Blessing God colliery

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Location of the Segen-Gottes-Schacht (top right)

The Segen-Gottes-Zeche and finally JD No. 1, 2 and 3 is a disused mining facility in the district of Háje (Zwittermühl) of the municipality of Potůčky (Breitenbach) in the Czech Republic , which was operated with longer interruptions from the 16th to the 20th century is. Today, some overgrown spoil heaps and buried tunnel mouth holes , including the Gotthold tunnel , in the upper Schwarzwassertal are reminiscent of the former colliery.

history

The Zottenberg (Čupřina) near Zwittermühl found great interest in the 16th century among coal and steel entrepreneurs who suspected rich veins here after some ore-laden crevices had been discovered there. The treasure trove was muted in 1576 at the competent mining authority Platten and not far from the road between Streitseifen (Podlesí) and Zwittermühl the Segen-Gottes-Stolln, whose mouth hole has fallen into disrepair today. About 35 kg of silver were extracted from the mine within 23 years. Later, a few hundred meters above the Obere Segen-Gottes-Stollen, and not far from it, an art shaft was sunk . Due to problems with the rising pit water and its uplift , however, the mine operation came to a standstill in 1743.

After the financially strong Bohemian border customs collector and town clerk of plates , Johann Franz Heßler (1693-1770), started operating the Segen-Gottes-Zeche with the Plattner union he founded , he left below the Zwittermühl town center on the Schwarzwasser in the direction of the boy stallion In 1758 the Gotthold tunnel was driven as a deep heritage tunnel into the Zottenberg, which drained the tunnel system above it in the direction of Schwarzwasser. As a result, the ore veins could now be mined without constant water problems , mainly cobalt [[extraction (mining) <extracted]] and further processed in a stamping mill on the black water.

In 1770 the thickness of the veins found decreased , so that the mining had to be stopped completely at the beginning of the 19th century. After several new mining operations were started, the Segen-Gottes-Zeche was shut down again in 1900. The dismantling was soon resumed and this time technology from the neighboring Goldenhöhe was used.

In 1923 there was a three-shift operation at the colliery. The bismuth ore obtained was processed, ground, washed and melted on site. On December 3rd, the year mentioned, there was an accident in which foreman Anton Teuser died from a 100-meter-deep fall from the first to the third level.

In 1930 the colliery was completely shut down. Like almost all mining facilities in the region, the Segen-Gottes-Zeche, represented by the J áchymovské d oly (Joachimsthal mines), was put back into operation in the summer of 1946 when the Soviet occupying forces were looking for uranium deposits . In 1956 the mining was stopped and the underground facilities were backfilled in 1964.

Sources and literature

  • Mining events of the Königl. Bergstadt Platten from 1529 to 1755. unfol.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 5. Hengstererbeer mining hike. Excursion guide from July 23, 2016, p. 5 (accessed November 23, 2017).
  2. ↑ Neudeker Heimatbrief, No. 109, p. 6.

Coordinates: 50 ° 25 ′ 5.7 ″  N , 12 ° 47 ′ 30.6 ″  E