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Road bike route PUR Ballermann what's up

There is now a maximum parking time of 4 hours

Nice place to take a break and take a photo break 😉

A great structure for the fish.

Easy to see directly from the bridge.

Further attempts to develop the mine between 1728, initially by Ludwig Balthasar Müller, mining inspector of Thalitter, and 1737 also proved unsuccessful. After that, only exploratory work took place between 1850 and 1900. In 1908, the mining area was acquired by the Krupp company from Essen. Since 1968, it has belonged to Harz-Lahn-Erzbergbau GmbH. Source: Wikipedia In 1965, local residents founded an association for the study of local mining. Since 1974, the former Bertsch copper ore mine near the village has been open to the public as a visitor mine. The remaining mine system near Bergfreiheit now comprises approximately 20 km of veins.

Throughout the upper Urff valley, mining operations (especially adits) as well as processing facilities (hammer mills, foundries) and infrastructure existed during the 16th and 17th centuries. As early as 1577, the mine workings of Bergfreiheit were drained by a waterwheel; the first system had two above-ground and one underground waterwheel in the adit, with a diameter of 7 meters. After mining ceased, the waterwheel was dismantled in 1662. At its peak, Bergfreiheit had a population of around 1,000. Mining in Bergfreiheit ended around 1590 after approximately 40 years. Due to decline and emigration, the 19 smelting works gradually closed, and by the end of the Thirty Years' War, only 15 inhabitants remained. An attempt to resume ore mining in 1651, which was very costly, failed and was abandoned just 10 years later.

Great alternative to the main street: without cars & good surface.