!!!Mühlbach am Hochkönig

Muehlbach am Hochkoenig, province of Salzburg, municipality in the 
district of St. Johann, alt. 860 m, pop. 1.602, area 
51.50 km%%sup 2/%, bi-seasonal tourist resort (309,322 overnight 
stays) southeast of the Hochkoenig mountain. - Youth sports camp, 
Rudolfschanze ski jump, Muehlbach power station (built 1909, 700 KWh), 
Karbachalm cabin cable-car (1,591 m). Important prehistoric 
mining centre from the early Bronze Age until the late Iron Age, 
mainly exploitation of copper deposits of  Mitterberg, northwest of 
Muehlbach am Hochkoenig. Another mining site on the eastern slope of 
Hochkeil mountain (1,782 m, both in the municipality of Muehlbach 
am Hochkoenig). At first opencast mining (depressions), then also 
underground mining (down to a depth of 170 m). About 200 
prehistoric copper smelting sites have been discovered around 
Muehlbach am Hochkoenig and Bischofshofen. Mining was resumed in 1829, 
smelting of chalcopyrite concentrate from 1829 in Lend, 1840-1886/87 
in Schmoelz near Muehlbach, owing to deforestation and natural 
disasters transferred to  Mitterberghuetten, mining continued until 
1977. - Late Gothic parish church, enlarged and tower built in 1883; 
mining museum and museum of local history and culture, circuit hiking 
trail, old farmhouse types "Pongauer Paarhof" (18%%sup th/%  century).

!Literature
C. Eibner, Der Kupferbergbau in den oesterreichischen. 
Alpen in der Urzeit, 1992.


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