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Water-lifting House Mendenschachter Aufschlagrösche

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Water-lifting House Mendenschachter Aufschlagrösche

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Location: Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

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☀️🔵⚪️🔵⚜️Ralph2011⚜️🔵⚪️🔵☀️

September 29, 2021

The small chew was built around 1820 over a day shaft on the one about 10 m lower

Mendenschachter erected an opening pipe. This led to impact water from the

Neuglück and Drei Eichen treasure trove to the ones in the Menden shaft

Hydro power machines from the old murder pit. With the help of a

The surrounding opencast buildings of the Alte Mordgrube, i.e. the hut house, the mountain smithy, the material and prayer house and the shaft building, could be supplied with water. Due to its function, the chew is therefore called a water lift house. Still in use today, however, it serves to supply the surrounding houses with drinking water. The water lift house, a small, single-storey structure on an approximately square base area of approx. 4 x 4 m, has a low, only approx. 1 m high, surrounding masonry made of quarry stone and is closed off by a steep gable roof. A small roof turret, the so-called watch tower, sits in the middle of this. The gable triangles are boarded up. A small staircase on the front eaves side leads to the entrance door, which is partly below floor level. The water lifting house has a shape typical for chewing. These typical mining structures were originally widespread and shaped the landscape around Freiberg and Brand-Erbisdorf. Few of these chews have survived to this day. The water lifting house is part of a mining facility that has also been well preserved and impresses with its cohesion and authenticity. Based on their

Position to each other, not only the functional connection between the preserved opencast buildings becomes clear. Rather, they also allow conclusions to be drawn about underground systems. For example, the water lift house, together with the nearby shaft building, marks the course of the Mendenschachten impact chute. Thus it has a mining historical significance and also has a testimonial value for the rose that is not visible above ground.

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☀️🔵⚪️🔵⚜️Ralph2011⚜️🔵⚪️🔵☀️

October 11, 2021

Highly recommended, one of the few preserved houses of this type in central Saxony.

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Wurmi_TV_Nature

August 18, 2025

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Changing room above the Rösche (water pumping station) at the

Mendenschacht (mine shaft).

Located directly on the path,

the changing room is located above a surface shaft leading to the Aufschlagrösche (mine shaft).

In keeping with its function,

the changing room was called a water pumping station.

The changing room, dating back to the 19th century, has a typical shape. Only a few of these changing rooms, which once characterized the mining landscape, have survived to the present day.

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Location: Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

Water-lifting House Mendenschachter Aufschlagrösche

1. Hammer Bridge (Freiberg) – Albertpark loop from Freiberg Ost

2. View of Berthelsdorfer Teich – Erzengler Pond loop from Freiberg (Sachs)

3. Rothbächer Pond – Röschenmundloch Mendenschacht loop from Zug

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