Rovnost Mine, Jáchymov, Karlovy Vary District, Karlovy Vary Region, Czech Republici

Regional Level Types
Rovnost Mine	Mine
Jáchymov	Municipality
Karlovy Vary District	District
Karlovy Vary Region	Region
Czech Republic	Country

Worked on 'Roter' vein.

The Rovnost mine is a former mine near the town of Jáchymov.

Originally, silver, cobalt and zinc were mined in this mine - similarly to other parts of the Jáchymov mining district.

After the extraction of these minerals and many years of stagnation, it began to be used in the 19th century exclusively for uranium ore mining.

The mine was built west of Jáchymov, in a place originally called Zimmerhöhe, today Důlní vrchy.

In the immediate vicinity of the mining area, in the years 1940–1961, there was a prisoner of war and later a penal labour camp, Rovnost.

The mine was founded in 1792 under the name Rudolf Mine (after Rudolf II).

From 1850, the Werner Mine was named after the professor of the Mining Academy in Freiberg - geologist Abraham Gottlob Werner (1749–1817).

The mine was renamed Rovnost after the Second World War, when the "Rovnost I plant, n. P. Jáchymovské doly" was established here.

The mining pit of the Werner-Rovnost mine used to be the deepest mine in the Jáchymov region before it was flooded.

Its twelfth floor lay at a depth of 660 meters. This mine is connected to the Svornost mine by a ditch.

In the years 1940–1961, non-free labor was also used to mine the local uranium ore.

At first, between 1940 and 1945, these were prisoners of war under the administration of the Nazi forces, and from 1946 to 1949, on the contrary, German prisoners under the administration of the Soviet authorities were deployed here.

The prisoners were housed in makeshift prison quarters, built directly in the mining area.

In the autumn of 1949, the existing prisoners were exchanged for convicted criminals - criminal, retribution and political prisoners.

The last prison shift worked at the Rovnost I mine on April 28, 1961.

Civil miners continued mining at Rovnost for several more months.

All mining activities at the Rovnost I mine were stopped in July 1962.

The entire mining area was subsequently liquidated.

The entrance to the mine shaft was fenced off, but not buried.

Thanks to the elevation between the individual Jáchymov galleries, the Rovnost shaft functions as a venting chimney for the Svornost mine.

Most of the mining buildings in the area of ​​the Rovnost I mine, including the main representative First Republic villa, were razed to the ground.

Several of the remaining technical houses were converted into family recreational facilities.

The so-called chain factory, used to disguise convicts, remained unused.

The large SNB building, standing next to the mining area, is now in operation as the Hotel Berghof.

The Jáchymovské peklo nature trail leads around the mine.

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Wikipedia:	https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%AFl_Rovnost
Wikidata ID:	Q11863223

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