📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
European Heritage Volunteers
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will support the new roofing of the historic wooden shingle roof of the shaft and administration building of the Alte Elisabeth mine. They will produce a kind of handmade shingles that are traditionally used in the Ore Mountains region. Volunteers will split of the shingles from logs (spruce or larch), will provide them with a groove. The participants will be qualified to produce wooden shingles and get familiar with the typical regional roofing. In addition, the volunteers will support the roofing works that are carried out in the same time. The works will be lead by a carpenter who is specialised in traditional wooden shingle roofing. At Lichtloch VII the participants will restore the capping of the wheel chamber with gneiss stones. The capping of the wall remains have suffered from weathering and several stones are missing; the arches of the openings are not preserved.The participants will sort and square the rubbles stones for the walls, prepare the surrounding area,
🏠 Accommodation on site
shared rooms with beds, warm showers, toilets,The meals will be prepared together as they are part of the community life, what means that everybody will be responsible for the meal at least once during its stay. So it would be very nice if you could bring typical recipes from home in order to introduce each other to the preparation of food from all over the world.
📍 About the location
In 1168, the first discovery of silver ore in Freiberg had a profound and lasting effect on the development of the region. Located in a Central European mountain range the region has played a major role at certain times in the output of tin, silver, cobalt, caolin and uranium in a global context. The rich ore deposits gave the region its name Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains). Mining was for centuries the key industry forming an exceptional transboundary mining cultural landscape with all its typical surface and underground installations, mining towns and natural features as well as the associated intangible values. The mine Alte Elisabeth in Freiberg is part of the Himmelfahrt Fundgrube mining system, the largest ore mine in the Freiberg area and the most productive mine in the history of the Ore Mountains. The Alte Elisabeth mineaeuros surface buildings are located on a large waste heap mesa tiered since the early 16thcentury overlooking Freiberg town. In 1848, the shaft was given a steam g
ℹ️ Additional information
Motivation letter related to the project and CV photo required