Bergmagazin

The Mount Magazine was a building that served as a granary for miners and residents of mining towns.

Story ( Sachsen)

The construction of mountain magazines in the Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony was reinforced in 1806 at the suggestion of the chief mining 's Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich von Trebra. Given the great famines that piled up in the Upper Erzgebirge at the end of the 18th century due to several bad harvests, Trebra recommended the construction of multi-storey, stone magazine buildings where deposited grain after harvest and could be stored for several months or even years.

Locations (selection)

• Marienberg: built 1806-1809, from 1858 multiple uses including as military chamber, factory, school glider pilots and fruit bearing, after rebuilding and reconstruction since 2006, used as a museum
• Annaberg
• Schneeberg
• , Used 1784-1805 renovation of Schloss Freudenstein to Mount Magazine to 1979 as a granary: Freiberg
• Johann George Town: built 1806-1812, and 1847 used as a granary, rebuilt after a fire in 1899 to the house, demolished in autumn 2005
• Osterode am Harz: Built 1719-1722 as a grain magazine, since 1989 seat of the Municipality