Places
of interestThe mining museum at Ridnaun on the Schneeberg mountain.
The mining museum at Ridnaun on the Schneeberg mountain.
This is Europe’s highest mine, located at
2500 metres (8122 ft) and connects the Ridnaun Valley
with the Passeier Valley. For some 800 years silver,
lead and zinc were extracted from this mine in the
Schneeberg massif in an era described as ‘Tyrol’s
Silver Epoch’. Up to 1000 miners laboured
here at any one time in 70 galleries under the most
arduous working and living conditions.
The mine has now been transformed into a museum
and visitors are offered three different tours of
varying lengths, revealing in detail the hardships
which miners had to endure underground in former
times.
