Steinheidel

Steinheidel Municipality of Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. Coordinates: 50 ° 28 ′ 49 ″  N , 12 ° 43 ′ 20 ″  E
Residents :	171  (May 9, 2011)

Steinheidel is a part of the municipality of Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis .

location

Stone Heidel located on the slope of the 713 m high, steep in the Schwarzwassertal sloping Brandberg , west of today no longer passable by motor vehicles old post road over Jägerhaus after Schneeberg .

history

The beginnings of Steinheidel, formerly just called Steinheide, go back to mining in the 16th century. This field name was first mentioned in 1534.

In the Schwarzwassertal near Steinheidel, two charcoal burners were still in operation at the beginning of the 19th century and the “Rother und White Lion” colliery with hat and bar on the slope . The latter later became the inn Steinheidel, known as Staahaadler Aff (named after a mandolin orchestrion with a monkey). The mine was run on tin and iron , but left behind. In 1796 the Schönheider and Wolfsgrüner Hammerherr Rauh started operations again. By December 30, 1802, the tunnel had already been driven ¼ of an hour when, despite all caution, water breached old buildings and killed two workers; their bodies were only found in April 1803 and ceremonially transferred to Breitenbrunn. A still greater misfortune was prevented only by a happy accident; A visit to the tunnel that was scheduled at that time had been delayed because the participating mountain official did not have a horse and therefore set off on foot from Johanngeorgenstadt . The climber managed to save himself from a water screen. Those waiting were witnesses of the flood at the tunnel mouth hole , which tore away the expansion and caused the tunnel to collapse. The examination of the old mine workings that had been approached showed that they were evidently abandoned in a hurry - in addition to the remains of an art , there were plenty of toughness and a pile of wood prepared for setting fire.

After acquiring the Wolfsgrün hammer mill, the Saxon king bought the tunnel from the over-indebted hammer master Karl Gottlob Rauh in 1811 and added it to the Johanngeorgenstädter Revierstölln. The aim of the takeover was to accelerate the approach of Michaelis and Johannes Scharkreuz to the deep solution of the iron stone pits Michaelis and Johannes am Fällbach . Driving the road turned out to be more difficult and significantly more expensive than expected due to the dissolved granite and lack of weather . Frequent breaks prevented rapid advance. Another serious accident occurred on December 23, 1833, when, while working through a small fracture in the tunnel, dissolved masses pressed in and two miners buried themselves. One of the two fatally injured was the miners' elder of the Schwarzenberg district, Obersteiger Ullmann. A little later, the operational objective was modified by the creation of a cross passage that was to lead to the Elterlein shaft. After the owner of Michaelis Fundgrube, Hans Heinrich von Elterlein, was no longer able to contribute the fourth pfennig to the operation of the mine due to economic difficulties and finally abandoned his mine, there was no longer any requirement for the mine to continue operating. The construction detention, ie the maintenance of the tunnel, was finally given up due to difficulties in overcoming a large fracture and the royal tunnel was canceled in 1840.

The Eigenlehnerzeche Gnade Gottes treasure trove used to be located near this tunnel .

Steinheidel was mostly grown on mountain freedom and therefore belonged to the Schwarzenberg Mining Authority, later to the unified Johanngeorgenstadt Mining Authority , with the exception of two forest houses in the valley and a hunter’s house, which were under the Schwarzenberg district authority . Around 1900 tourism developed in Steinheidel. The community comprised the districts Steinheidel, Fällbach, Erlabrunn and Georgenthal.

After the construction of the Wismut miners' hospital in Erlabrunn in 1950/51, the double place name Steinheidel-Erlabrunn was introduced, which was shortened on July 15, 1967 in Erlabrunn .

literature

• About Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 20). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973, pp. 150–151.

Web links

• Steinheidel in the Digital Historical Directory of Saxony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Small-scale municipality sheet for Breitenbrunn / Erzgeb. (PDF; 0.23 MB) State Statistical Office of the Free State of Saxony , September 2014, accessed on January 27, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Calendar for the Saxon miner and smelter