St. Anna am Freudenstein

Show mine St. Anna am Freudenstein
	General information about the mine
	Oral hole and chew of the "Upper Troster Stolln"
	Information about the mining company
Operating company	IG Historischer Bergbau Zschorlau 1989 eV
Start of operation	around 1470
End of operation	1872
Successor use	since 1992 as a show company
	Funded raw materials
Degradation of	Silver / lead / cobalt / bismuth / copper / nickel
Degradation of	lead
Degradation of	cobalt
Degradation of	bismuth
Degradation of	copper
Degradation of	nickel
	Geographical location
Coordinates	50 ° 34 '58.1 " N , 12 ° 39' 29.2" E Coordinates: 50 ° 34 '58.1 " N , 12 ° 39' 29.2" E
	Location St. Anna am Freudenstein show mine
Location	Zschorlau
local community	Zschorlau
District ( NUTS3 )	Erzgebirgskreis
country	Free State of Saxony
Country	Germany

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The St. Anna am Freudenstein show mine in Zschorlau is operated by the IG Historischer Bergbau Zschorlau 1989 eV association on an entirely voluntary basis. The mine with its entire system ( horse peg with shaft , heritage tunnel with wheel room, a water art , surface remains of a settlement and an ore wash) is a complete testimony to a medieval mine in the Ore Mountains .

history

History of the club

"Bergwerk wants to have understanding and a faithful hand"

In 1989 several people came together who knew about the existence of an old silver mine near Zschorlau. In September of the same year - at that time still within the framework of the Kulturbund der GDR - the opening and research of this mine began. After separating from the Kulturbund, an association was founded, which was entered in the register of associations at the responsible district court in Aue in 1992.

The Rainstein

In the forest area, near the Stoll mouth holes , there is an old Rain stone from the 15th century. It marks the border between the domains of the Lords of the Planitz at Wiesenburg Castle in Wiesenburg and those of Tettau at Schwarzenberg Castle in Schwarzenberg .

The stone is a large, probably erect, boulder . On the front is a large cross with an isosceles underneath, pointed upwards triangle as a border marking. This border marking was rediscovered by Gerhard Heilfurth in the 1930s .

There is another, smaller cross on the back of the stone. This was about taken around 1517 and shows the measuring point for the Markscheider during excavation of the Lower scalers Stollns represents.

Today the stone forms the "triangle" of the cities of Aue , Schneeberg and the municipality of Zschorlau.

geology

The mine is located in the Schneeberg mining area on the north-western edge of the large and complex Ore Mountains anticline zone at the transition to the Vogtland Synclinory and the Vorerzgebirge Basin. These large geological units belong to the Saxothuringian unit of the Variski Mountains . Most of the rocks around Zschorlau, which are predominantly slate today , were deposited in the Ordovician . Younger rocks from the Silurian and Devonian Mountains - alum slate , silica slate , and occasionally limestones such as ocher limestone - have only survived in isolated cases, above all in the area of the so-called Loessnitz - Zwönitzer Mulde .

The rocks of this area were pushed together, folded and riddled with faults during the Variscan mountain formation . In doing so, they were subject to a metamorphosis that transformed the predominant claystones in the Zschorlau area into slate and phyllite .

At the end of the mountain formation, about 330 to 295 million years ago, molten rock melted in two bursts, which today are massively exposed, especially in the large Eibenstock - Nejdek - granite , which is west of Zschorlau. There are also other granite deposits, especially the Gleesberg granite, which is important for the ore deposits of the silver mine . The rise of the granites was connected with another metamorphosis, which transformed the slates in their vicinity into hard horn rocks . Is related to the granite rise among other things, in St. Anna, but also in the wider area around by the bismuth SDAG at Schneeberg , Schlema and Alberoda mined mineralization caused by hydrothermal solutions and Greis education to the formation of selenium - tungsten - molybdenum - ores led.

The deposits of the western Ore Mountains are tied to several smaller plutons , the structure of which has led to a very complicated construction of the ore deposits. The ore deposits are designed as vein deposits . The following ores occur:

Quartz - Wolframite - Molybdenum luster veins

Sulfur pyrites - copper pebbles - Roteisenstein - ore veins

Carbonate - bismuth - cobalt - nickel - silver - uranium - veins

Mercury ores (Samuelis Spatgang near Hartenstein )

The ore veins of the Schneeberger Revier show, like almost all veins of the Ore Mountains , an enrichment of the ore minerals through weathering processes . In the vicinity of the earth's surface, the influence of the groundwater led to ore minerals being dissolved and precipitated again under suitable chemical-physical conditions. This so-called cementation zone is characterized by an enrichment of the ore minerals. The resulting by these operations Reicherze are located in the upper zones of the veins, back to the depth vertauben this, so that the degradation is difficult and no longer worthwhile.

Puppet theater

Theater stage in the quartz cave

"He has spent his life best, who has made most people happy"

When the mining association was founded in 1989 to repair old mine workings on “St. Anna ”to overcome in order to make the achievements of the ancestors visible and tangible to the public, the overcoming of the much younger Quarzzeche was still a long way off.

In 1999 the time had come: after extensive security work, the quartz cave was made accessible to the public and layers of mace were possible for visitors. But how can this delightful cave be filled with life over the year? Club member Markus Link, as a newcomer, was fascinated by the Ore Mountains and its mining tradition and dealt with regional history. He came across many references to the tradition of the traveling puppet theater , which has almost died out. So the idea was born to bring this old folk art back to the Ore Mountains and to help preserve it.

Not an easy step. Theater with high humidity, spectators at refrigerator temperature and many other questions had to be answered. And puppeteers were needed to swap the warm inn room for the conditions underground. On September 19, 1999, the first experimental guest performance started with the “Traditional Marionette Theater of the Kressig-Dombrowsky Family” from Engertsdorf near Altenburg in Thuringia . Between 1900 and 1950, the Kressig ancestors often moved their caravans from inn to inn in the Ore Mountains. These roots were still present in the great-grandson.

14 family and five adult events attracted around 700 visitors to the cool theater in the “quartz cave”. The test run was a success. From the year 2000, the theater spectacles underground were planned for the summer months. Around 13,500 visitors found their way to the coldest summer theater in Saxony by 2008 and were able to choose between 13 children's and family programs and ten adult programs. Other projects include the development of regional piece templates, about the origins of mining on the Freudenstein, about the legend of the establishment of the Tellerhäuser settlement or about the Schnorr von Carolsfeld family .

In the future, an elevator option is to be created for wheelchair users so that they do not have to withhold this experience from these people.

repertoire

For children, many of the most famous classic and Grimm fairy tales are played, for example:

Rumpelstiltskin	Little Red Riding Hood	The Struwelpeter
Mountain Spirit Rübezahl	Set the table	The Frog Prince
Hansel and Gretel	Mother Hulda	The valiant dressmaker
Puss in Boots	the snow Queen	Snow White and Rose Red
The witch Kaukau	The wish lantern	Dwarf king Laurin and the rose fairy

Various pieces are also played for adults. Some of these are historical plays based on true events in the regional history of Saxony or very old classic puppet pieces, such as a version of the Urfaust

Countess Cosel	The Freischütz	Karl Stülpner
Dr. Faust's journey into hell	The tailor of Venice	Genoveva

gallery

Day opening of a weather shaft of the "St. Anna Stolln "
Mouth hole of the "St. Anna Stolln ”with a chew over a mine
Remnants of the foundation wall of the Steiger residential building on the Pferdegöpel, with ore storage cellar
View of the old Zschorlau gas works after the renovation