Grube Gotthold

Coordinates: 51°30′14.16″N 13°31′39.04″E / 51.5039333°N 13.5275111°E / 51.5039333; 13.5275111
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Grube Gotthold

Grube Gotthold ("Gotthold Pit") is a former

brown coal and gravel pit in the South Brandenburg county of Elbe-Elster
.

History

Protected as a geotope by the Brandenburg State Office for Geoscience and Raw Materials: petrified quartz sand.
Brown coal seam

The former mine known as Grube Gotthold is located about 2 kilometres west of the village of

bucket dredger
(Eimerkettenbagger) with a maximum carrying capacity of 150 m3/h.

The extraction of

narrow gauge railway, whose obvious lack of safety led to numerous complaints, was replaced by a cable railway
.

During the

prisoners of war. From 1943, 15 Soviet prisoners of war from Stalag IV-B at Mühlberg
worked here. Evcen when their working day ended they were sent to help in the strawberry fields of Hohenleipisch. In 1945 mining operations came to a standstill because the pumping station no longer worked and the pit slowly filled with water.

A devastating forest fire on the Liebenwerda Heath in 1947 destroyed a huge area of the adjacent forest as well as all the mining buildings and burned out the coal seam at Grube Gotthold, leading to the final closure of the mine.[1][2]

From 1960, large parts of the adjacent forest of the old Liebenwerda District Heathland (Liebenwerdaer Amtsheide) were used as a

recce troops, but due to the geological circumstances of the mine, these plans were never put into action.[3]

Today the terrain of the former brown coal pit is part of the Forsthaus Prösa Nature Reserve which was established in 1990.[4]

Footnotes and references

  1. ^ Dr. Herbert Sucher, Bettina Beyer (1994), Grube Gotthold in Heimatkalender für den Kreis Bad Liebenwerda und das Mückenberger Ländchen (in German), Bad Liebenwerda, pp. 187 to 197{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  2. ^ Dr. Herbert Sucher (1994), Von Agnes bis Wilhelmine in Heimatkalender für den Kreis Bad Liebenwerda und das Mückenberger Ländchen (in German), Bad Liebenwerda, pp. 175 to 181{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ISBN 3-932913-22-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  4. ^ Petra Wießner (1997), Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Heimatkunde e.V. Bad Liebenwerda (ed.), "Der Weg zum Naturpark Niederlausitzer Heidelandschaft" in "Heimatkalender für den Altkreis Bad Liebenwerda, das Mückenberger Ländchen, Ortrand am Schraden und Uebigau-Falkenberg" (in German), Bad Liebenwerda, pp. 172–180{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

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