Berggeschrey or Berggeschrei was a German term for the rapid spread of news on the discovery of rich ore deposits that led to the rapid establishment of a mining region, as in the silver rush in the e
1522 depiction of the historic mining industry on Annaberg's mining altar
Parts of the Old Town of Johanngeorgenstadt had to be demolished and afforested in 1953 due to subsidence
The Schreckenberg is a mountain near Frohnau in the county of Erzgebirgskreis in the central Ore Mountains of Germany. It is 648.8 m above sea level. It is located one kilometre northwest of the town
View of the Schreckenberg ruins on the top of the mountain.
The Frohnau Hammer Mill below the Schreckenberg