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It was roughly at this spot that a long-time resident of Unglinghausen tried his luck on his own. The mine proved unprofitable. The reconstruction of the mine entrance and the entire design were carried out by volunteers from the Unglinghausen Citizens' Association and the Unglinghausen Forest Cooperative. Today, this area is a decorative section of the Unglinghausen themed trail, which runs approximately 50 meters further uphill.

Remnants from the time when siderite was mined in several pits and tunnels in this region. The Clara Tunnel led from the valley to the Leo Shaft.

Air raid shelter from 1944, 26 meters deep... inaccessible... 30 meters further on, another tunnel, 19 meters deep

Slightly hidden, the Clara Tunnel is located in the quarry above the old stone crushing plant, on the bike path to the chapel.

Eighty years ago, people sought refuge here from bombs from the air… Today it is a lost place!

Directly opposite this mini cave, a path to the right leads over a newly constructed footbridge to a small, hidden forester's house with a pond. This means that this cave was probably previously used as a game cellar. The cave was specially constructed, which can be clearly seen from the concrete ceiling.

The air raid shelter from the Second World War.

"... Station 15: “Glücksanfang upper tunnel” mine – In the upper tunnel of the “Glückanfang” mine, from 1722 onwards, in addition to iron, lead, silver, copper and zinc ores were mined in two 1 m thick and 80 m long corridors . Already before the middle of the 19th century, the Glücksbeginning mine “consolidated” with the Jungemann, whose name it also took..." https://www.wittgensteiner-wanderland.de/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/kindelsbergpfad.pdf