Watercourse (mining)
In the Upper Harz mining industry, a watercourse is understood to be a water transfer tunnel created to supply the mines with power water. A watercourse is characterized by its two mouth holes (inlet and outlet mouth hole ), while a tunnel has only one mouth hole. In the area of the Oberharzer Wasserregal there are over 35 watercourses with a total length of around 30 km.
Outside of the Upper Harz the watercourses are called Röschen .
literature
- Martin Schmidt: The cultural monument of the Upper Harz water shelf . Self-published Harzwasserwerke GmbH, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2005 ( PDF, 888 kB ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).
- Martin Schmidt : The water management of the Upper Harz mining industry . 3. Edition. Self-published Harzwasserwerke GmbH, Hildesheim 2002, ISBN 3-00-009609-4 (series of publications by the Frontinus Society, issue 13).
- Walter Knissel , Gerhard Fleisch: “Oberharzer Wasserregal” cultural monument - an epoch-making achievement . Papierflieger Verlag, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2004, ISBN 3-89720-725-7 .