Schwartenberg

Overlooking the Schwartenberg

The Schwartenberg is one of the highest mountains in the Eastern Ore Mountains. The nature of the Erzgebirge / Vogtland belonging mountain is located east of Olbernhau between the municipalities of Neuhausen and Seiffen.

Geology

The Schwartenberg is as the adjacent Maple Mountain ( 833 m) a detached from the vertical erosion, ridged and decreased rest of the plateau of the Erzgebirgskammes. It consists mainly of gray gneiss, which is present on the top of fine-grained, dense and with a small proportion of feldspar. This causes the comparatively severity with which resisted the summit of erosion. In particular, as seen from the Flöhatal from dominating the free-standing Schwartenberg the landscape, although it is not the highest peak in the vicinity of Neuhausen, Seiffen.

Name

The mountain appears densely forested on the custom built by Matthias Oeder during the first Saxon State Survey 1605 map of Schwartenberg area, but bears no name yet. On the 1786 miles sheet compiled in the course of the topographic land survey under Friedrich Ludwig switch the name " rinds Mountain" is already registered.

For the origin of the present name, there are several explanations:

• Derivation from a formerly operated here mine, which as a treasure trove, was named 1737 Schwardte
• Dissipation from Timber obtained here, which is referred to as the focal rinds,
• Derivation of the hard and wooded bedrock (according to the rind, also known as scalp).

1779 Emperor Joseph II ascended the then treeless rocky knoll during a trip through the neighboring Bohemia. In memory of the ascent of the Schwartenberg was designated in contemporary sources as emperor stone.

Bergbaude

Due to the wide panoramic view in 1893 the first plans to build a mountain cottage came on at the summit of the mountain rind. After the First World War, the Erzgebirgsverein acquired a corresponding 4,960 m² lot at the price of 868, - Mark. However, the implementation of the plans were delayed because of the inflation of the postwar period. The insistence of the Branch Association Eastern Ore Mountains, it was thanks to them that the main club in 1925 decided to build a summit house. More land was purchased, a dowser established the location of the well and the municipality Neuhausen let up in July 1926 to build a road to the summit. About a loan of 40,000, - Mark could be built up to the autumn of 1926 the shell. On 30 and 31 July 1927, the consecration of the accommodation house was made ​​on the Schwartenberg. For decades, cherished wishes and aspirations of the branch associations in the eastern Ore Mountains went so true. The pastor and local historian Friedrich Hermann extinguisher from Zwoenitz held the consecration of the speech today used as a mountain restaurant building.

Mining

On the western slope of the mountain rind a trending from north-northeast to south -southwest course of gritty - blendigen Bleierzformation formed the basis for a mining, which can be traced back to the 18th century, but reached a total of only modest proportions. The mining industry was about to chalcopyrite, silver, tin ore and Eisenrahm. The oldest reference to mining attempts are a treasure trove called 1737, which Schwardte was called. The mining is even older origin, it is likely, but not verifiable. The unproductive degradation was still set back in the 18th century. Leopold von Buch, who ascended the Schwartenberg 1792, reported: Located just west of the crest of one has made ​​formerly with Absinkung a shaft a try on a quartz vein, which is afterwards went to rupture; and in which one can go through a column frey now.

In November 1871, the addition of new exploration and mining through the Erzgebirge silver and tin mining company Saxonia, together with Dawn treasure trove to Seiffen and German - Catharinenberg was. The company built on the Schwartenberg a Huthaus and gewältigte with the Kaiser Wilhelm Schacht a 46 m deep shaft reel (profile 2x1 m). The extension of the profile associated with the expansion as travel, art and redrive shaft had to be discontinued due to lack of funds in 1874. Overall, the financial backers of the company invested in the Kaiser- Wilhelm- shaft and the dawn treasure trove at German Mount St. Catherine 1871-1874 about 16.000, - dollars and 1875-1881 again about 71,000, - Mark Zubuße without achieving a reduction gain. The failure led to the final cessation of mining on Schwartenberg, but of which still bear witness to stockpile remains today.

View

Because of the free-standing and central location of Schwartenberg grants from its summit a wide and panoramic views. Already a geologist Leopold von Buch wrote in 1792: The view from this mountain is fully in the expectation that one makes of it. The whole area is a paradise spread to the feet .... In good conditions, the view towards

• North: Neuhausen / Erzgeb. with lock Purschenstein and Sidon to Augustus castle, the castle and the stone woman Halsbrücker Esse at Freiberg,
• Northeast: at Neuhausen passing over the dam Rauschenbach and Cämmerswalde,
• South: the wooded areas of the Erzgebirgskammes skala to the Medvědí.
• Southwest: over the Fichtelbergbahn and Klínovec (Wedge Mountain ) to the Auer Mountain, in the valley of Seiffen.

At the summit, informed a copper plate on the visible points and their distances.

View to the Northeast with Neuhausen and the dam Rauschenbach

Looking north to Neuhausen

View to the Southeast to Seiffen

Routes to the summit

About the Schwartenberg leads the blue marked national long distance footpath Zittau - Wernigerode, in this section section of European long-distance hiking trail E3.