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Ore Trail: Former Ilsdorf Mine

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Ore Trail: Former Ilsdorf Mine

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Ore Trail: Former Ilsdorf Mine

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  • Location: Mücke, Vogelsbergkreis, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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    March 18, 2022

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    Around Ilsdorf, especially between the Ilsdorf pit and the B49, you can find brown-red chunks of ore when the fields are freshly plowed and the rain has washed the stones free.
    This was perhaps one of the reasons why exploratory shafts were sunk west and east of Ilsdorf in the years from 1868 onwards. The mighty brown iron deposits identified were each several hundred meters long and up to 150 m wide. Lumpy ore was laboriously mined by hand through these shafts.
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    March 10, 2022

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    Not only here in Ilsdorf, but in the entire area around Mücke, hikers will find numerous information boards on mining: former mines and industrial cable cars are described.
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    The former mine is located at Lutherweg 1521 and ERZWeg Mitte.
    A themed circular route with numerous information boards on the history of iron ore mining in the municipality of Mücke.
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    Location: Mücke, Vogelsbergkreis, Gießen District, Hesse, Germany

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