Cold Spring - One tells oneself...

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In 1827, Johann Glatzhofer, a farmer at Rappoldgut, struggled with his wagon coming from Werfen through the Gainfeld valley to the Mitterberg pass and on to his farm. When he had already covered a good part of the way, he checked his load again and saw that he must have lost one of the loaves of bread lying between the flour sacks on the journey over the Griesfeld. Since bread was a particularly valuable commodity, he promised his son-in-law Thomas that he could keep the loaf if he found it again. Thomas soon found the loaf of bread – but not only that!

The Roßbach creek bed shone like gold and Thomas thought he had found gold. However, it soon turned out that it was “only” a washed-out vein of chalcopyrite. As a result of this event, ore mining began a second time (after the Bronze Age) on Mitterberg – the founding of the “Mitterberger Kupfergewerkschaft” (Mitterberg copper labor union) took place on November 25th, 1829. The ore was stored above the Kaltes Bründl spring and transported down into the valley and on to Lend in winter by horse and cart or wooden sledge.