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Eliáš Memorial Mound

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Eliáš Memorial Mound

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Eliáš Memorial Mound

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Location: Karlovarský kraj, Severozápad, Czech Republic

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master.dica (Jürgen61) 📸🥾🚴‍♀️&🏃‍♂️

July 10, 2023

When we speak of the Elijah camp, we must distinguish between two camps - Elijah I and Elijah II. They are also referred to as the old or upper and the new or lower. However, inside the envelope they were both denoted N. On the way of the cross in the Joachimsthaler church it is marked with the symbol of a lattice.
The uranium mining boom in the Eliáš valley was triggered by the discovery of 200 kg of uranium ore in the dump of the former Eliáš silver mine. Therefore, a prisoner of war camp was set up at this location at an altitude of 900 meters. German prisoners of war were interned here between 1946 and 1949.
The Eliáš I camp was established on July 29, 1949 on the site of the original prisoner of war camp as the fourth camp in the Jáchymov region. The capacity of the camp was set at 647 prisoners, of whom 588 were assigned to work in the mine and the rest to work on the surface. They then worked in different...

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July 18, 2020

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master.dica (Jürgen61) 📸🥾🚴‍♀️&🏃‍♂️

July 10, 2023

.....Workshops that are necessary for the operation of the camp. They were housed in four barracks. In another barrack there was an infirmary, an infirmary and workshops. Staff Sergeant Candra was appointed camp commander. The commanding officer was subsequently replaced by SVS officers F. Levinský, J. Žemlička, M. Nekovář and SNB officers S. Novotný, F. Malina and Kadlčík. Because the camp was right on top of the silver mine dump, where a significant amount of pitch was found, it was closed after the move in late 1951. The heap was then demined and processed.
Camp Elijah II was built to replace Elijah I, and its construction was rushed without prior landscape planning. The terrain of the camp was therefore very rugged and for example one of the barracks had a corner built directly over the bed of Elijah Creek. The river bed was therefore partially filled up with concrete pipes...

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Eliáš Memorial Mound

1. Ruins of Freudenstein Castle – Heinz Pond loop from Mariánská

2. Heinz Pond – Ruins of Freudenstein Castle loop from Jáchymov

3. Restaurant-Pension Anton – Heinz Pond loop from Nové Město

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