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Technisches Denkmal Historischer Schieferbergbau Lehesten
Historical Slate Mines Lehesten
Useful Information
History
Geology
Description
The Technisches Denkmal Historischer Schieferbergbau Lehesten, literally
technical memorials historical slate mining Lehesten, is a huge open air museum
explaining the slate mining tradition around the village Lehesten.
It includes the abandoned open cast slate quarry, and the last remaining
Göpelschachtanlage (whim head frame) in Germany which sits on a 70m
deep mine shaft.
The Spalthütte is the shed where the mined slate blocks were
splitted and cut to form tiles.
It contains all necessary machinery and tools needed for the work, the mning
equippment, typical raw blocks and examples for the produced tiles, gravestones
and other products.
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