Uhlenbachtal (Lower Harz)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Uhlenbachtal is the valley in the Lower Harz through which the Uhlenbach flows . It belongs to the former Straßberg mining area .

description

After the end of silver mining, fluorspar was mined in the surrounding mountains from 1810 to 1990 . Afterwards, several tunnels were driven from the Uhlenbach near Siptenfelde to dissolve water, the Brachmannsberger tunnels (3.2 km north to the Brachmannsberger Gang) and the Biwender tunnels (1.8 km west to the Flourschacht). For the necessary water purification (primarily of dissolved iron oxide), a mine water purification system was built in 2008 as a replacement for a temporary purification system for nine million euros, which was inaugurated on May 15, 2009 after a successful trial run. In the course of this, several other environmental measures were implemented. A fish ladder was built from the Selke to the Uhlenbach and a step was converted into a sole slide. In the valley, the naturally predominant alders and ash trees were replanted, which had been displaced over the past centuries in favor of the fast-growing spruce trees required for mining . In addition, a mountain meadow was maintained in a biotope-related manner. The plant building, which is clad in wood in a typical landscape style, was provided with breeding grounds for bats .

natural reserve

The Selketal nature reserve also includes parts of the Uhlenbachtal below the B 242 including the Uhlenköpfe on the left slope .

The Uhlenbachtal is protected as an FFH habitat up to about 100 meters south of the Forsthaus Uhlenstein . The FFH area overlaps with the NSG south of the Harzhochstraße (B 242). North of the Harzhochstrasse, the FFH area also includes the lower reaches of several streams flowing into the Uhlenbach.

excavation

Site plan of the excavation

Above the now desolate first village of Siptenfelde, only a little away from today's forester's house Uhlenstein , are the remains of an old castle on the gently sloping right-hand mountain slope of the Uhlenbachtal with the name of Mönchehof . The Uhlenbach flows north of it. Little more has been preserved than the foundation walls . The walls were discovered in 1888. The tenant at the time had applied for permission to remove the foundation walls of a former building in order to clean the property of stones and improve it by fertilizing it with the lime mortar that was no longer needed . During the subsequent inspection and superficial examination, it was immediately determined that it was more than a building and excavations were ordered. The buildings were identified as the remains of an old castle, but could not be dated during the excavation. The field designation at the Mönchehof , which is still valid today, made a later conversion of the castle into a monastery probable for those involved at the time .

It is now assumed that it is an estate that was first mentioned in a document in 1158 as predium Haskenroth and subsequently in 1170 as Esekenrot . The manor ( Grangie ) belonged to the Cistercian monastery Marienthal .

In October 2014, excavations were carried out again under the supervision of the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and Archeology in Halle in order to be able to determine the dimensions of the complex more precisely.

swell

  • The influence of mining history in the Eastern Harz on the heavy metal depth gradients in historical sediments and the fluvial heavy metal dispersion in the catchment areas of Bode and Selke in the Harz Mountains , Lorenz Dobler, dissertation at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg ( online version )
  • Regionalverband Harz eV, leaflet From the Palatinate Bodfeld to Erichsburg ( PDF online ( Memento from April 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ))
  • Negotiations of the Botanical Association for the Province of Brandenburg (1906), Botanical Association of the Province of Brandenburg ( online )
  • Saxony-Anhalt-Viewer: TK 1:10 000 color, fauna-flora-habitat area
  • Wilfried Ließmann: Historical mining in the Harz . 3. Edition. Springer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 978-3-540-31327-4 .
  • Maik Hauf: The "Münchehöfe" near Siptenfelde, district of Harz - old and new research. In: Archeology in Saxony-Anhalt, volume. 9/2018, pp. 247-259, ISBN 978-3-944507-84-2

Individual evidence

  1. ^ F. Maurer: excavations at the Mönchehof near Siptenfelde in the Harz Mountains . In: Ministry of Public Works (Hrsg.): Centralblatt der Bauverwaltung. XII. Vintage. No. 3 . Published by Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1892, p. 14–15 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  2. ↑ Maik Hauf: The "Münchehöfe" at Siptenfelde In: afng.de , accessed on August 8, 2018.