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Former tunnel of the Waldzeche 2 mine

A small, beautiful Stollen

You can't get right up close, but you can still get a good view of the deserter's old home from the path 🙂

The cave is located in a generally beautiful area. Tours are worthwhile

Nice place to pause.

A sign pointing to the Barbarastollen has now been installed on the main path. This makes it much easier to find!

The pit, popularly known as "Brotmann's Cave", was initially created by the mining of sandstone, which formed here on 80 million year old sea sand and was planed free by the glaciers of the Ice Age. The pit was deepened by Werner Kempken, who hid here from 1865 to 1875 while fleeing military service. His father helped him. Since he regularly did unskilled bread work for the farmers in the area, he was called the bread man. With the help of good people, he was finally able to escape to the United States. What cold and troubles did he suffer here for 10 years and how much nicer than the battlefield was the chirping forest? Let's be happy that we can live so comfortably and peacefully today.

The Mariengrotte is a stone grotto that was probably created artificially and was probably modeled on the Lourd Grotto in the forest on the Annaberg and near the chapel and on the Way of the Cross. There are many crosses laid there and other devotional objects that testify to the piety of the people who have visited this place. Pretty impressive.