Silver blessing shaft
| Silver blessing shaft | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
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| Information about the mining company | |||
| Start of operation | 1817 | ||
| End of operation | 1930 | ||
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| Degradation of | Lead luster, zinc blende | ||
| Greatest depth | 420 m | ||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 48 '22 " N , 10 ° 18' 52" E | ||
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| Location | Clausthal-Zellerfeld | ||
| local community | Clausthal-Zellerfeld | ||
| District ( NUTS3 ) | Goslar | ||
| country | State of Lower Saxony | ||
| Country | Germany | ||
| District | Clausthal mining inspection | ||
The Silbersegener Schacht or (straightening) shaft Silbersegen is a production shaft of the Upper Harz lead and zinc mining on the Rosenhöfer Gangzug in Clausthal-Zellerfeld in the Upper Harz (Lower Saxony).
history
The Saigere Silbersegener Schacht was sunk in 1817 and was 420 m deep. Its construction was related to the deep water route (1803-1835), a so-called swamp route . It was used to collect the pit water from the Clausthal mines that was pumped out of deeper tunnels . In the Silbersegener Schacht, the pit water was lifted onto the Tiefen-Georg tunnel by means of two water column machines. From there they flowed through the existing gradient to the mouth hole in Bad Grund .
When the idea of using barges to transport the ores on the deep water route, the Silbersegener Schacht also served as a delivery shaft. From 1878 this shaft was extracted on the Ottiliae shaft . With the completion of the deepest waterway in 1898, the shaft also lost the function of drainage, which then took place on the Königin-Marien-Schacht . Nevertheless, the shaft was used for material transport with its obsolete turning wheel conveyor until mining in Clausthal was discontinued in 1930.
The shaft was closed forever in 1982 with a concrete filling column.
Technical monuments, traces
No noteworthy remains have survived. Today there is a dog sports field on the dump. On the part of the Upper Harz Mining Museum , efforts are being made to gradually develop the site together with other archaeological monuments from the Rosenhof mine into an educational mining trail .
literature
- Hermann Banniza: The mining and metallurgy of the Upper Harz . Enke, Stuttgart 1895 (VI. General German Miners' Day in Hanover).
- Torsten Schröpfer: Treasure trove: Interesting facts about the West Harz mining and metallurgy . 1st edition. Pieper, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2000, ISBN 3-923605-08-0 (series of publications by the Oberharzer Geschichts- und Museumsverein eV Clausthal-Zellerfeld).
- Mathias Döring: Energy generation above and below ground - The Reichenbach-Jordan water column machines. Writings of the German Water History Society Vol. 19, 2012, 39–60.