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Lautenthal
The formerly free mining town ('' Bergstadt'') of Lautenthal in Germany is a state-recognised, climatic spa with around 1,570 inhabitants and has been part of the borough of Langelsheim since 1972. Geography Lautenthal lies in the Innerste valley between Clausthal-Zellerfeld and Langelsheim in the northwestern Upper Harz. The town is located at a height of about in a valley bowl, the surrounding mountains being up to . The two rivers of the Innerste and the Laute flow through the town. Towards Langelsheim the Innerste is impounded by the Innerste Dam. History Mining of copper, lead and silver in the area around Lautenthal started about 1225. In the middle of the 14th century, however, the Harz was depopulated because of plague and mining came to an end. Mining in the Harz was started again in 1524. Lautenthal was founded in 1538 as a mining settlement on the river Laute, a small tributary of the Innerste, and had already been given the status of a town by 1580. Sixte ...
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Laute (river)
Laute is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Innerste. The Laute rises in the vicinity of Hahnenklee in the Upper Harz and discharges about {{cvt, 6, km later into the Innerste in Lautenthal. The source is at an elevation of about 540 m at the bottom of a mountain called ''Kuttelbacher Berg''. The Laute flows to the west parallel to road L 516 which is called ''Hahnenkleer Straße'' in Lautenthal. The name of the town means ''Laute Valley''. The mouth is at an elevation of about 300 m in the west of ''Wildemanner Strasse'', the high street of Lautenthal. In 1875 a railway bridge of the Innerste Valley Railway was built over the Laute close to its mouth. Although the railway line was closed in 1977, the bridge is well preserved and still used by hikers. A flood of the Laute caused considerable damage in Lautenthal in 1877.Fremdenverkehrsverein Bergstadt Lautenthal e.V.: ''Lautenthal - wo der Harz am schönsten ist'', p. 38. Lautenthal 2003 ...
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Laute In Lauthenthal
Laute is a river of Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Innerste. The Laute rises in the vicinity of Hahnenklee in the Upper Harz and discharges about {{cvt, 6, km later into the Innerste in Lautenthal. The source is at an elevation of about 540 m at the bottom of a mountain called ''Kuttelbacher Berg''. The Laute flows to the west parallel to road L 516 which is called ''Hahnenkleer Straße'' in Lautenthal. The name of the town means ''Laute Valley''. The mouth is at an elevation of about 300 m in the west of ''Wildemanner Strasse'', the high street of Lautenthal. In 1875 a railway bridge of the Innerste Valley Railway was built over the Laute close to its mouth. Although the railway line was closed in 1977, the bridge is well preserved and still used by hikers. A flood of the Laute caused considerable damage in Lautenthal in 1877.Fremdenverkehrsverein Bergstadt Lautenthal e.V.: ''Lautenthal - wo der Harz am schönsten ist'', p. 38. Lautenthal 2003 ...
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Upper Harz
The Upper Harz (german: Oberharz, ) refers to the northwestern and higher part of the Harz mountain range in Germany. The exact boundaries of this geographical region may be defined differently depending on the context. In its traditional sense, the term Upper Harz covers the area of the seven historical mining towns (''Bergstädte'') - Clausthal, Zellerfeld, Andreasberg, Altenau, Lautenthal, Wildemann and Grund - in the present-day German federal state of Lower Saxony. Orographically, it comprises the Harz catchment areas of the Söse, Innerste and Grane, Oker and Abzucht mountain streams, all part of the larger Weser watershed. Much of the Upper Harz area is up to above sea level. In a wider sense, it also comprises the adjacent High Harz (''Hochharz'') range in the east, climbing to over in the Brocken massif. Geography The region is centred on the geological structure of the region around the municipality of Clausthal-Zellerfeld, merged in 1924. From the Clausthal ...
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Wildemann
Wildemann () is a town and a former municipality in the district of Goslar, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It has been part of the town Clausthal-Zellerfeld since January 1, 2015. It is situated in the west of the Harz, northwest of Clausthal-Zellerfeld. It was part of the former ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Oberharz. History Wildemann was founded in 1529 by miners from the Ore Mountains. They were sent by the Guelph Dukes to take mining in the Harz to a larger scale again. The forecast after they sighted a while penetration into the inhospitable Innerstetal Wilden Mann, who with a savage lived wife. His traces were located exactly where the largest ore deposits were. Attempts to catch him have failed. Nor did he respond to calls. Eventually he was shot at with arrows, which injured him so much that he could be captured. In captivity he neither spoke nor was he persuaded to work; he only seemed to be interested in the deposits of the ore. When it was decided to take h ...
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Innerste Valley Railway
The Innerste is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Leine river and in length. Origin of the name The river name is not related to the German word ''innerste'' meaning innermost. ''Innerste'', in earlier times called the ''Inste'' (1805), ''Inderste'' (1567), ''Indistria'' (1313), ''Entrista'' (1065) and ''Indrista'' (1013), probably goes back to the Indo-Germanic root ''oid'' = ''turbulent, strong''. It may be the name referred to in the name of the battlefield of '' ''Idista''viso'' (16 A.D.). Course The river's source is in the Harz mountains, from the town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld to the southwest at an elevation of 615 m and is called ''Innerstesprung''. As a small brook, the Innerste flows west and passes a system of lakes, the first of which is called ''Entensumpf''. The next lakes are ''Oberer Nassenwieser Teich'', ''Bärenbrucher Teich'', ''Ziegenberger Teich'', and ''Sumpfteich''. The German word ''Teich'' means "pond". Having ...
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Innerste
The Innerste is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is a right tributary of the Leine river and in length. Origin of the name The river name is not related to the German word ''innerste'' meaning innermost. ''Innerste'', in earlier times called the ''Inste'' (1805), ''Inderste'' (1567), ''Indistria'' (1313), ''Entrista'' (1065) and ''Indrista'' (1013), probably goes back to the Indo-Germanic root ''oid'' = ''turbulent, strong''. It may be the name referred to in the name of the battlefield of '' ''Idista''viso'' (16 A.D.). Course The river's source is in the Harz mountains, from the town of Clausthal-Zellerfeld to the southwest at an elevation of 615 m and is called ''Innerstesprung''. As a small brook, the Innerste flows west and passes a system of lakes, the first of which is called ''Entensumpf''. The next lakes are ''Oberer Nassenwieser Teich'', ''Bärenbrucher Teich'', ''Ziegenberger Teich'', and ''Sumpfteich''. The German word ''Teich'' means "pond". Having ...
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Mining Town
A mining community, also known as a mining town or a mining camp, is a community that houses miners. Mining communities are usually created around a mine or a quarry. Historic mining communities Australia * Ballarat, Victoria * Bendigo, Victoria Austria * Schwaz *Eisenerz, Styria Former Austria-Hungary Upper Austrio-Hungarian mining towns *Göllnitz, today Gelnica *Jossau, today Jasov *Nemecká Ľupča, today Partizánska Ľupča *Schmöllnitz, today Smolník *Rosenau, today Rožňava *Ruda, today Rudabánya in Hungary *Telken, today Telkibánya in Hungary *Zipser Neudorf, today Spišská Nová Ves Lower Austrio-Hungarian mining towns *Dilln, today Banská Belá *Königsberg, today Nová Baňa *Kremnitz, today Kremnica *Libethen, today Ľubietová *Neusohl, today Banská Bystrica *Pukanz, today Pukanec *Schemnitz, today Banská Štiavnica Bosnia and Herzegovina * Banovići * Kakanj *Tuzla * Zenica Canada * Cobalt, Ontario * Glace Bay, Nova Scot ...
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Langelsheim
Langelsheim is a town in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony, Germany. Geography The municipality is situated between the river Innerste and its tributary Grane, on the northern edge of the Harz mountain range and the Harz National Park, located about northwest of Goslar. Subdivisions Langelsheim is divided into eight ''Ortschaften''Hauptsatzung der Stadt Langelsheim
§ 4, November 2021.
with the following population as of 30 June 2020: * Astfeld (2,097 inhabitants) * Bredelem (438 inhabitants) * Hahausen (765 inhabitants) * Langelsheim (5,06 ...
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Grube Lautenthalsglück
Grube is a municipality in the district of Ostholstein, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is situated near the Baltic Sea coast, approx. 15 km south of Heiligenhafen, and 45 km northeast of Lübeck. Grube was the seat of the ''Amt Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...'' ("collective municipality") Grube, which was disbanded in January 2007. It consisted of the following municipalities (population in 2005 between brackets): *Dahme (1176) *Grube * (1047) *Kellenhusen (1060) *Riepsdorf (1042) References Ostholstein {{Ostholstein-geo-stub ...
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Fahrkunst
A man engine is a mechanism of reciprocating ladders and stationary platforms installed in mines to assist the miners' journeys to and from the working levels. It was invented in Germany in the 19th century and was a prominent feature of tin and copper mines in Cornwall until the beginning of the twentieth century. Operation In the Cornish examples the motive power was provided by waterwheels, or one of the mine's steam engines. The steam engine or water wheel would be linked to a series of beams – known as "rods" – fastened together and reaching to the bottom of the mineshaft. These were arranged to offer a reciprocating motion of, typically, twelve to fifteen feet (three to five metres). Small foot platforms were attached to the rods at the same distance apart as the engine stroke and fixed platforms ("sollars") were built onto the shaft walls, spaced to coincide with the top and bottom positions of each of the moving platforms. The moving platforms were often small, ty ...
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