Educational Mining Trail Přebuz
Hammer
Educational Mining Trail Přebuz
The slope, where twists the road between the Rotavský creek valley and Přebuz was called „Am Bucharich“ („at hammer“). Miners were brought here extracted and manually sorted tin ores from surrounding mines. At pre-determined days, pounding of wooden stamps in stamp mill echoed away. A stamp mill consisted of a set of iron-shod wooden stamps, loosely held vertically in a frame, in which the stamps slid up and down. When the stamps fell below, they crushed ores on a hard granite block. The stamp mill was driven by a water wheel; water was fed there by artificial water ditch, known as „Karlgraben“. More water than today flowed previously through the centre of the mining town Přebuz. The Rotavský stream was strengthened by water from the Rolavský creek led there by Přebuz ditch. Mines, stamp mill and adjacent tin smelter were up to 1815 in operation.
Tailings hillocks
Small mounds of waste by the roadside, which are overgrown with heath, bilberry, cowberry, bog bilberry, mountain arnica and spruce trees, are the remains of the ore crushing and washing activities. A remnant of stamp mill „Bucharich“ is the stamp stone with a typical triad of holes, which lies at a private garden in Přebuz. A careful eye can still read in the meadow next to our stand slight depression of the former water moat.
Tailings hillocks
Stamp stone in Přebuz
This text was written by Petr Rojík.
