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Wolfsschlucht Slate Mine

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Wolfsschlucht Slate Mine

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    March 25, 2018

    In the 18th century, many houses with their thatched roofs burned down. And so they looked for more suitable building materials, first with the slab stone and later with the slate.
    As early as 1767, the first records of the neighboring Wissenbach slate mine were found. The Simmersbach underground mine can be dated to the same time, especially since it was first mentioned in 1815 (Eibelshausen) and 1816 (Frechenhausen).
    In the years 1863 and 1880, the mine with Joh. Emmerich (Hirzenhein) and Heinrich Keller (Eiershausen) claimed two lives.
    In 1884, 36 people were standing in the Wolfsschlucht slate quarry under the former
    Leaseholder Dromm from Gießen in wages and bread and with 500 tons already extracted 100 tons more than the mine in Wissenbach at the same time.
    A break in the mine workings interrupted the production activities in 1896.
    Another break finally buried the funding opportunities for wall and roof slate, so that only slate slabs and blocks and later broken slate for the production of concrete - heavy concrete and exposed aggregate concrete blocks could be conveyed. Against the competition that promoted opencast mining, the price was increasingly inferior, so that Karl Jacobi decided in 1973 to discontinue underground operations.

    Source: soemmaschbuch.de/wolfsschlucht

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      November 23, 2019

      Nice quiet place to take a break and enjoy nature.

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        May 17, 2020

        Very nice place for a short rest.

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          Location: Eschenburg, Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Lahntal, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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