Grube Wilder Mann
Parent: Hessen
Type: Gruva
The Wilder Mann (also Wildermann) mine was a metal ore mine in the district of Müsen, now a district of Hilchenbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district. It was one of the most important of over 50 mines in the Müsen area and was at times an operational division of the Altenberg mine.
Coordinates: 50.9916° (latitude), 8.0276° (longitude)
Mentioned in travelogues
This place appears in the following travelogues with the quoted excerpts.
Kalmeter's report of German mines (1718–1727)
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R:dr om året. Några 100:de famnar högre emot samma berg och emot Norden eller Nordost, ligger then andra grufwa kallad der wilde man , hwilken och drifwes af andra Interessenter, som delt Werket i 135 Kucksen eller delar. Ther skall ock af gam-
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mer. Ifrån d. 19 Decembr. A:o 1721 till d. 19 Aprill 1726, som äro 4 1/2 år, har wid thenna Wildemans grufwa af 1600 Cent:r malm och Bokschlick blifwit utbragta 978 qw:r 9 lod 4 1/2 gran fint Silfwer, och 58 Cent:r