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Schönthal Mine Tunnel

Schönthal Mine Tunnel

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Schönthal Mine Tunnel

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Naturpark Fränkische Schweiz - Frankenjura

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Location: Bad Staffelstein, Lichtenfels, Upper Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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3. View of the Staffelberg – Staffelberg loop from Bad Staffelstein

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Söhni 🏃

July 11, 2020

The first iron ores from the Braunjura in the Staffelberg area were discovered in 1650 on the Langen Berg near Uetzing. The ore was mined for 35 years and was first smelted in the specially built episcopal hammer mill in Zeussenhammer in the Lichtenfels forest on Schneybach above Schney - the place is still called Hammer today. At Vierzehnheiligen, the first iron ore mining was documented in 1865, later from 1907 until the beginning of the First World War in 1914 and from 1920 to 1930. In the last period, the "Schöntahl colliery" is also called. It was operated by the Nuremberg trade union "Heinrich".

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BirgitDa

May 5, 2020

The Schönthalstollen is located just below the Vierzehnheiligen basilica. Ore was mined there until the 1940s. The reconstruction of a tunnel mouth of the "Little John" pit shows where the miners once did their bone job.

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dr. dorsch

April 3, 2022

Coming from Staffelberg after 14heiligen, turn left off the main path. And you come back to the main path just before the brewery

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Schönthal Mine Tunnel

1. View of Kloster Banz – Staffelberg loop from Grundfeld

2. Staffelberg – View of Kloster Banz loop from Horsdorf

3. View of the Staffelberg – Staffelberg loop from Bad Staffelstein

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