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The sulfur tunnel is a listed tunnel in the Harzgerode district of Alexisbad in the Harz in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The orifice of the gallery is located in the Selke valley on the right Selke shore . The Wilhelm-von-Kügelgen-Promenade runs in front of the tunnel. Immediately in front of the mouth hole, a footbridge leads over the Selke onto the Kreisstraße in the center of Alexisbad.
Design and history
The water dissolving gallery used for mining has been excavated on the Reichen-David-Gang since the 16th century. There were pyrites mined and lead-silver ores. In the middle of the 18th century the production was stopped.
A dark, iron-rich water leaked out of the tunnel and had been used as medicinal water since the 1760s .
The sulfur tunnel is entered as a tunnel in the local monument register.
At the former third light hole there is a circular planting of trees: the trompel .
literature
- State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7.2: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Winfried Korf and Theo Gosselke: Quedlinburg district. Halle 2007, ISBN 978-3-86568-072-3 , page 162.
Web links
- The sulfur gallery in Alexisbad. In: harzlife.de. Retrieved March 3, 2015 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 '58.9 " N , 11 ° 7' 6.3" E