Schieferkaut Biebertal
| Slate chew | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Mining technology | Opencast mining , tunnel construction | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Employees | 8th | ||
| Start of operation | before 1858 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Roofing slate | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 50 ° 38 '41 " N , 8 ° 32' 37" E | ||
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| local community | Biebertal | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | to water | ||
| country | State of Hesse | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Wetzlar | ||
The Schieferkaut near Königsberg in the Biebertal in the district of Gießen was a small roofing slate pit. It is one of the mines in the Lahn-Dill area .
Origin and history
The roof slate pit near Königsberg was maintained around 1885 by a local resident who, with 4 - 8 miners, mined around 500 to 800 rice a 10 ′ in the summer months . The slates are dark blue in color and durable.
After 1885, the Langenhecker Dachschiefergesellschaft intended to drain the company through a tunnel from the Struppbachtal and to set up a large open-cast mine. The forecast of up to 28,000 rice slates should be extracted with 50 miners and delivered to the Giessen train station.
But this project never came about.
It is not known when the mine was closed.