polish territory amount to 503 million tons. Mining took place here to a small extent near Wanscha (Spytków) and Reutnitz (Ręczyn). Between 1868 and 1905, around 35,000 tons of coal were mined here. Between 1868 and 1927, around 1.15 million tons of coal were mined in Saxony.

Berzdorf opencast mine

The open pit is located south of the urban area of Görlitz. The operation took place between 1919 and 1997. After the forced cessation of production in 1927, the opencast mine went back into operation in 1946. Around 550,000 tons of coal had been mined until 1927. In the second operating phase until 1997, 318 million tons of coal were mined. The remaining stocks are 60 million tons of coal.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
JT Roitzsch lignite works	1868	1886	Reutnitz (Ręczyn)	set
Brown coal works E. Geissler Hope of God Brown coal works of the city of Dresden Deutsche Bergbau-Aktiengesellschaft / Berzdorf Brown coal works Berzdorf GmbH Berzdorf open-cast mine	1868 1870 1916 1922 1922 1946	1869 1915 1922 1922 1925 1997	Berzdorf on the property	from 1925 to the Aktiengesellschaft Sächsische Werke and closed in 1927
Brown coal works J. Nöh Reutnitzer coal works Grube Kurfürst von Sachsen	1897 1902 1904	1902 1904 1905	Reutnitz (Ręczyn)	set

Lower Lusatia area

Seven seam horizons are maintained in the area. The origin of the coals begins in the Middle Eocene ( Bartonian ) 38 million years ago with the Nichtewitz strata and ends in the Middle Miocene ( Serravallian ) 12 million years ago with the Ober Brieske Formation. While the lower three seam horizons are only regionally represented as small islands, the upper four seam horizons are distributed throughout the area. The uppermost seam formation, the 1st Lusatian seam, was interesting for mining in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Since then, mining has concentrated on the second seam horizon with the 2nd Lusatian seam. Except for the smallest areas, the lignite mining area belonged to the state of Prussia from 1815 to 1945 . Only after the new border was drawn in 1945 did the southern parts of the deposit return to the state of Saxony. Much of the deposit is located in a glacial glacial valley. Because of the very high groundwater levels here, which were not manageable with the technical means at the time, mining only began here at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. The total reserves of the Niederlausitzer Revier are given as 12.1 billion tons of geological reserves and 3.6 billion tons of technically recoverable reserves today.

Skado opencast mine

The opencast mine is partly in Brandenburg . The operation took place between 1939 and 1977. 239 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 10–13 meters was mined.

Koschen opencast mine

The opencast mine borders the Skado opencast mine in the south and is partly in Brandenburg. The operation took place between 1953 and 1972. It acted as a buffer opencast mine to compensate for production bottlenecks in other opencast mines. 83 million tons of coal were mined. The second Lusatian seam with a thickness of 8-11 meters was mined.

Laubusch opencast mine (Erika)

The opencast mine is located south of the Koschen and Bluno opencast mines. It was operated between 1916 and 1962. The coal was mined in 12 construction fields, some of which were operated simultaneously. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 10 meters was mined.

Opencast mine Heide (Heye III pit)

The opencast mine is located south of the Laubusch opencast mine. The greater part of the opencast mine is in Brandenburg. Mining began here in 1866. The Hedwig Stolln (1875–1880) and the Diogenes Schacht (1883–1893) are known. The open-cast mine was operated between 1909 and 1968. It was the first large-scale mine in what is now the Saxon part of the district. 38.8 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 12 meters was mined. In 1968 the company was stopped due to the changed energy policy of the GDR. The remaining stocks are 3.4 million tons of coal.

Clara III opencast mine ( Zeißholz )

The opencast mine is located southeast of the Heide opencast mine. The greater part of the opencast mine is in Prussia. Mining in the area began in 1858. Well-known are the pits Friedrichsglück (1858–1871), Constantia (1868–1873), Schacht Bruno (1869–1871), Amalia (1871–1904), Saxonia (1873–1911) and Elisabeth II ( 1910-1934). The open pit was in operation between 1909 and 1934. 12.4 million tons of lignite were mined, of which 2.8 million tons were in Saxony. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 9–12 meters was mined.

Brigitta opencast mine

In 1906, in the later mine field with the Hope III mine, civil engineering began, but this was discontinued a short time later due to difficult geological conditions. In 1915 the excavation of the Brigitta opencast mine began. By 1952, 55 million tons of coal had been mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 11 meters was mined.

Spreetal opencast mine

The opencast mine is the continuation of the Brigitta opencast mine. The operation took place between 1952 and 1983. From 1972 the remaining field of the 1968 closed opencast mine Bluno was included in the production. 348.2 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 9 meters was mined.

Spreetal northeast opencast mine

The opencast mine continued the mining of the field of the Brigitta opencast mine parallel to the Spreetal opencast mine. The operation took place between 1981 and 1991. 34.2 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 11 meters, which was severely disturbed by the ice age glacier, was mined. The remaining stocks are around 95 million tons of coal.

Bluno opencast mine

The opencast mine was driven parallel to the Spreetal opencast mine on its south side. The operation took place between 1955 and 1968. 42.7 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 9 meters was mined. In 1968 the opencast mine was shut down due to the changed energy policy of the GDR (withdrawal from lignite).

Burghammer opencast mine

The opencast mine is located between the Brigitta and Werminghoff III opencast mines. The operation took place between 1959 and 1973. 71 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 9 meters was mined.

Open pit disk

The open-cast mine is located south of the Burghammer open-cast mine. The operation took place between 1984 and 1996. 53 million tons of coal were mined. The second Lusatian seam with a thickness of 8-16 meters was mined.

Werminghoff I opencast mine (Knappenrode)

The opencast mine is located south of the Scheibe opencast mine. The operation took place between 1913 and 1945. 57.4 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 10 meters was mined.

Werminghoff II opencast mine (Glückauf)

The opencast mine is located east of the Werminghoff I opencast mine. The operation took place between 1935 and 1960. After the forced cessation of production at the end of 1946, the opencast mine went back into operation in 1948. 53 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 10 meters was mined.

Opencast mine Werminghoff III (Lohsa)

The opencast mine is the north-eastern continuation of the Werminghoff II opencast mine. The operation took place between 1950 and 1984. 299 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 8 meters was mined.

Opencast mine Dreiweibern

The opencast mine borders the Werminghoff III (Lohsa) opencast mine in the east. The operation took place between 1981 and 1989. 14 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 7 meters was mined.

Bärwalde opencast mine

The opencast mine is the south-eastern continuation of the Werminghoff III (Lohsa) opencast mine. The operation took place between 1973 and 1992. 181 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 12 meters was mined. The remaining stocks are around 195 million tons of coal

Nochten opencast mine

The opencast mine is located in the northeast of the Werminghoff III opencast mine (Lohsa). It has been in operation since 1968. Up to 2015, 918 million tons of coal were mined. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 12 meters is being mined. The first seam with a thickness of 2-3 meters has also been mined since 2006. The remaining stocks in 2015 amount to 460 million tons of coal according to the 1992 plan. After the planning change in 2017, the remaining stocks in 2015 amounted to 290 million tons of coal.

Reichwalde opencast mine

The opencast mine is located southeast of the Nochten opencast mine. It has been in operation since 1985. In 1999, the open-cast mine was suspended. In 2010 production operations were resumed. 144 million tons of coal had been mined by 2015. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 9–12 meters is being mined. According to the 1993 plan, the remaining stocks in 2015 still amounted to 319 million tons of coal. In 1993 the Hammerstadt field with a content of 35 million tons of coal was spun off.

Liebel opencast mine

The opencast mine is connected to the Reichwalde opencast mine in the south. The reserves are 166 million tons of coal. The planning was discontinued in 1990/91.

Pechern opencast mine

The opencast mine extends south of the village of Pechern . In the field, the 1st Lusatian seam is 1.5 meters and the 2nd Lusatian seam 7–8 meters. The content of the deposit is 309 million tons of coal.

Weißwasser opencast mine

The open- cast mine extends southeast of Weißwasser , parallel to the Nochten open-cast mine. The deposit is 246 million tons of coal.

Bärwalde-Ost and Hoyerswerda- Süd deposits

Due to the renovation measures in the Bärwalde and Zeißholz mining areas, these two deposits are no longer included in the planning.

Brothers Weist lignite works in Dörgenhausen 1947–1952

Small and micro storage facilities in the Niederlausitz area

Bautzen area

There was mining here in several localities. The 2nd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 1–2 meters and the 3rd Lusatian seam with a thickness of 3–6 meters were mined. 826,109 tons of coal were extracted between 1868 and 1920.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Brown coal works AA Bräuer brown coal works Bräuer and Frenzel brown coal works Andreashütte	1871 1887 1898	1884 1897 1899	Quatitz	set
Einsiedel lignite works Gräflich Einsiedliches Braunkohlenwerk Aktiengesellschaft Adolfshütte	1868 1889 1892	1880 1892 1917	Crosta	set
Adolphshütte Crosta lignite works	1947	1951	Crosta	set
J. Frenzel lignite works	1868	1876	Grand Dubrau	set
A. Kneschke lignite works	1868	1878	Quatitz	set
Brown coal works of the Margarethenhütte	1868	1905	Quatitz	set
Margarethenhütte Großdubrau lignite works	1947	1951	Quatitz	set
GE Müller lignite works	1868	1908	Merka	set
New Hope lignite plant	1872	1890	Quatitz	set
A. Noack brown coal works	1868	1885	Quatitz	set
Brown coal works Noack and comrades	1878	1880	Klix	set
Brown coal works Freiherrlich von Uckermann Brown coal works from Watzdorf	1869 1910	1910 1920	Luttowitz	set
A. Ulbrich lignite works	1869	1884	Quatitz	set

Koenigswartha area

The 3rd Lusatian seam with thicknesses of 4–7 meters was mined. Between 1868 and 1923, 73,840 tons of coal were extracted.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
EM Fiedler lignite works	1868	1880	Saritsch	set
Brown coal works A. Jermiss Brown coal works J.Tr. Schulze	1870 1889	1889 1899	Wetro	set
J. Lindner lignite works	1868	1893	Guhra	set
G. Schmaler lignite works	1870	1911	Pushwitz	set
Preßkohlenwerk O. Simmank	1909	1923	Guhra	set
A. Voigt lignite works	1868	1898	Pushwitz	set
VEB lignite plant Puschwitz	1946	1965	Pushwitz	set

Kamenz area

The 3rd Lusatian seam with thicknesses of up to 10 meters was mined in Schmeckwitz and up to 26 meters in Skaska. 4 million tons of coal were extracted between 1868 and 1929. The Skaska deposit continues in Liebegast in Prussia.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Anna lignite mine	1868	1903	Skaska	set
Barth and Teichert lignite works	1900	1929	Rhinestone	set
Lignite mine Bergmanns Hope	1869	1927	Schmeckwitz	set
Clara III lignite mine	1910	1920	Oßling	Saxon mining field of the Eintracht corporation
Lignite mine God's blessing	1869	1898	Schmeckwitz	set
Johannes Glück lignite mine	1869	1898	Schmeckwitz	set
Brown coal mine popular solidarity	1947	1952	Piskowitz	set

Weißenberg area

Seam banks of the 4th Lusatian seam with thicknesses of 2–12 meters were mined. From 1868 to 1927, 5.85 million tons of coal were extracted.

Open pit mine Olba

From 1868 to 1904, approx. 380,100 t of coal were extracted from underground mining in the area of the open pit. The open pit was in operation from 1905 to 1927. The production was stopped due to difficult geological conditions. 5.4 million tons of coal were mined. Three seam banks with thicknesses of 2.5 meters, 5 meters and 10 meters were extracted. The deposit was mined on the Prussian side near Weigersdorf from the Lusatia pits, one seam bank 7 meters, and Heinrich Neumeister two seam banks each 3 meters.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
G. Groß lignite works	1868	1882	Kleinsaubernitz	set
Lignite mine Graf zur Lippe Oberlausitzer Braunkohlen Aktiengesellschaft Oberlausitzer Braunkohlenwerk Olba ( opencast mine Olba )	1868 1904 1907	1904 1907 1927	Kleinsaubernitz Wartha	set
J. Pötzschke lignite works	1868	1879	Kleinsaubernitz	set
Gebelzig lignite works	1947	1953	Frosty	set

Koenigsbrück area

A seam with a thickness of 1.7 meters was mined. Between 1901 and 1905, 723 tons of coal were extracted.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Elisengrube lignite plant	1901	1905	Sella	set

Muskauer fold arch

In this area, the 2nd and 4th Lusatian seams were compressed and pushed together by a glacier during the Elster Ice Age. The resulting steep seams eroded the surface of the earth and formed today's channel structures, a few decimeters wide and often several hundred meters long. The two seams with thicknesses of 1–3 meters and 8–12 meters were mined underground and in small-scale opencast mines.

society	Year of establishment	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Adolf lignite works	1921	1956	Kromlau	set
Opencast mine Anna II	1897	1899	Krauschwitz	set
Open pit mine Anna III	1902	1909	Gablenz	set
Caroline I lignite works	1890	1911	White water	set
Caroline II lignite works	1913	1959	Krauschwitz	set
Eduard I / II lignite works	1876	1888	Lugknitz (Łęknica) to the left of the Neisse	set
Flora-Charlotte lignite works	1924	1945	Lugknitz (Łęknica) to the left of the Neisse	set
Friedrich brown coal works	1853	1895	Krauschwitz	set
Gotthelf lignite works	1907	1913	Bad Muskau	set
Gustav Adolph lignite works	1867	1868	Trebendorf	set
Hartmann lignite works	1909	1943	Keula	set
Hedwig lignite works	1902	1909	Gablenz	set
Hermann lignite works	1910	1959	White water	set
Lignite Hope	1896	1912	White water	set
Kurt open pit	1948	1958	Kromlau	set
Louise lignite works	1856	1864	Bad Muskau	set
Marie lignite works	1873	1923	Keula	set
Matthäus lignite works	1889	1895	Krauschwitz	set
Philippine Lignite Plant	1900	1910	Kromlau	set
Sophie lignite works	1928	1956	Big Düben	set
Theodor lignite works in Freia	1889 1919	1919 1925	Kromlau	set
Theresia lignite plant	1890	1924	Bukonitza	set
Trebendorfer fields opencast mine	1950	1969	Halbendorf	set
Weißwasser lignite works	1860	1925	White water	set
Brown Coal Works Good Hope	1947	1952	Kollm	set

Central Germany area

Six seam horizons are maintained in the area. The origin of the coals begins in the Middle Eocene (Bartonian) 40.5 million years ago with the Merseburg seam and ends in the Lower Miocene ( Burdigalium ) 18 million years ago with the Düben Oberbank seam, identical to the 3rd Lusatian seam formation. North of Leipzig the sequence begins with the Borna main seam, formed in the Upper Eocene ( Priabonian ) 35–37 million years ago and ends with the Düben seam. South of Leipzig, the sequence begins 40 million years ago with the Saxon-Thuringian lower seam, identical to the Lausitz Nichtewitz layers, and ends with the upper seam complex, formed in the Lower Oligocene (Rupelian) 31–33 million years ago. The reserves of the district are given with approx. 10-12 billion tons of geological reserves and 2.5 billion tons of technical recoverable reserves today.

Holzweißig West open pit mine

The opencast mine is located south of Bitterfeld , partly in Saxony-Anhalt . The operation took place between 1958 and 1980. 86.7 million tons of coal were mined. The Bitterfeld upper seam with a thickness of 15-18 meters was mined.

Goitzsche opencast mine

The open-cast mine extends northeast of the Holzweißig open-cast mine . Of the seven opencast mining fields, only field IIa is on Saxon territory. The open pit was in operation between 1949 and 1987. Construction field IIa was in operation from 1959 to 1974. 303 million tons of coal were mined. The Bitterfeld upper seam with a thickness of 9–12 meters was mined.

Rösa opencast mine

The Rösa opencast mine originally belonged to the Goitzsche opencast mine as the eighth construction site. From 1991 the construction site was run as a new opencast mine. The opencast mine was seamlessly connected to the Goitzsche opencast mine to the east. The operation took place between 1985 and 1994. 24 million tons of coal were mined. The Bitterfeld upper seam with a thickness of 5–8 meters was mined. The remaining stocks are 246.1 million tons of coal.

Delitzsch Southwest opencast mine

The open pit is located south of Delitzsch . The operation took place between 1976 and 1993. 92.6 million tons of coal were mined. The Bitterfeld upper seam with a thickness of 1.5-10 meters was mined. The remaining supplies are 108.5 million tons of coal.

Breitenfeld opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Delitzsch Südwest opencast mine to the south. The operation took place between 1982 and 1991. 7.4 million tons of coal were mined. The Bitterfeld upper seam with a thickness of 7 meters was mined. To the south of the A 14, the Gröbers seam with a thickness of 0-10 meters was to be included in the mining. The remaining stocks are 525.6 million tons of coal.

further lignite deposits in northern Saxony

In the area between the northern border, Bad Düben , Eilenburg and Torgau , the seams Düben, Bitterfeld, Breitenfeld and Gröbers with coal thicknesses of up to 20 meters are widespread. The lower lying seams of Bruckdorf and Nichtewitz with coal thicknesses of up to 20 meters are only available in the Bad Düben and Torgau areas. The Bitterfeld seam as the uppermost mineable seam lies under cover layers up to 100 meters thick and is therefore not economically exploitable from today's perspective.

Opencast mine Böhlen

The open pit is located south of Markkleeberg . The operation took place between 1921 and 1999. In 1969 the opencast mine was renamed the Zwenkau opencast mine . 586 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 2 to 15 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 2 to 8 meters were mined. The remaining supplies are 80 million tons of coal. The originally planned inclusion of the city area of Zwenkau and the southern area up to the Peres opencast mine in the Zwenkau mine was not implemented. The pit is on the west side of the opencast mine

Zwenkau lignite works (1893 to 1906) Production of approx. 629,760 tons of coal in civil engineering,

the mine field was partially dredged over between 1949 and 1952.

Weideroda opencast mine

The opencast mine is connected to the Böhlen opencast mine to the south . Operation was planned from 1998 to 2020. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 2–15 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 2–8 meters were planned for mining. The content of the deposits is around 200 million tons of coal.

Cospuden opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Zwenkau opencast mine to the north. The operation took place between 1981 and 1992. 32 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 8 to 12 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 2 to 6 meters were extracted. The remaining stocks, including the Zöbigker additional field , amount to around 25 million tons of coal.

Espenhain opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Zwenkau opencast mine to the east. The operation took place between 1937 and 1996. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 8 to 14 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 0 to 12 meters were mined.

Westfeld, in operation from 1937 to 1981. 446 million tons of coal were mined here.

Ostfeld, in operation from 1982 to 1996. 113.4 million tons of coal were mined here. The remaining stocks are around 120 million tons of coal. The end of operation was originally planned for 1995. By then, the remaining stocks should also have been depleted.

Störmthal opencast mine

The open pit adjoins the east field of the Espenhain open pit to the east . Operation was planned from 1996 to 2039. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 8 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 4 meters were planned for mining. The content of the deposit is 380 million tons of coal.

Liebertwolkwitz Ost opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Störmthal opencast mine to the northeast. The boundaries of the opencast mine in the east should be the towns of Liebertwolkwitz , Holzhausen and Baalsdorf , in the north the A 14 and in the south the towns of Fuchshain and Großpösna .

Witznitz II opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Espenhain opencast mine to the south. The operation took place between 1943 and 1993. 256.8 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam and the Borna main seam were mined. The opencast mine is divided into several subfields.

Construction site I, in operation from 1943 to 1960, thickness of the Böhlen upper seam 0 to 8 meters, Borna main seam thickness 16 to 25 meters

Construction site II, operated from 1961 to 1974, thickness of the Böhlen upper seam 3 to 7 meters, Borna main seam thickness 13 to 18 meters

Construction field III, in operation from 1975 to 1993, thickness of the Böhlener upper seam 4 to 7 meters, Borna main seam thickness of 8 to 12 meters. The pit is at the southeast corner of the construction site

Gotthilf in Gestewitz (1886–1896) 107,240 t

Gaulis construction site , the field was no longer used. The reserves are 205 million tons of coal. The thickness of the Böhlen upper seam is 8 to 9 meters in the east field and 5 to 6 meters in the west field. The thickness of the Borna main seam is 7 to 9 meters in the east and 13 to 16 meters in the west. The Thuringian main seam is also formed in the field with a thickness of 4–9 meters. The pit is in the eastern field

Margaretha in Espenhain (1901 to 1915) mining 794,780 tons of coal in civil engineering.
Dora & Helene opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins construction site III of the Witznitz II opencast mine to the south. The operation took place between 1907 and 1934. 23.4 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 2 to 7 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 10 to 18 meters were mined.

Victoria open pit mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Dora & Helene opencast mine to the southeast. The operation took place between 1907 and 1934. 10.6 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 1 to 2 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 10 to 12 meters were mined.

Lobstädt open-cast mine

The opencast mine emerged from the union of the Dora & Helene and Victoria opencast mines. The operation took place between 1935 and 1938. 7.7 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 1 to 3 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 13 to 15 meters were mined. With the open pit, the mine shaft area also became

Vikoria (1901 to 1909), extraction of approx. 1 million tons of coal in civil engineering,

dredged over.

Witznitz I opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Victoria opencast mine to the east. The operation took place between 1911 and 1947. 39 million tons of coal were mined, of which 31.3 million tons by 1941. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 1 to 7 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 8 to 16 meters were extracted. With the open-cast mining, the shaft areas of the pits also became

Frommhold lignite works (1871–1888), mining 33,580 tons of coal in civil engineering
Marie (1871 to 1911), extraction of 196,280 tons of coal in civil engineering,
Beyrisch (1888 to 1904), mining 137,550 tons of coal in civil engineering,

dredged over.

Opencast mine Borna Nord

The opencast mine adjoins the Victoria opencast mine to the south. The operation took place between 1910 and 1939. 27.7 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 2 to 4 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 12 to 15 meters were mined. The mine site was on the eastern flank of the mine

Brown coal works Borna-Lobstädt with the Karlschacht (1872 to 1911), extraction of approx. 850,000 tons of coal in underground and open-cast mining.
Opencast mine Borna Süd

The open pit adjoins the Borna Nord opencast mine to the south. The operation took place between 1939 and 1970. 120.3 million tons of coal were mined. The only partially existing Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 3 to 4 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 12 to 17 meters were mined. Between 1961 and 1963, the remaining coal from the Regis VII opencast mine was extracted. This was abandoned in 1954 after a flood. The mine shaft area was located in the area of the opencast mine

Reward (1877 to 1926), production of approx. 2.95 million tons of coal in underground and open-cast mining,
Wilhelmschacht (1894 to 1923), extraction of approx. 4.3 million tons of coal in underground and open-cast mining.

Both pit fields were partially dredged over.

Opencast mine Borna-Ost

The opencast mine is located east of the Borna-Süd and Neukirchen-Wyhra opencast mines. The operation took place between 1960 and 1985. 98.2 million tons of coal were mined. The only partially existing Böhlen top seam with a thickness of 0 to 4 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 4 to 12 meters were mined. The opencast mine is divided into several subfields.

Construction site I, in operation from 1960–1965

Site II, in operation from 1966–1972

Site III, in operation from 1973–1979

Construction site IV, in operation from 1980–1985

In the area of the southern tip of the opencast mine was the site of the pit

Bubendorfer coal works, until 1901 Himmelreich Benndorf (1872 to 1927), extraction of approx. 3.6 million tons of coal in underground and open-cast mining. The 1 to 6 meter thick Borna main seam was mined.

The pit field was partially dredged over. There were other old pits in the area. The total production of these mines between 1868 and 1888 is 156,000 tons of coal.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Brown coal works Böttcher and comrades	1868	1876	Frauendorf	set
Frohburger Kohlenwerk Aktiengesellschaft	1873	1877	Frohburg	set
W. Görnitz lignite works	1868	1869	Bubendorf	set
JG Heinicke lignite works	1868	1877	Neukirchen	set
R. Herrmann lignite works	1882	1887	Neukirchen	set
JG Karthe lignite works	1868	1888	Benndorf	set
Flama lignite plant	1948	1951	Benndorf	set

Bockwitz opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Borna-Ost opencast mine to the east. The operation took place between 1982 and 1992. 10.8 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 0 to 3 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 4 to 6 meters were mined. The remaining stocks are approximately 12.6 million tons of coal. Several old pits were located in the northern, no longer mined field of the opencast mine. The total production of these pits between 1868 and 1941 was 870,000 tons of coal

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Andrew's shaft	1890	1911	Dittmannsdorf	set
Commungrube Borna	1868	1869	Bockwitz	set
Lignite works God's blessing	1868	1885	Dittmannsdorf	set
God's blessing open pit. God's blessing	1893 1900	1899 1950	Kesselhain	set
W. Heine lignite works	1868	1876	Dittmannsdorf	set
E. Kunze lignite works	1868	1876	Bockwitz	set
Council pit	1868	1887	Bockwitz	set
Council pit	1870	1877	Kesselhain	set

Kitzscher opencast mine

The open-cast mine was to be built northeast of the Bockwitz open-cast mine. It was limited by the localities of Kitzscher , Hainichen , Otterwisch , Lauterbach and Steinbach . In the field, the Bitterfeld seam is 0–3 meters thick, the Böhlener upper seam with 4–5 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 1–5 meters. Another small field was planned between Steinbach and Bad Lausick .

Neukirchen-Wyhra opencast mine

The open-cast mine adjoins the Borna Süd open-cast mine to the southeast. The operation took place between 1897 and 1963. 240 million tons of coal were mined. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 1–3 meters, the Thuringian main seam with a thickness of 1–3 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 10–15 meters were mined. The pit area was located in the area of the opencast mine

Förster (1888–1892), extraction of 102,980 tons of coal in civil engineering
Wyhra (1893–1900), extraction of approx. 630,000 tons of coal in civil engineering

The pit was located at the southeast tip of the opencast mine

Einsiedel zu Benndorf lignite plant (1905–1916), extraction of 585,150 tons of coal in open-cast mining
Opencast mine Kraft I

The opencast mine adjoins the Neukirchen-Wyhra opencast mine to the south. The operation took place between 1907 and 1942. Only a small part of the opencast mine was located on Saxon territory. Mining took place here from 1907–1916 and when the open-cast mine was phased out in 1942. The greater part of the open-cast mine was in Thuringia . The pits were located south of the opencast mine near Eschefeld

Glück Auf (1868–1925), mining 842,700 tons of coal in underground and open-cast mining
Müller's lignite works (1885–1927), mining 859,430 tons of coal in civil engineering

The Borna main seam with a thickness of 8-14 meters was mined here.

Opencast mine Kraft II ( Deutzen )

The opencast mine is located west of the Borna Nord opencast mine, between the Witznitz II and Borna Süd opencast mines. The operation took place between 1911 and 1960. 160 million tons of coal were mined, of which 29.4 million tons by 1941. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 2 to 6 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 15 to 20 meters were mined.

Grube Glück Auf Blumroda (from 1912 Kraft III)

The underground mine was located between the Borna Süd and Neukirchen-Wyhra opencast mines. Operation took place between 1872 and 1931. 5.4 million tons of coal were mined.

Regis I opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Regis VII opencast mine to the west. The operation took place between 1904 and 1935. 19 million tons of coal were mined.

Regis II opencast mine

The opencast mine adjoins the Regis I opencast mine to the south. The operation took place between 1930 and 1939. 8.7 million tons of coal were mined.

Opencast mine Regis III

The opencast mine was located between the Regis I opencast mines in the south and Kraft II in the north. The operation took place between 1936 and 1940. 6.2 million tons of coal were mined.

Opencast mine Regis IV

The opencast mine adjoins the Regis III opencast mine to the west. The operation took place between 1937 and 1948. Approx. 40 million tons of coal were mined.

Regis VII opencast mine (Blumroda)

The open pit was located between the Regis I and Borna Süd opencast mines. The operation took place between 1948 and 1954. Approx. 5 million tons of coal were mined. During a flood in July 1954, the opencast mine was flooded by the Pleiße . Operations did not resume. Between 1961 and 1963 the remaining field was dredged over by the Borna Süd opencast mine.

Regis South opencast mine

The opencast mine was planned between the Haselbach opencast mines in the west, Regis II in the north, and Borna Süd and Neukirchen-Wyhra in the east. The operating time was estimated for the period 2018–2027. The content of the deposits is around 150 million tons of coal. The Borna main seam with a thickness of 10-15 meters and the Thuringian lower seam with a thickness of 5-8 meters were mined in all opencast mines.

Kulkwitz opencast mine

The opencast mine is located northwest of the Böhlen / Zwenkau opencast mine. Mining began in 1864 in what was later to be the open pit. From 1868 to 1937, 13.2 million tons of coal were mined. Opencast mining began in 1938. Up to the decommissioning in 1964, around 28 million tons of coal had been produced. The Gröbers seam was mined with a thickness of 2 to 13 meters.

Peres open pit mine

The opencast mine is located west of the Witznitz II opencast mine. It has been in operation since 1963. In 1991, the opencast mine was suspended. In 2016, production operations were resumed. Up to 1991, 139.9 million tons of coal had been mined. The remaining stocks are around 120 million tons of coal. The only partially existing Thuringian main seam with a thickness of 0 to 8 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 8 to 12 meters were mined. The pit area was located in the area of the opencast mine

Saxonia in Wischstauden (1907–1912), production 54,500 t
God's blessing (1870–1872), funding 11,300 tons

The pits were to the west of the open-cast mine near Groitzsch

Berthagrube (1900–1914), production 172,480 t
Altengroitzsch lignite works (1873–1891), production 573,390 t
Schleenhain opencast mine

The open pit adjoins the Peres open pit to the south. The southwest corner of the opencast mine is in Thuringia. It was operated from 1949–2018. Approx. 510 million tons of coal were mined. The Thuringian main seam with a thickness of 2 to 10 meters, the Borna main seam with a thickness of 12 to 25 meters and the Thuringian lower seam with a thickness of 2 to 30 meters were mined. On the east side of the open pit is the pit of the

Brown coal union Breunsdorf (1904–1930) Promotion of approx. 2.88 million tons of coal in civil engineering,

the mine field was partially dredged over between 1949 and 1952.

Groitzscher Dreieck opencast mine

The opencast mine is located west of the Schleenhain opencast mine. The southernmost extension of the opencast mine is in Thuringia. It has been in operation since 1974. In 1991, the open-cast mine was suspended. Until 1991 45.6 million tons of coal were mined. The remaining stocks are around 68 million tons of coal. The Thuringian main seam with a thickness of 2 to 8 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 4 to 10 meters were mined.

Haselbach opencast mine

The opencast mine is located between the Schleenhain and Regis opencast mines. The southern part of the opencast mine, around 25 percent, is located in Thuringia. It was operated from 1955–1977. 125.9 million tons of coal were mined. The Borna main seam with a thickness of 10 to 15 meters and the Thuringian lower seam with a thickness of 1 to 10 meters were mined. After a tipping point, operations were stopped prematurely in 1977. On the west side of the open pit is the pit of the

Ramsdorfer brown coal works (1899 to 1939) extraction of approx. 7.44 million tons of coal in civil engineering,

whose pit field was partially dredged between 1969 and 1973.

Profen opencast mine

The opencast mine is located west of the Peres and Groitzscher Dreieck opencast mines. Of the eight opencast mining fields, five are wholly or partially on Saxon territory. In operation since 1941.

Sachsenfeld, operated from 1953–1963, entirely in Saxony from 1955–1963

Site Ia, operated from 1962–1965, entirely in Saxony

Construction field Ib, operated from 1966–1973, entirely in Saxony

Profen Nord, in operation from 1971–1991, wholly or partially in Saxony from 1973–1974. The Thuringian main seam with a thickness of 8-10 meters was mined. The plans to expand the north to Kitzen and Großgörschen were discontinued in 1990/91.

Profen Süd, in operation 1971–2019, from 1999–2019 partly in Saxony

Elsteraue Süd opencast mine

The field extends between the Profen and Groitzscher Dreieck opencast mines. In the field there are the Böhlen upper seam with 4-6 meters, the Thuringian main seam with 5-10 meters, the Borna main seam with 2-7 meters and the Thuringian lower seam with 2-4 meters.

Open pit field complex south

The field extends between the Schleenhain opencast mine in the north, Haselbach in the east and the Thuringian opencast mines Marie II and Marie III in the west. Only the northern tip of the open pit is in Saxony.

Dölitz underground mine

The pit is located in the southern urban area of Leipzig. It was operated from 1902 to 1961. About 4.3 million tons of coal were mined from 1902 to 1941. The Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 12 to 14 meters and the Borna main seam with a thickness of 3 to 6 meters were extracted.

Small and micro storage facilities in Central Germany

Area Bad Lausick

There was mining here in several localities. The Borna main seam with a thickness of 0–6 meters and the Böhlen upper seam with a thickness of 4–6 meters were mined. From 1868 to 1928 around 2.8 million tons of coal were mined.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
L. Dietze lignite works	1868	1873	Bad Lausick	set
Egloffstein lignite works	1868	1879	Desert stone	set
Ch. Gentzsch lignite works	1868	1876	Desert stone	set
Union of Graf Moltke Stockheim coal works	1897 1909	1909 1915	Stockheim	set
Maximilian Pit	1911	1939	Flößberg	set
K.FA Häntze lignite works	1888	1896	Koellsdorf	set
Brown coal works FH Heinicke	1868	1897	Koellsdorf	set
Lignite plant C. F. Heinold lignite works KE Seirig	1868 1883	1882 1888	Desert stone	set
Brown coal works J.CG Heinze Glück Auf	1888 1895	1895 1918	Desert stone	from 1919 to the Beucha lignite works
CA Hessel lignite works	1869	1888	Koellsdorf	set
J.G. lignite works Hofmann	1868	1893	Heinersdorf	set
Brothers Koch brown coal works	1871	1876	Heinersdorf	set
D. Krause lignite works	1873	1875	Reichersdorf	set
A. Kretzschmar lignite works	1868	1887	Heinersdorf	set
J.G. lignite works Lägel	1868	1896	Koellsdorf	set
Chr. Lange lignite works	1874	1885	Heinersdorf	set
Chr. Lange lignite works	1874	1889	Heinersdorf	set
Lausicker Kirchlehen early mass	1868 1875	1874 1888	Bad Lausick	set
J.G. lignite works Lori	1868	1880	Heinersdorf	set
H. Müller lignite works	1868	1888	Heinersdorf	set
L. Peters lignite works	1868	1881	Koellsdorf	set
Brown coal works Fr. Br. Rieker	1889	1906	Ballendorf	set
Brown coal works F.A. Rößner lignite works HG Heinig lignite works Beucha	1868 1890 1910	1889 1909 1922	Desert stone	from 1923 to the Böhlen lignite works, operation ceased in 1928
Brown coal works G. Rößner Brown coal works R. Methe	1886 1903	1888 1918	Desert stone	from 1919 to the Beucha lignite works
Lignite plant B. J. What a shame	1890	1906	Desert stone	set
G. Seirig lignite works	1868	1891	Koellsdorf	set
Brown coal works K.E. Be God's blessing	1888 1892	1891 1928	Heinersdorf	set
Brown coal factory formerly God's blessing	1947	1951	Heinersdorf	set
R. Uhlemann lignite works	1881	1897	Heinersdorf	set
J.MF Waage lignite works	1876	1881	Koellsdorf	set
Lignite plant A. Wießner lignite plant KF Krause	1869 1874	1873 1886	Heinersdorf	set
Brown coal works J.E. wolf	1874	1879	Koellsdorf	set

Colditz area

The Bitterfeld seam was mined. In addition to the main deposit near Colditz with a thickness of 2-11 meters, there were other small island deposits in Zollwitz (2.8-5.7 meters of coal), Zschirla (6.5 meters of coal), Thierbaum (1.0-7.0 Meters of coal), Nauenhain (1.7–2.2 meters of coal) and Lastau (1.5–2.0 meters of coal). From 1868 to 1941, about 1.3 million tons of coal were mined.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
God's blessing	1868	1880	Zschadraß	set
Trust in God	1868	1874	Zschadraß	set
Lignite plant W. Guhlmann pit Wilhelm	1868 1871	1870 1877	Collmen	set
Good Hope	1868	1902	Zschadraß	set
J.CG Henschel lignite works	1876	1924	Commichau	set
Lignite works J.GF Kirbach Lignite works EJ Keiselt Lignite works JG Kunze	1868 1874 1888	1873 1888 1907	Skoplau	set
G. Kupfer lignite works	1868	1884	Thierbaum	set
Brown coal works F.L. Sneezer	1868	1924	Skoplau	set
Reiswitz lignite works	1869	1873	Podelwitz	set
Lignite plant of Reiswitz lignite plant G. Henschel	1868 1875	1875 1924	Skoplau	set
Lignite plant C.W. Rösser lignite works E.J. Perschmann	1875 1880	1880 1900	Thierbaum	set
J.G. lignite works Sebastian Brown Coal Works Friedemann, Brothers Brown Coal Works Thierbaum	1874 1895 1908	1893 1907 1959	Thierbaum	set
Wettin mine	1894	1903	Commichau	set

Thümmlitzwald area

The Bitterfeld seam was mined. In addition to the main occurrence in the Thümmlitzwald with a thickness of 1–7 meters, there was a small occurrence on the Hühnerborn with a thickness of 1–2 meters. From 1868 to 1941 around 1.6 million tons of coal were mined.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Brown coal works Royal State Fiscus Royal Brown Coal Works State Brown Coal Works VEB Brown Coal Works Leipnitz	1868 1901 1919 1949	1893 1918 1948 1958	Leipnitz	set
Brown coal works Royal State Fiscus Brown coal works Timmlitzwald Brown coal works Wetzig Brown coal works Wetzig & Schroth VEB (K) Brown coal mining Seidewitz	1873 1879 1888 1892 1949	1878 1887 1891 1906 1958	Tanndorf Seidewitz	from 1907 to the Royal Lignite Works
T. Winkler lignite works	1868	1876	Keiselwitz	set

Grimma area

The deck clay seam was dismantled. In addition to the two larger deposits of Ragewitz / Pöhsig with a thickness of 3–6 meters and Schkortitz / Kaditzsch / Bröhsen with a thickness of 4–8 meters, there were other small island deposits in Grechwitz (1.5–2.0 meters of coal) , Grimma (4.0 meters of coal) and Altenhain / Beiersdorf (3.5–8.0 meters of coal). In the small Deditz / Golzern deposit, the Düben seam was mined with a thickness of 5 meters. About 4.3 million tons of coal were mined from 1868 to 1941

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Brown coal plant Böttcher and comrades Brown coal plant FH Böttcher	1868 1873	1870 1876	Grimma	set
JF Bucheim lignite works	1868	1883	Golzern	set
EJ Bucheim lignite works	1881	1891	Deditz	set
Lignite works Chr.G. Canitz Lignite works Große & Co.	1891 1891	1890 1899	Golzern	set
Döbener Pfarrlehn	1870	1896	Grechwitz	set
Elsa Pit	1903	1926	Grechwitz Neunitz	set
Neunitz mine	1948	1952	Neunitz	set
Fuchshain lignite plant	1868	1882	Fox grove	set
W. Gerber lignite works	1868	1876	Poeh	set
Lignite works God's blessing	1886	1908	Schkortitz	set
Lignite works God's blessing	1870	1931	Beiersdorf Seelingstädt	set
Hahn and Julius lignite works	1871	1938	Grechewitz	set
Brown coal works Hessel and comrades brown coal works CE Hessel	1868 1881	1880 1898	Grechewitz	set
Braunkohlenwerk FH Hunger Braunkohlenwerk Naundorf	1888 1891	1890 1896	Naundorf	set
Lignite works Royal State Fiscus Royal Lignite Works	1868 1893	1892 1901	Kaditzsch Grechwitz	set
Lignite works CF Kretzschmar Lignite works CFE Grosse	1869 1873	1872 1880	Golzern	set
Martha lignite works	1893	1904	Schkortitz	set
Martha Pit	1948	1952	Schkortitz	set
Maxschacht lignite works	1897	1908	Bröhsen	set
H. Otto lignite works	1868	1887	Naundorf	set
FW Scheunert lignite works	1868	1876	Ragewitz	set
Brown coal works E. Schilbach Union of the Grechwitz Grimmaer brown coal mining association Emiliengrube	1884 1888 1892	1889 1898 1929	Grechewitz	set
Brown coal works FA Schippan Brown coal works Schippan Alinengrube	1868 1899	1898 1923	Ragewitz	set
Brown coal works FF Schumann Brown coal works LJ Biermann Grube Gertrud	1884 1896 1898	1895 1897 1915	Naundorf	set
EF Seidel lignite works	1902	1916	Kaditzsch	set
Lignite plant Schippan Floragrube lignite plant Grube Flora	1900 1949	1948 1956	Ragewitz	set
Brown coal works Weber and Schrot Brown coal works Weber and Graunitz	1868 1883	1882 1887	Grechwitz	set

Wurzen area

To the left of the hollow, the Düben seam and the cover clay seam with thicknesses of 2.5 to 6.0 meters were mined in a large coal deposit. To the right of the hollow, the Bitterfeld seam was mined in some island areas. So in Schmölen / Pausitz (2.5–3.0 meters of coal), Wurzen (2–4.5 meters of coal), Böhlitz (1.5 meters of coal), Kühren / Streuben (2.0–3.5 meters of coal ), Pyrna / Fremdiswalde (5.2 meters of coal), Dahlen (4.0–9.0 meters of coal) and Müglenz. Approximately 3.37 million tons of coal were mined from 1868 to 1941.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Agnesgrube lignite works	1868	1908	Zeititz	set
Amaliengrube lignite mine	1868	1888	Zeititz	set
Lignite Resurrection	1868	1879	Brandis	set
Brown coal mill reward	1868	1893	Luebschütz	set
Brown coal works HE Friedrich Brown coal works Elisabeth	1885 1896	1896 1902	Mark Ottendorf	set
Fresh luck lignite works	1868 1912	1898 1961	Brandis	set
Lignite works God's blessing	1891	1925	Brandis	set
Else lignite mine	1907	1925	Zeititz	set
Brown Coal Works Good Hope	1920	1925	Brandis	set
Brown coal works from Hohenthal Brown coal works LG Grünberg	1868 1879	1878 1888	Altenbach	set
Johannesgrube	1869	1877	Altenbach	set
Kippenberg lignite works	1920	1950	Brandis	set
Kleinzschepa briquette plant	1908	1921	Kleinzschepa	set
Brown coal works GR Klinkhardt	1895	1905	Altenbach	set
King Albert lignite works	1902	1914	Spice up	set
GH Mannewitz lignite works	1896	1902	Pausitz	set
Lignite plant Rosenthal lignite plant Fremdiswalde	1903 1914	1913 1925	Nerchau	set
Saxonia lignite plant	1868	1874	Nepperwitz	set
G. Schönert lignite works	1888	1896	Bennewitz	set
Strantz lignite works	1893	1897	Smooching	set
Thomholzgrube lignite works	1918	1922	Pausitz	set
Lignite plant E. Weidling lignite plant E. Wendt	1885 1886	1886 1896	Bennewitz Leulitz	set
Polenz opencast mine	1947	1950	Polenz	set

Mittweida area

In the area there are island-like remains of the Bitterfeld seam of both the upper bank and the lower bank. The coal thicknesses are 1.0–4.0 meters in Ottendorf, 0.1–9.0 meters in Frankenau, 0.5–5.0 meters in Altmittweida and 0.5 meters in Königshain. From 1868 to 1924 around 195,000 tons of coal were mined.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Brown coal works Bärensprung and Comrades brown coal works Bärensprung and Starke	1868 1881	1880 1897	Frankenau	set
Brown coal works FH Beckert Brown coal works CO Bertholdt	1868 1876	1875 1897	Frankenau	set
EH Böttcher lignite works	1868	1895	Altmittweida	set
FE Fuhrmann lignite works	1868	1891	Altmittweida	set
Brown coal works CFE Gelbrich brown coal works H. Hunger	1868 1884	1883 1888	Altmittweida	set
Brown coal works Ch.Fr. Johst	1868	1907	Altmittweida	set
HF Kirbach lignite works	1868	1874	Altmittweida	set
Lignite plant CW Krasselt Torfholz degradation Altmittweida	1877 1920	1905 1922	Altmittweida	set
EF Möhler lignite works	1868	1905	Altmittweida	set
Brown coal works CE Müller	1880	1899	Ottendorf	set
Brown coal works W. Müller Brown coal works F. Rost	1872 1891	1890 1892	Altmittweida	set
Lignite plant JG judge lignite plant MG Mehnert	1868 1884	1883 1898	Altmittweida	set
Lignite works CH Schmidt	1868	1879	Altmittweida	set
CG Uhlig lignite works	1868	1872	Ottendorf	set
CF Ulbricht lignite plant	1868	1896	Altmittweida	set
Lignite works Wüstes Gut lignite works Seidel & Co.	1919 1921	1920 1924	Altmittweida	set
Mittweida lignite works	1947	1954	Frankenau Altmittweida Ottendorf	set

Meerane area

In the border region of Thuringia and Saxony there is a relic of the Bitterfeld seam. The coal thickness is 0–7 meters. The expansion of the seam is limited to the localities of Kleinmecka , Runsdorf , Pfarrsdorf and Zumroda in Thuringia and Tettau in Saxony. About 380,000 tons of coal were mined on the Saxon side between 1868 and 1913. Between 1947 and 1956, around 65,000 tons of coal were mined in the entire area.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Z. Heimer lignite works	1868	1876	Tettau	set
G. Küchler lignite works	1868	1881	Tettau	set
H. Leuthold lignite works	1868	1873	Tettau	set
J. Walther lignite works	1895 1911	1896 1913	Tettau	set
H. Thieme lignite works	1868	1908	Tettau	set
Lignite works Kreishilfsschacht Lignite works Tettau	1947 1951	1950 1956	Tettau Zumroda	set

Nossen area

The Beckwitz seam with a thickness of 0–7 meters was mined in this small deposit. About 71,000 tons of coal were extracted between 1868 and 1925. Another dismantling took place between 1946 and 1950.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Beyrisch brown coal works & Bärensprung brown coal works E. Beyrisch brown coal works J. Gappisch brown coal works Karcha	1868 1882 1899 1914	1881 1895 1913 1925	Karcha	set

Lommatzsch area

A seam was formed that reached a thickness of 1–6 meters in the area of the villages of Arntitz, Wuhnitz and Poititz. In Schwochau it was drilled with a thickness of 1.5 meters. About 82,500 tons of coal were mined between 1872 and 1884.

society	first mention in the yearbooks / year of foundation	Year of recruitment	Locality	Remarks
Arntitzer Braunkohlenbauverein Lommatzscher Braunkohlenwerk Braunkohlenwerk H. Köppe Arntitzer coal works and briquette factory	1872 1874 1880 1883	1874 1879 1882 1885	Arntitz	set
Arntitz coal mining company	1947	1950	Arntitz	set

further small deposits of lignite in Saxony

In the central Saxon area of Oschatz, Meißen and Döbeln there are other small deposits of lignite. These were discovered when building a well or through systematic searches using boreholes. These deposits were not mined for several reasons. The thickness of the seam, the contamination of the coal and the size and depth of the deposit played a role. Well known are deposits in Löthain (1.5 m coal), Schrebitz (Nossen) (2.8 m coal), Canitz (0.5 m coal), Tronitz (2.3 m coal), Schlagwitz-Mügeln (2-4 , 5 m coal), Merzdorf (0.5–1.6 m coal), as well as Bennewitz and Zaschwitz with unknown coal thickness.

literature

Yearbook for the mountain and hut man 1868 to 1872 Royal Bergakademie zu Freiberg
Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in the Kingdom of Saxony from 1873 to 1917
Yearbook for mining and metallurgy in Saxony 1918 to 1938
Mining directory of the Freiberg Mining Authority 1939-1941

Hard coal

Emil Herzog: History of the Zwickau hard coal industry. Verlag von Adler and Dietze, Dresden 1852.
Richard Friedrich Köttig: "Historical, technical and statistical notes on the hard coal mining of Saxony". Leipzig 1861
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Hermann Credner: "Explanations of the special geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony, Section Hohenstein-Limbach". Leipzig 1902
Hermann Credner: "Explanations of the special geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony, Section Augustusburg-Flöha". Leipzig 1907
Hermann Credner: "Explanations of the special geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony, Section Nassau". Leipzig 1887
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Brown coal

Regional planning association Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia: update of the lignite plan for the Nochten open-cast mine . Bautzen 2013.

Regional planning association Upper Lusatia-Lower Silesia: Brown coal plan for the Reichwalde opencast mine . Bautzen 1994.

Siegfried Körber: Lignite mining Nochten / Reichwalde-guarantor for long-term security of supply . Goerlitz 2009.

Friedrich Illner-Görlitz: The lignite deposits at Tschöpeln O.-L. 30 Booklet 2. Treatises of the Natural Research Society of Görlitz, Görlitz 1928.

Friedrich Illner-Görlitz: The brown coal deposits between Pechern, Priebus and Freiwaldau . 30 Booklet 2. Treatises of the Natural Research Society of Görlitz, Görlitz 1928.

Facies and geochemistry in the tertiary south of Leipzig . LfULG publication series issue 18/2013. Dresden 2013.

Andreas Berkner: The lignite mining in the southern area of Leipzig (= Mining in Saxony , Volume 11) Saxon State Office for Environment and Geology (Ed.), Dresden 2004

The Tertiary of Northwest Saxony . LfULG A geological overview. Dresden 2010.

Franz Etzold: The lignite formation of Northwest Saxony . Explanations of the special geological map of the Kingdom of Saxony. Royal Ministry of Finance, Leipzig 1912.

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Regional planning association West Saxony: Brown coal plan opencast mine United Schleenhain . Leipzig 2011.

Regional planning association for West Saxony: Lignite plan for the Espenhain open-cast mine . Grimma 2002.

Regional planning association for West Saxony: Lignite plan for the Delitzsch-Südwest / Breitenfeld opencast mine . Grimma 1999.

Regional planning association for West Saxony: Brown coal plan for the Zwenkau / Cospuden opencast mine . Grimma 2006.

Regional planning association West Saxony: Brown coal plan open-cast mine Borna-Ost / Bocwitz . Leipzig 1998.

Regional planning association for West Saxony: Lignite plan for the Witznitz opencast mine . Leipzig 1999.

Regional planning association for West Saxony: Goitsche open-cast lignite plan . Leipzig 2002.