Artern saltworks
The Artern saltworks was a saltworks in Artern .
history
Kotten were already standing here in the Middle Ages . In 1477 the Mansfeld and Hohnstein houses owned the rights of the salt boiler. In 1521 the city of Artern also bought shares. Elector August bought it in 1580 . Five years later, the Schwarzburg house bought it and shut it down as it competed with it. Finally, August the Strong encouraged further salt development in the country, whereupon Johann Gottfried Borlach had boiling houses and graduation houses built on the other edge of Artern around 1733. The Saxon salt works director Heinrich Ulrich Erasmus von Hardenberg , father of Novalis , was from 1784 salt works director in Dürrenberg , Artern and Kösen .
After the Congress of Vienna , Artern came into Prussian possession in 1815 and from then on belonged to the Province of Saxony . From 1850 the brine was extracted from a new shaft with a steam engine. The Schwarzburg house sold the rights to Prussia; Friedrich Wilhelm III. ceded it to the city. This then set up a sanatorium. The facility was shut down in the 20th century because there were too many mosquitos . The Arterner Solgraben is today a nature reserve; mugwort grows there .
Web links
- Content overview. Salinverein Artern e. V., accessed on May 4, 2014 .
- Gustav Poppe: On the history of the older saltworks near Artern (= magazine of the Harz Association for History and Archeology . Volume 1 ). Self-published by the Harzverein, Wernigerode 1868, p. 308-317 ( books.google.de ).
Coordinates: 51 ° 21 '44 " N , 11 ° 17' 56" E