📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
European Heritage Volunteers
💼 What the programme involves
The volunteers will support the conservation and restoration of both heritage objects aeuro Fundgrube Wolfgang Maen and Schindlers Werk. The works on both sites will go parallel, and the volunteers will be able during the project duration to alternate between the two working groups.At Fundgrube Wolfgang Maen the volunteers will work as well in the underground as in the wheelhouse and its surroundings. They will support the driving of an underground tunnel, will survey and document underground works in the area and excavate the so-called "Mehlfhrung" from 1863, a kind of dressing site. In case of bad weather works in the wheel chamber will be possible, too.At Schindlers Werk the volunteers will carry out securing and maintenance works at the coachman s house, the long house (aeurooeLanges Hausaeuro) that was housing former stables and the carpentry workshop, at the houses 3, 5 and 6 as well as maintenance works at the already secured Black Casino. Furthermore, they will prepa
🏠 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
Located in the Western Ore Mountains, the Schneeberg Mining Landscape is one of the seventeen Saxon component parts of the UNESCO World Heritage nomination Erzgebirge/KruUnoho Mining Region. In the 19th century, the mine Fundgrube Wolfgang Maen was one of the most important cobalt mines in Saxony. This created the prerequisite for some exceptional technical installations which by the beginning of the 19th century led to the construction of a major ore dressing work on the mining site. Of the mine complex, the stamp mill building, the administration and assembly building, the foremanaeuros house, the mine forge and remains of the hoisting house and power house have been preserved. Restoration works are on-going at the stamp mill of the mine including the underground stamp wheel house since 2004. A minersaeuro association is responsible for the care and maintenance of the mill. The closely associated Schindlers Werk Smalt Works is a rare example of an extraordinary well-preserved process
ℹ️ Additional information
Motivation letter related to the project and CV photo required