St. Georg Stolln
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The Sankt-Georg-Stolln was of existential importance for the Johanngeorgenstädter Mining due to its expansion in the Fastenberg for the drainage of the loosened pits. It is located in the Johanngeorgenstadt mountain area in the Saxon Ore Mountains . Up until the middle of the 19th century, the name “St. Georgen Stolln ”. The corresponding St. Georg treasure trove and its dimensions also existed. In general, the designation as Georg occurs several times in the Johanngeorgenstadt mining history.
location
On the middle Fastenberg , on which Johanngeorgenstadt extends, in the 17th, 18th, 19th In the 20th and 20th centuries, several pits were operated to mine directly adjacent ore veins . This also included the Sankt Georg-Stolln, muted in 1672 , also awarded and posted at 674.12 m above sea level . It has a connection to the Einigkeiter-adit and after its closure it was the deepest water-draining adit in the area. Silver finds were not made on the tunnel itself. However, through the water solution in pits that brought out silver, he was involved in the success of these pits via the tunnel ninth and received 1309 kg of silver here until 1800. Important mines here were Fresh Luck , New Year , New Year Mass , Roman Eagle and God's Blessing . The importance of the tunnel is also evident in its takeover by the state, as the Electoral Saxon or Royal tunnel in the period from 1799 to 1881, but not in its full extent. The total length of the tunnel was over 6 km in 1840. The southernmost point was the Christianusschacht (later Schacht 51 of Wismut AG) in the Lehmergrund and the westernmost point is in the area of the Pferdegöpels. The Christianus shaft mentioned here is not identical to this Christianus shaft. In 1841, as part of the first civil engineering project, Vereinigt Feld started to work on the tunnel. The mouth hole, which could hardly be moved, was thrown off and a new mouth hole was opened 16 m south of it for the tunnel. In the next few years, the waterway was restored in the tunnel, extensive walls were built and the tunnel was driven forward. After the civil engineering company failed, operations were stopped in 1868. In 1881 the union United Field in Fastenberg took over the tunnel from the Saxon state treasury. In the following years up to 1945 the technical facilities were improved and modernized in the St.-Georg-Stollnsohle at the Frischglücker Kunst- und Treibeschacht, mostly with regard to the importance of the water uplift and water use. The swamping of civil engineering, which began in 1892, was abandoned again in 1896. In 1902 civil engineering began again. The 78 Lachter route was not reached until 1912. In 1921 the swamp continued and the 95-Lachter route reached. Due to a storm on July 6, 1931, parts of the Johanngeorgenstadt mine were flooded. Huthaus and Stolln suffered considerable damage, so that the Huthaus had to be demolished. The swamp started in 1934 reached the 95-Lachter route in 1935.
With the acquisition of mining concessions by the object 01 of the bismuth AG in 1946, the important in recent decades, only for the drainage adit was as shaft 22 reconstructed, provided with rails and expanded for promotion. The depth of the tunnel at the Frisch Glück shaft was 25 m. After this depth, the entire level driven by the bismuth was referred to as the 25 m level. It connected the approximately equal bed levels of the old mine and was driven over a large area with field stretches and crosscuts. It was the largest floor of the Johanngeorgenstadt mining industry. Its dimensions reach 3 × 3 km. Operations in shaft management 22 were discontinued on August 1, 1952. After mining ceased, the St. Georg gallery lost its importance as a drainage gallery. After the mine field was flooded on September 24, 1958, the mine water looked for a new path in the built-up mountains and flowed uncontrollably over the Glück-Auf-Stolln down the valley . He kept his function in the mine field itself.
In the 1950s, Wismut AG removed the mouth hole and filled the rose. In 2003 the tunnel was closed with a concrete dam.
In 2005, an attentive resident in Jugelbach found the keystone of the former Stollnmundloch and handed it over to the “Horse Göpel Association”.
Although "Sanct Georgens Zechenhaus" was outside of Johanngeorgenstadt, the building was counted as No. 12 in the city and its residents had to pay personal tax there. The colliery house, for example, was inhabited by Johann Gottfried Hähnel's widow in 1800, who earned her living by making lace and had to pay two guilders a year into the city's treasury.
South-east of the St. Georg tunnel in the direction of the Wittigsthal hammer mill was the unprofitable Chursachsen treasure trove with a tunnel, the location of which was still recognizable until after the Second World War.
literature
- Otfried Wagenbreth et al .: Mining in the Ore Mountains. Technical monuments and history . Ed .: Otfried Wagenbreth, Eberhard Wächtler . 1st edition. German publishing house for basic industry, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-342-00509-2 , p. 293 .
- Frank Teller : Mining and mining town Johanngeorgenstadt . Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt eV, Johanngeorgenstadt 2001.
- Frank Teller: change, change, change . Förderverein Pferdegöpel Johanngeorgenstadt eV, Johanngeorgenstadt 2009.
Coordinates: 50 ° 26 ′ 8.6 ″ N , 12 ° 43 ′ 41 ″ E