The Silver Road
Silver is the mother of the Ore mountains. During the so
called “Grosses Berggeschrey” (The big Silver Fever) at the end of the
Middle Ages people streamed from everywhere into the miriquidi, the Dark
Forest between Saxony and Bohemia, to mine silver out of the deep. No other
mountains are connected so closely with mining. The Ore mountains are
characterized not only by mines and dumps, but also by smelteries and, of
course, the rich mining towns with their large hall churches, as there are
Annaberg und Marienberg. Even when the source of prosperity run dry and the
people battled as craftspeople for their existence, they abided with the
motives miner and candle arch by the mining. |
Visitor´s mine in Pobershau
Horse gin Lauta |
The Panoramic Bikeway
In many visitor´s mines along the marked bikeway
Silver Road from Zwickau to Dresden you experience the dark world of the
miners, who did not see the sun for many weeks in winter. Come to know, how
copper and silver were separated from each other, in the smeltery
Saigerhuette Olbernhau. The numerous groves you see on the fields and
meadows reveal each a dump or an old adit. In case you break to sweat on an
ascent, just remember the hard life of the miners and you´ll feel better
soon.
Map
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