Show mine and mining museum with guided tours through historic old mining in the Lower Harz
Bergwerksmuseum Grube Glasebach (AFG Harz mbH)
Harzgerode OT Straßberg · Blankenburg (Harz)New on Amplifa
About the Mining Museum
The Grube Glasebach mine in Harzgerode OT Straßberg is a mining museum and show mine that has been operated by AFG Harz mbH since June 1995. Visitors can explore two originally preserved levels from the 17th and 18th centuries on expertly guided underground tours. The tours start at the museum, lead to the above-ground wheel house with a 9.50-metre water wheel and then continue underground to timbering and extraction techniques in oak wood from the 18th century as well as to the inclined shaft with historic water-lifting technology between the 1st and 2nd levels. The site includes an outdoor museum with original working tools, an exhibition on the history of the mine as well as mineral exhibitions. The museum documents the vein deposit mining on the Straßberg-Neudorf vein system, on which fluorite and other ores were historically mined. Group tours for 15 or more people are available outside opening hours by prior appointment.
- Site
- Harzgerode OT Straßberg
- Processes
- Underground tours, Exhibition, Outdoor museum, Group tours for 15 or more people, Appointment enquiries
- Materials
- Fluorite (fluorspar), Quartz, Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Arsenopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite, Wolframite
- Founded
- 1995
- Industries
- Tourism, Museum/cultural operation
- 01
Museum and information point
- 02
Tour to the wheel house with water wheel
- 03
Underground tour (1st and 2nd level)
- 04
Exhibition and outdoor museum
Locations
Grube Glasebach, Harzgerode OT Straßberg
DEMining museum / show mine
- Materials
- Fluorite, quartz, calcite and other ore minerals
- Water wheel (9.50 m)
- Headframe (12 m, steel, 1976)
- Historic pumping system in the inclined shaft
- 2 whim chambers
Blankenburg (Harz)
DEOperating company AFG Harz mbH
Sights
Inside the production
Industries
4 Anlagen & Maschinen
| Machine | Manufacturer / model | Quantity | Working area | Year built | Site |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Water wheel (water wheel/wheel art) | – | – | 9.50 m in size | – | Wheel house, Grube Glasebach, Harzgerode OT Straßberg |
| Headframe (steel) | Staßfurter Kalikombinat (plans) | – | 12 m high | 1976 | Above-ground area of Grube Glasebach |
| Pumping system (historic water-lifting technology) | – | – | – | – | Inclined shaft between the 1st and 2nd level, Grube Glasebach |
| Whim chamber | – | 2 | – | – | Grube Glasebach |
Additional services
History
- 1400
Mining in the Straßberg area dates back to around 1400; extraction of fluorspar and silver at Heidelberg.
- 1689
First documented mention of the Grube Glasebach mine as Seidenglanz.
- 1701
New mine claim under the direction of Georg Christoph von Utterodt as Vertrau auf Gott.
- 1729
Renewed mine claim by four Straßberg miners; operation as Glasebach.
- 1736
Closure of the mine.
- 1752
Resumption of mining by the Straßberger Gewerkschaft association.
- 1949
The shaft is opened by VEB Schachtbau Nordhausen and sunk to below the fifth level.
- 1976
Construction of a twelve-metre-high steel headframe according to plans by the Staßfurt potash combine.
- 1982
Cessation of fluorspar mining; the mine remains open as a ventilation and material shaft.
- 1990
Last shaft descent on 5 January.
- 1995
Opening of the Grube Glasebach mine as a mining museum in June.