Silbergründle pit

Silbergründle pit
	General information about the mine
	Information about the mining company
Start of operation	before 1300
End of operation	1770
Successor use	Visitor mine
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Lead and silver
	Geographical location
Coordinates	48 ° 34 '48.1 " N , 8 ° 10' 4.9" E Coordinates: 48 ° 34 '48.1 " N , 8 ° 10' 4.9" E
	Location of the Silbergründle mine
local community	Seebach
District ( NUTS3 )	Ortenau district
country	State of Baden-Württemberg
Country	Germany

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The pit silver Gründle in Seebach in the Black Forest was a lead - and silver - mine . It is historically certain that mining began in the 12th or 13th century and ended around the year 1770. The pit has been used as a visitor mine since 1984 .

geology

The pit opens two quartz - gears , up to 1.5 m in thickness . Seebach granite is stone . The passages contain galena , tetrahedrite , and iron - manganese - and copper - oxides .

history

There have survived not historical name of the mine, the modern name is based on the name of the Gewanns in which the mine is located. Historical documents and certificates relating to the mine are completely missing. From the type of cleats grid development and the discovery of two oil lamp bowls from clay that have been dated to the 13th or 14th century, the beginning of mining in silver Gründle to the 12th or 13th century was narrow. Much older mining cannot be ruled out. In the 17th century, a map of Bosenstein Castle shows the Silbergründle for the first time. There is also evidence of mining for the 18th century, as the remains of wood found in the ore miner's hole tunnel were dated to the years 1767 to 1772.

Pit building

Upper and lower tunnels

The tunnels and shafts listed below are known, but measurements with the ground-penetrating radar showed further, unexcavated cavities.

Erzknappenlochstollen, 163 m long, probably served the water solution, is not penetrable to the other adit location
Low tunnels that mouth holes of Upper and Lower tunnels are only a few meters placed one above the other location
Upper gallery location
Höllenloch shafts 1 and 3, located in 6 m distance from each other, 14 and 15 m depth, are connected to the cross-cuts of the upper and lower cleat position
Shaft Höllenloch 2, buried and leveled, whether it is connected to the already known mine structure is unknown. Location

Visitor mine

From 1978, the local heritage association with the under the direction workover of Erzknappenstollens begun. In 1984 the visitor operation began in the Erzknappenlochstollen. Between 1984 and 2005, additional excavation campaigns made further parts of the mine accessible, so that the upper and lower tunnels are now open to visitors.

literature

Wolfgang Werner, Volker Dennert: Deposits and mining in the Black Forest. Published by the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining, Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2004, ISBN 3-00-014636-9 .

Web links

Website visitor mine

Individual evidence

↑ Werner, Dennert, 2004, p. 133.
^ B. Breyvogel, M. Matzke, U. Meyerdirks: Mining in the northern Black Forest since the Middle Ages. In: S. Lorenz: The Northern Black Forest. From the wilderness to the growth region. Pp. 177–187, Filderstadt 2001.
↑ Werner, Dennert, 2004, p. 172 ff.
↑ Werner, Dennert, 2004, p. 174.

[1] Werner, Dennert, 2004, p. 133.

[2] B. Breyvogel, M. Matzke, U. Meyerdirks: Mining in the northern Black Forest since the Middle Ages. In: S. Lorenz: The Northern Black Forest. From the wilderness to the growth region. Pp. 177–187, Filderstadt 2001.

[3] Werner, Dennert, 2004, p. 172 ff.

[4] Werner, Dennert, 2004, p. 174.