Saline Altensalz
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The Altensalz salt works was a salt production plant in Altensalz in the Saxon Vogtland .
history
The use of the brine springs that emerged in Altensalz can be traced back to 1493. However, the salt-water solution did not come from local rock salt deposits , but flowed underground from the Thuringian Basin . Due to a flood in 1542 the shafts were silted up and buried, the brine source dried up. Since the reign of Elector August von Sachsen (1553–1586) there have been repeated, but unsuccessful, efforts to resume salt production. In 1603, among others, the Saxon chief miner Martin Weigel was involved. Only the Landjägermeister Hans-Georg von Carlowitz (1586–1643) could start production again in 1641/42. Von Carlowitz had a graduation house 48 cubits long built, which was later extended to 168 cubits. The upswing was short-lived, however. After Carlowitz's death, the grounds fell into disrepair, and in 1656 part of the building was destroyed by fire.
Johann Christian Lehmann (1675–1739), a Leipzig physicist and doctor, was granted the privilege to use the Altensalz mineral spring in 1717. Four years later he had the existing buildings of the saline rebuilt and expanded. The economic success of the salt works of the loyal Saxons duty and construction, vivat Fridericus Augustus, king in Poland and Chur prince of Saxony was limited. Between 1727 and 1734, an average of less than 10 tons of salt was produced per year. In return, Lehmann had taken out a state loan of 25,000 thalers for the expansion of the salt works . The electoral Saxon mountain ridge and saltworks expert Johann Gottfried Borlach advised Lehmann several times to stop its high-loss salt production. But it was only after Lehmann's death that the salt works were shut down and the facilities demolished.
In the decades that followed, Artern , Bad Kösen and Bad Dürrenberg developed into the most efficient and powerful salt pans in Saxony. Only after the loss of these locations in the course of the Congress of Vienna was the Altensalzer brine spring remembered again. Investigations by the chemist Wilhelm August Lampadius and drilling by the salinist Carl Christian Friedrich Glenck confirmed that the salt content was too low (0.75–1.0%), so that the brine spring was not opened up again. From 1930 the Altensalz water (contains sodium, calcium, chloride) was used as a source of drinking. In the course of the construction of the Pöhl dam , the brine spring was finally closed in 1964.
literature
- Hans-Heinz Emons, Hans-Henning Walter: Old salt pans in Central Europe. On the history of salt production from the Middle Ages to the present , VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindindustrie, Leipzig 1988.
- Bernhard Stöckel: The salt water deposits of Altensalz. in: Communications of the Landesverein Sächsischer Heimatschutz Volume XVIII, Issue 3–4 / 1929, Dresden 1929, pp. 135–140