Stamp point 175 / Glasebach show mine

The mine is located about 800 m from Straßberg in the Glasebach valley.

The Strass­berg Min­ing Muse­um con­tains two areas that are divid­ed over time. The first is the sur­face mine, which depicts mod­ern min­ing from the post-war peri­od up to 1992.
The sec­ond is the Glase­bach under­ground mine, which illus­trates his­tor­i­cal min­ing from the 18th century. 

The Glase­bach­schacht was built on the Straßberg — Neu­dor­fer Gangzug. This starts about 3.5 km west of Straßberg and extends over a dis­tance of 15 km to Königerode. The aver­age dip to the north is 45 — 60 degrees. The main min­er­al­iza­tion con­sists of flu­o­rite — quartz — calcite. 

The vis­i­tor tour begins in the above-ground wheel room with the recon­struct­ed arti­fi­cial wheel (diam­e­ter 9.5 meters), 21 meters below the head­frame and leads over the tun­nel floor. The first and sec­ond lev­els can be accessed via a stair­case built into the main shaft. Of par­tic­u­lar impor­tance are the still exist­ing orig­i­nal parts of the “Straßberg­er Schwingkun­st” (water lift­ing tech­nol­o­gy), the oak pan­elling of the gal­leries, the evi­dence of old min­ing tech­nol­o­gy, artis­tic dry stone walls and the rich and colour­ful min­er­al­iza­tion of the mine. The tour lasts approx. 80 min­utes and cov­ers a depth of 40 meters. 

The stamp site is locat­ed at the old Glase­bach gallery, not far from the his­toric lime kiln. This kiln was built right next to a lime­stone quar­ry. The lime­stone was placed in the kiln in the form of a vault that com­plete­ly filled the kiln. The kiln was often cov­ered with clay at the end. A wood fire was set from below, which was main­tained until all the lime­stone had been burnt through. The lime burnt here was used for smelt­ing the iron ore extract­ed from the mines, for the farm­ers’ own needs and for domes­tic use. Dur­ing the restora­tion work, a brick lin­ing was also found at the mouth of a water solu­tion tun­nel in the region. The lime kiln ceased to oper­ate around 100 years ago. 

The show mine is very well sign­post­ed in Straßberg. From the park­ing lot, you pass the Rad­stube to the stamp­ing sta­tion at the “Alter Glase­bach­er Stollen”