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The mine is definitely worth a visit.

Nice corner to take a breather, especially when the sun is shining it is still nice and shady

Beautiful hiking trail, you can discover something different in every season.

Super well preserved memory of the mining of that time 👍🏼

Rest area with stamp box of HWN No. 175 A must for stamp hunters 😉

A mine was probably built here in the 16th century to mine copper and iron ore. However, fluorspar, chalcopyrite, arsenic pyrite and galena were mined. After it was closed in the 17th century, the mine fell into oblivion and was only rediscovered in the 1870s when gravel was extracted for road construction. The Magdeburg researcher Lessing then explored the cave, but the water in the shafts was up to 25 m high. After it was filled in, a waterworks was built here at the beginning of the 20th century, but it was destroyed by a rockfall just a few years later. In the 1950s, the Lessing Cave was searched for uranium-containing ore. The proportion of this radioactive metal was, fortunately for the town, too small. Today the cave serves as a refuge for bats and is therefore under special protection. Source: https://www.quedlinburg-info.de

The right tunnel can be accessed for about 40m. The deeper mine workings are flooded and the other two tunnels are filled. The Lessing Cave is also opened up every year for the "hike on the trail of mining". Source: https://harzklub-bad-suderode.de

From the perspective of hikers, the Glasebach mine is located near Straßberg and not in the middle of it. A nice starting point in Glasberg is the Selketalbahn station. The path to the Glasebach mine (with stamping point HWN 175) is about 2 km from here.