Hike through the mining landscape Buchholz
The mining educational trail "through the Buchholzer Forest" is located in the heart of the UNESCO World Heritage Montan region Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří and takes hikers on a journey through mining history – from the Middle Ages to the Wismut era.
The hall church "St. Katharinen" with its culturally and historically important Wolfgang altar and the former main altar of the Annaberg Franciscan monastery, as well as the Buchholzer execution site marked by two rock slabs, still bear witness to the silver ore mining era today. In the last phase of mining, at the beginning of the 20th century, terraconic heaps (pointed cone heaps) were also created through uranium ore extraction, which are only preserved here in Buchholz in the Ore Mountains.
The hike is rounded off by a visit to the oldest blacksmith museum in Germany, the Frohnauer Hammer. Converted from a grain mill to a hammer mill in 1621, tools for mining and agriculture were produced here until 1904.
