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Besucherbergwerk Marie Louise Stolln

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Location:	Berggießhübel
Open:	All year Wed-Sun, Hol 10-18. School holidays: daily 10-18. Closed 24-DEC, 25-DEC, 26-DEC, 31-DEC, 01-JAN. [2011]
Fee:	Adults EUR 5, Children (6-16) EUR 3, Children (0-5) notallowed. Groups (15+): Adults EUR 4, School Children EUR 3. Speleotherapy: 10 visits including medical advice EUR 450, tryout EUR 10. [2011]
Classification:	Iron Mine
Light:	electric
Dimension:	T=8-10°C, H=80%.
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Address:	Kurgesellschaft Bad Gottleuba-Berggießhübel mbH, Besucherbergwerk "Marie Louise Stolln", Siedlung 1, 01819 Kurort Berggießhübel, Tel: +49-35023-52980, Fax: +49-35023-52981. E-mail:
Last update:	$Date: 2011/12/13 08:48:06 $


1230		area settled by German miners, start of iron mining and processing.
1300		village Gottleuba founded as a miners town.
1404		area conquered by the Wettin family.
19-MAY-1418		first written mention of mining at the Gottleuba river.
1447		first written mention of ores near Berggießhübel, old name was Gißhobel.
1459		border quarrels settled by Kurfürst Friedrich II in the Vertrag von Eger (treaty of Eger).
1466		indepenent Bergamt (board of mines) with Bergmeister (head of mines).
1590		the chronist Petrus Albinus praises the quality of the iron and introduces the term Pirnisch Eisen.
1618		mining ended by the 30 Years War.
1717		first mineral spring Johann-Georg-Brunnen discovered.
1726		Friedrich Erbstolln (Marie Louise Stolln) started.
1731		tax on wood, which is necessary to process the iron ore, increases the cost and makes mining unprofitable.
1813		marauding troops destroy mines and furnaces, end of mining.
1819		mining revived by Detlev Graf von Einsiedel.
1876-1878		europaweite Stahlüberproduktionskrise bringt den Bergbau zum Erligen.
1892		ores mined out, mines closed.
1964		increasing number of collapses of old mine tunnels.
1970		mines safeguarded by the Bergsicherung Dresden.
2003		start of the development of the show mine.
2006		show mine opened to the public.

Located in the town with the strange name Berggießhübel, the Marie Louise Stolln is today used as a show mine and for speleotherapy.