Snow collar
A snow collar or snow neck was a protective passageway characteristic of high alpine mining . These were dug to or brick walkways above with wood studs or round wood were covered, and so throughout the year to some extent an avalanche safe access to the tunnels enabled. In addition, they offered protection from cornices and secured access to deep snow passages. Since miners' houses , factory buildings and processing plants were often connected to the mouth holes by a system of snow collars , the miners were spared the need to shovel snow. The passages, which are often made of dry stone, hardly reached a man's height and had to be crossed in a crouched position or crawling. Due by drifts blocked entrances of some snow collar remained temporarily impassable, and the miners had some dynamite crates, in the summer of horses were transported laboriously through the danger zone wear.
Snow collars revitalized for tourist purposes can be found in the historic gold and silver mining districts in the Rauris and Gastein valleys in the Hohe Tauern or in the South Tyrolean miners' settlement of St. Martin am Schneeberg .
Examples
- Zinc Wall -Vöttern tunnel educational trail, Schladminger Tauern
- Tauerngold circular hiking trail at the new building shelter , Goldberg group ( Hohe Tauern )
- Bockhart, Goldberg Group (Hohe Tauern)
- Mine under Heaven, Schneeberg , Stubai Alps
- Veitstollen, Schneeberg, Stubai Alps
Web links
- Video Snow Collar in the Kingdom of Heaven (YouTube)
- Photo gallery Schneekragen im Himmelreich (2014)
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert von Muchar: The valley and Warmbad Gastein according to all relationships and peculiarities according to their own view and reliable sources presented for doctors, physically ill, historical researchers, mineralogists, metallurgists, botanists and for friends of the highly romantic alpine nature. Damian and Sorge, Grätz 1834, 358 S. Online .
- ↑ Friends of Nature Austria & Hohe Tauern National Park (ed.): Information board on the Tauerngold circular hiking trail. Photo .
- ^ Fritz Gruber : Snow collar on the Bockhart. Via Aurea Wegen des Tauerngoldes, eV, accessed on September 27, 2017 .
- ↑ Memories of Josef Frohnwieser as a squire on the Rathausberg. Knappenmusikkapelle Radhausberg (originally published in Gasteiner Badeblatt ), accessed on September 27, 2017 .
