A Saturday full of
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The Frohnauer
Hammer is a blacksmith’s workshop, featuring three water-driven hammers, as well as water-driven ventilation
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A Heimatberg
is a woodcarved mechanical
scenery including mines and peripheral industries. They can be found in many
places, and are just marvelous to look at. |
Gramma
and the Eisbein. |
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The Markus-Roehling Stollen is a visitor mine, which opened only in 1997. Volunteers
cleared it of mining debris accumulated by the Wismut’s
search for Uranium (not found in this location), and re-installed the Grubenbahn, various water-driven pumps, and lots of
mining technology from a multitude of eras. The tour takes about one hour,
but I have taken no pictures underground. The first mining activity was
during the Berggeschrey in the beginning of the 15th
century, when silver was found in the region. Later, other metals, such as
Cobalt, Nickel and Copper were won in this place. There isn’t a mountain in
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Just to complete the day, we visit the Greifensteine, and the |
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…and no, that’s not him |
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