Knochen (hill)

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The bone between Raschau marker Bach and Black Mountain is a 551.4 meters above sea level. NN. high Härtling in the Saxon Erzgebirge.

Description

The hill rises about 100 meters above the soles of the northerly trending Schwarzbach valley and the base of the Mittweida in the south and is crossed by several veins and bearings. In this non-ferrous metal skarns formed in part as a gravel stock and lead pyrite, as well as courses of a bismuth - cobalt-nickel- silver - formation occur.

In the 17th century the bone was ridden in numerous pits. Among the most important mines counted alongside God's blessing, St. Paul and the Three Brothers All Saints treasure trove, in the 1713 silver, bismuth and Cobalt ores were promoted. In addition to the mine in the mid-18th century was one of vitriol and sulfur hut that in five furnaces also won arsenic since 1818, which was sold to Farbenfabriken in Hamburg, France and Austria. After the 1871 Allerheiligenhütte had meanwhile ceased operations in Raschau because of state competition from Freiberg, it was set by Beier field from 1876 again in motion.