Skip to main content Skip to page footer

The shaft site

  1. Workshop: This is where the necessary repair, maintenance and servicing work is prepared and carried out.
     
  2. Canteen: It was used to cater for the employees and is now used by the personnel data archive.
     
  3. Stockpile: Most of the material mined underground was waste, i.e. worthless rock. It was deposited near the shaft on heaps.
     
  4. Machine house: This is where the electrically driven winding machines were located, controlled by winding machine operators. They were used for hoisting and rope transportation (passenger transport).
     
  5. Terrakonik: Route of the former inclined elevator, with which the worthless, deaf rock was transported to the heap.
     
  6. Shaft house: The lamp room is where miners' lamps, rope travel tokens and self-rescuers were issued. The pit cages were loaded and unloaded on the pit bank. The extracted ore was transported to the adjacent radiometric processing factory (RAF).
     
  7. Headframe: It was used to transport miners, tools, material and also the extracted ore and the overburden underground or above ground to
    with the help of so-called ropeways.
     
  8. Colliery building: The entire administration was located here, including the washhouses. Today, the colliery building houses the administration, the mine rescue service, archives and the laboratory.
     
  9. Post house: access control

The Wismut heritage

Shaft 371, the headframe and the associated building complex as well as the renaturalized slag heap landscape around Aue-Bad Schlema have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Erzgebirge/Krušnohorí since 2019.

In 2021, Wismut GmbH founded the subsidiary Wismut Stiftung gGmbH. The aim of the Wismut Stiftung gGmbH is to preserve, communicate, present and research the multi-layered heritage of Wismut