E.C.H. Dannenberg, The Harz: A Poem in Seven Cantos (1781)
This rather technical, illustrated panegyric in seven cantos to mining in the Harz Mountains is dedicated to Caroline’s relation by marriage,
“The Right Reverend and Learned Gentleman Herr Georg Christoph Dahme, General-Superintendent of the Principality Grubenhagen and Special Superintendent and Pastor Primarius in Clausthal.”
Tools of the Miner
Title Vignette and Explanation
Shaft and Sorting Sheds
Vignettes to Cantos 1 and 3
Shaft Blueprint
Vignette to Canto 2
Oven and Storage Mounds
Vignettes to Cantos 3 and 5
A Harz Hunting Scene (wild boars)
Vignette to Canto 6
The Rehberg Trench at Andreasberg
Vignette to Canto 7
Excavations 1617 using Divining Rods
G. E. Löhneyss, Bericht vom Bergkwerck, wie man dieselben bawen und in guten Wolstandt bringen soll, sampt allen darzu gehörigen Arbeiten, Ordnung und rechtlichen Process / beschrieben durch G. E. Löhneyss (Zellerfeld 1617), plate following p. 12. The small town Zellerfeld is located just opposite Clausthal, where Caroline lived.
Excavations
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, plate following p. 12.
Mining operations above ground
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, plate following p. 50
Mining Shafts
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, plate following p. 50
Shafts, Pulley Mechanisms
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, plate following p. 56, second plate following p. 60.
Bellows Operations above Ground
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, first plate following p. 60
Operations above Ground and in a Shaft
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, first plate following p. 60
Drainage Operations
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, first plate following p. 62
Water Power Operations
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, first plate following p. 62
Water Power Operations
Bericht vom Bergkwerck, second plate following p. 62