Dognecea
Dognecea ( Dognatschka German, Hungarian Dognácska ) is a municipality in the district of Caras -Severin, Banat, Romania. The municipality includes the village Dognecea Calina.
Neighboring towns
History
At the northwestern edge of the Banat Mountains, the mountain range is Dognecea ( Munţii Dognecei ). Here the early 18th century was a copper mine, which resulted in the foundation of the village Dognatschka by itself. Since ancient times, the Romans built here from gold, silver, copper and iron ore. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the Turks encouraged precious metals here. After the expulsion of the Turks in 1716, the Habsburgs began with the establishment of a modern mining and metallurgical plants. 1722 was a lead mine, which was however already given up in 1727 because of high production costs. At the same time, copper was produced in the smelting works.
Through the acquisition of Tyrolean miners emerged in 1727 a residential colony, the mining community Dognatschka. 1728 were added other Austrian mining and metallurgy workers and 1730-1731 again Tyrolean miners. In addition to the Germans Bufänen ( Wallachian refugees from Oltenia ) were settled, who worked primarily as Köhler. 1723 there was a mountain in Dognatschka Office and in 1727 a mountain court. In the same year the town received market rights and in 1730 it became a town in 1793 and was officially changed to the " Free mountain town Dognatschka ".
From 1740, as in Dognatschka the copper mine " Simon & Jude " was opened, they came across large copper ore. Late 18th and early 19th century, large quantities of silver have been promoted and in 1818 operated a gold rush. After 1851, the mountain and iron and steel works of the Banat Mountains Lands have been nationalized, sold the Vienna Hofkammer their mining property from the Banat to the year before, founded Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State railway Company, ( StEG ). thus were also located in and around Dognatschka copper, lead, zinc and silver mines and smelters, as well as sells the Dognatschkaer ironworks.
After the construction of the railway line Reschitz - Eisenstein (1873 ) was given the Dognatschkaer ironworks and laid the processing of iron ore after Reschitz. As 1919 was held the tripartite division of the Banat as a result of the Trianon Treaty, two thirds of Romania. Since then Dognatschka bears the official name Dognecea.
Church and School
1741 the construction of the Catholic church was completed and founded the Catholic parish. The Orthodox parish was founded in 1795. 1741 German -speaking mountain school was established in Dognatschka. At the same time in the same year there was also an orthodox "national school" for the children of Bufänen.
Gallery
Rare ores from the mining area Dognecea exhibited in the Museum of aesthetic mineralogy of iron in Ocna de Fier (Iron Stone ):
Hemimorphites
Pyromorphite