Ore Mountain Mining Region

The mining region Erzgebirge is resulting in more than 800 years of industrial cultural landscape in the border region between Saxony and North Bohemia. It is characterized by a large number of historically largely original technical preserved monuments, and numerous standing with the Mont property using individual monuments and collections of objects. The identity and authenticity of the montane landscape of the Ore Mountains on both sides of the German -Czech border will be unprecedented world of the initiators opinion. There are efforts to obtain the UNESCO World Heritage title.

History

Since the first discovery of silver ore in 1168 in Christian village in the city area of ​​today Freiberg, which is attributed to the Freiberg mining district was driven continuously in the Erzgebirge mining until 1990. The raw materials were mined over the centuries, among others Silver, tin, zinc, cobalt, nickel, copper and lead, as well as coal and uranium have been obtained up to the 20th century and were engines for economic development in Saxony. Today presence of indium, tin, tungsten, lithium, and are examined for their mineability.

Project progress

The project is scientifically prepared by the project team Ore mining region of the TU Freiberg under the direction of Helmuth Albrecht. In joint work groups, a implementation study will be developed with each participating city or municipality. In this method, proposed in the feasibility study objects are checked and coordinated with the respective municipality. The study includes a description of the nominated goods and the existing protection ( preservation, conservation, collection of urban land ). In addition, as part of the study, all schedules are determined at and in the immediate vicinity of the nominated asset. Thus, the demand of the government of the Free State of Saxony is complied with, to bring the project mining region Erzgebirge and the economic development of the region into line.

Since July 2010 Objective 3 is supported by the EU funding the project " Central European cultural landscape mining region Erzgebirge / Krusnohori - way to the UNESCO World Heritage " under the guidance of the district Usti and the partners Regional Museum must, patrons mining region Erzgebirge eV and the TU Mining Academy Freiberg performed. Here, the Saxon method of implementation studies is also applied on the Czech side of the Ore Mountains. In addition to a cross-border database will be developed from the existing database for Monte montane historical monuments in the mining region Erzgebirge. In 2009, the Ústí nad Labem and Karlovy Vary have brought about parliamentary decisions to participate in the project mining region Erzgebirge. In September 2010, the Regional Management Ore was commissioned by the district councils and mayors of the region with project control. On 27 June 2011 the first World Heritage Conference Erzgebirge took place in Marienberg. It took over 31 municipalities and 2 counties ( Erzgebirge District and Central Saxony ) the ownership of the application. On 17 August 2011, the members of the World Heritage Convent of the mining region came together for the inaugural meeting. Since January 2012, 33 cities and municipalities and the counties of Central Saxony, Erzgebirge District and Saxon Switzerland & Eastern Ore Mountains are involved.

In July 2011 it was announced that the Saxon government makes the pending official invitation from the Czech partners to participate in the project of a report on the status of the project by the Saxon Ministry of the Interior dependent. This is to be completed in late 2011. In a joint application Czech Republic would have one year before submission, February 2012, set the Erzgebirge mining region on its Tentative List. Accordingly, the invitation to participate in a project of Saxony would come too late. In July 2011, the Member of Parliament Tino Günther (FDP ) and Alexander Krauss (CDU ) published a press release to make the proposal introduces the Erzgebirge as Intangible Heritage of Humanity under protection. On the other hand, initiated the Alliance 90/The Greens Saxony in August 2011, a petition for enforcement of the project industrial cultural landscape Ore mining region. The petition is addressed to the Saxony state parliament, to act for the cross-border project as a material UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Project Content

44 selected sites in the Saxon and 9 in the Czech part of the Erzgebirge represent the industrial cultural landscape Ore mining region. The objects are stored in different ways with the centuries-old industrial history of the Erzgebirge in conjunction.

Object list Saxony

Historical mining area Altenberg

  • Mining landscape Altenberg
  • Mining landscape Cínovec
  • Castle and town church Lauenstein
  • Monuments of the watch industry Glashütte
  • High medieval silver mines Dippoldiswalde

Historical mining district Freiberg

  • Mining landscape fire -Erbisdorf
  • Monuments of the old town of Freiberg with montane historical reference
  • Mining Landscape Ascension treasure trove
  • Mining Landscape train
  • Hut complex Muldenhütten
  • Hut complex Halsbrücke with Erzkanal and pits in the Freiberg North area
  • Mining Landscape with Monastery Gersdorf Altzella
  • Rothschönberger Stolln
  • Area watercourse institution
  • Hunting lodge Augustus Burg

Historical mining area Marienberg

  • Kalkwerk Lengefeld
  • Historic old town of Marienberg
  • Mining landscape at Lauta
  • Green trench Pobershau
  • Saigerhüttenkomplex Grünthal
  • Toy village Seiffen

Historical mining area of Annaberg

  • Monuments of the old town Annaberg with montane historical reference
  • Mining landscape Frohnau
  • Mining Landscape Buchholz
  • Mining Landscape Pöhlberg
  • Mining Landscape Ehrenfriedersdorf
  • Ironworks Schmalzgrube

Historical mining area Schneeberg

  • Auernhammer and white earth mine
  • Schneeberger Floßgraben
  • Mining Landscape Bad Schlema
  • Historic old town of Schneeberg
  • Weisser Hirsch mine
  • Mining landscape Schneeberg
  • Blue colors work Schindler's Factory

Historical mining area Schwarzenberg

  • Mining Landscape Eibenstock
  • Ironworks
  • Schwarzenberg Palace / Erzgeb.
  • Geotop Scheibenbergstraße
  • Paper mill Niederzwönitz

Mining uranium mining area

  • Mining Landscape uranium mining
  • Bismuth headquarters Chemnitz

Mining area coal mining

  • Karl- Liebknecht- bay Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.
  • Mining Landscape Oelsnitz / Erzgeb.

Object List Bohemia

On the Czech side of the Ore 17 objects have been selected to represent the facets of the mining region Erzgebirge. They supplement the Saxon object selection.

  • Spot conservation area Jáchymovská ( at Jáchymov )
  • Spot conservation area Hornoblatenská ( in Horni Blatna )
  • Spot conservation area Božídarská ( at Bozi Dar )
  • Spot conservation area Krupská ( at Krupka )
  • Spot conservation area Svatokateřinská ( at Hora Svaté Kateřiny )
  • Spot conservation area Měděnecka ( at Měděnec )
Freiberg Mining Field Schneeberg, Saxony Olbernhau Annaberg-Buchholz Naturschutzgebiet Most Erzgebirgskreis Altenberg, Saxony Brand-Erbisdorf Augustusburg Hunting Lodge Lauta (Marienberg) Frohnau (Annaberg-Buchholz) Schwarzenberg, Saxony Geotope Scheibenberg (Ore Mountains) Freie Presse (Saxony)
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