Grube Gotthold

The former mine known as Grube Gotthold is located about 2 kilometres west of the village of Hohenleipisch in the German state of Brandenburg.

A narrow gauge pit railway transported the coal to the loading ramp of the Upper Lusatian Gravel and Sand Works (Oberlausitzer Kies- und Sandwerke, OKS) about 3 kilometres away in Biehla.

The first managers of the business, which had its head office in Elsterwerda and a share capital of initially 39,000 marks, were Paul Freitag and Franz Kotik.

In 1945 mining operations came to a standstill because the pumping station no longer worked and the pit slowly filled with water.

[3] Today the terrain of the former brown coal pit is part of the Forsthaus Prösa Nature Reserve which was established in 1990.

Grube Gotthold
Protected as a geotope by the Brandenburg State Office for Geoscience and Raw Materials: petrified quartz sand.
Brown coal seam