Schmid shaft
The Schmid-Schacht is a listed mining facility in Helbra in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located at the southern entrance to Helbra, on the west side of the main street . To the north, the railway line runs along the Wipperliese , which also has a stop here.
history
The shaft was sunk between 1844 and 1846 to a depth of 184 meters, with dimensions of 2.5 by 4.4 meters. It was the first time that the depth of the key tunnel of the Helbra copper mining district was developed. The name goes back to the Mansfeld smelter Carl Friedrich Schmid (1790-1845). During the sinking work there were significant problems with chutes and water ingress. The water was led into a section driven below the shaft via a pilot bore.
As early as 1864, the Schmid shaft lost its function as a delivery shaft , as the newly constructed Ernst shaft was used for this. It was converted into a manhole for drainage. Until the shaft was connected to the key tunnel in 1879, the water was lifted using pumps, after which it was drained into the key tunnel. Starting in 1900, around 500 m³ of water was then pumped as drinking and service water every day.
From October 1880, the Kochhütte, renamed August-Bebel-Hütte , was located in the vicinity of the shaft . It ceased production on September 10, 1990, when the copper slate was largely exhausted. The pumping of drinking and industrial water from the Schmid shaft was stopped in 1992. Until 2006, the inspection was carried out to inspect parts of the key gallery. In 2006 the shaft was filled.
In 2011, the Schmid-Schacht Helbra eV association was founded. In 2013, melting furnace X of the former August-Bebel-Hütte was set up south of the Schmid-Schacht.
In the local register of monuments , the mining facility is listed as a monument under registration number 107 40 032 .
architecture
The three-storey winding tower built in Zechstein around 1850 has been preserved on the heap of the Schmid shaft . The walls of the window openings are designed as round arches made of Siebegeröder sandstone . The roofing of the portal was made from the same material. In the interior of the building, a single-piece conveyor reel from 1892 has been preserved.
A hoisting machine house, designed as a single - storey half-timbered building , with a shaft chop adjoins the headframe . In the machine house there is a bobbin- flax rope winding machine from 1908. In addition, there is a mountain forge with preserved tool equipment and forge fire. A headframe made of riveted struts rises above the system . Access was carried out using a cage designed for two people.
The mine is one of the last of its kind in the area of the Mansfelder Mulde and shows the various mining functions in a remarkable cohesion.
literature
- Anja Tietz, Monument Register Saxony-Anhalt, Volume 16.1, District Mansfeld-Südharz (I), Altkreis Eisleben , Michael Imhof Verlag Halle, 2014, ISBN 978-3-7319-0130-3 , page 49 f.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt. , Page 2895.
Coordinates: 51 ° 32 ′ 44.2 " N , 11 ° 29 ′ 16.2" E