The mountain town of Johanngeorgenstadt was founded as the last important mountain town in the Saxon Ore Mountains in 1654 by Bohemian exiles. In the first post-war years, tens of …
"Happiness!" - Here at the Glöckl mine, you can set your own hand to work and actively experience how it lives and works as a miner. The temperature in the tunnel is constantly 8 degrees throughout the year. So, leave the shorts at home and off to adventure.
Under Johanngeorgenstadt in the Erzgebirge, many tunnels tell of mining, through which silver and other valuable raw materials such as tin and iron were obtained. Even today, the visitor can experience how back then and later under the SDAG bismuth was worked. You can even do it yourself.