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Embankment of the Former Iron Railway

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Embankment of the Former Iron Railway

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Location: Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

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October 11, 2021

In the north of the heap, a 268 m long earth dam, partially fortified with dry stone walls, joins the heap body. This was created in the years 1829/1830 in order to connect the new Poch- und pusher-hearth washing, built in 1828/1929 further north of the Menden shaft, to the existing conveying and ore separating systems of the old murder pit.

On the one hand, it served as an ore embankment for an iron railroad constructed by the Saxon master craftsman Christian Friedrich Brendel, with which the divorced ore could be transported from the ore rolls to the processing plants via the aforementioned tunnel in the dump body and the embankment adjoining the northern edge of the dump. The English trolleys used here were equipped with flange wheels and could be moved on iron-clad square timbers despite their weight using human strength. A section of this early track system can be seen today as a memorial text reconstruction on the ore railway embankment.

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August 18, 2025

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A 268-meter-long railway line was built in 1829/30 to transport the ore separated and sorted above ground for processing the mine.

The scuttles pushed by the miners had a capacity of

0.3 m³.

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Location: Brand-Erbisdorf, Mittelsachsen, Saxony, Germany

Embankment of the Former Iron Railway

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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