Stamping point 194 / Hellergrund

The Hellergrund stamping station is located below the Birnbaumteich pond between Neudorf and the Glasebach mine.

The Heller water­works, which con­sist­ed of 3 wheel cham­bers, sev­er­al arti­fi­cial ditch­es and a small arti­fi­cial pond, used to be locat­ed at this site. The water wheels trans­mit­ted the pow­er to the pump­ing sta­tions of the Birn­baum shafts with rods up to 1 km long. 

The light shafts in Hel­ler­grund and Birn­baum­grund were the ven­ti­la­tion shafts of the “deep tun­nel” through which the water was drained. The Birn­baum shafts were put into oper­a­tion in 1536 and only closed in 1860. 

The Birn­baumte­ich, which was cre­at­ed in the 17th cen­tu­ry to sup­ply water, is a pop­u­lar bathing lake and has been giv­en a rea­son­able infra­struc­ture by the oper­a­tor of the vaca­tion park. A camp­site with a mod­ern vaca­tion home com­plex and a restau­rant make the Birn­baumte­ich an attrac­tive excur­sion and vaca­tion destination. 

The Hel­ler­grund stamp­ing sta­tion can be reached from the Birn­baumte­ich pond or via the cir­cu­lar min­ing trail already described at the steel spring HWN 193, which starts in Neu­dorf and leads to the Glase­bach mine via sev­er­al stations.