Bergakademie TU Freiberg

Short tour of the main building The Bergakademie was founded in 1765 and is the world’s oldest still-existing mining science educational institution.

Palace Freudenstein with „Terra Mineralia“ (world´s greatest mineral show)

The minerals shown at terra mineralia are provided by the “Pohl-Ströher Mineralienstiftung”. The collection of Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher is regarded as one of the most valuable and significant private collections worldwide. The richness of colour and the shapes of the excellently formed crystals overwhelm visitors. These magnificent minerals from all over the world are a delight for laymen and collectors alike. The collection consists of both historic and new collection sites.

Former Silver Mines „Alte Elisabeth“ or „Reiche Zeche”

The tour presents 500 years of mining history and partly still functioning mining technology and – an organ!

Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Duration: Full day

Price: 140 Euro / Person incl. lunch

Minimum persons: 15

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UNESCO World Heritage Site: Old Town with Kaiserpfalz and slate roofs and former Ore Mine Rammelsberg

For more than 1000 years ore deposits were mined at the Rammelsberg mine; making it one of the largest continuously mined ore deposits in the world. It is a witness to the history of mining and rightly became Germany’s first UNESCO World Heritage Site of technology. On display are impressive monuments to mining spanning over nine centuries and exciting testimonies of human labour, which visitors can experience in a variety of tours above and below ground. In the 200-year-old Roeder Gallery, you walk through the narrow shaft passing the impressive wooden water wheels via the Radstuben (wheel chamber). Take the mine train through the Richt Shaft to see the machinery of modern mining. Here you can still see firsthand the conditions under which the miners did their work, which was always hard and dangerous despite all the technology. Immerse yourself in the colourful 800-year-old Rathstiefste Gallery, during a 4-hour adventure tour, which is concluded with a hearty miner’s meal underground. Above ground is one of the most exciting museums of mining in Europe.

Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Duration: Full day

Price: 130 Euro / Person incl. lunch

Minimum persons: 15

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Potsdam and Park Sanssouci

With history and special explanations to the natural stones and their restoration

German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) on Telegraph Hill

Several observatories were built on the hill in the 19th century, and today it is home to the Albert Einstein Science Park, including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the GFZ . It is also called “the most beautiful science campus on the continent“.

Date: Thursday, 13 July 2023

Duration: Full day

Price: 70 Euro / Person incl. lunch

Minimum persons: 15

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UNESCO Geopark Muskauer Faltenbogen /
Luk Muzakowa

The Muskau Arch push moraine is situated around 120 km SE of Berlin, west and east of the border of Germany and Poland.  The Muskau Arch is a transnational Geopark.

The Geopark territory is situated in the Spree-Neisse-Bober / Neiße-Nisa-Nysa Euroregions. Flowing from south to north and forming the border to the Republic of Poland, the Lusatian Neisse makes a remarkably deep incision in the plain, its terraces defining the area of the Arch along with the post-mining landscape resulting from the commercial use of the geological features. Declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2004, the Fürst-Pückler-Park in Bad Muskau is located in the Saxony part of the Geopark. The geological structure of the Muskau Arch and its immediate hinterland constitute the territory of the Geopark. It is a horseshoe-shaped lobe extending approx. 22 km from west to east and approx. 20 km from north to south. The Lusatia border wall is one of the morphological Quaternary ice rims in North Germany. It is the main ice rim of the earlier Saale Ice Age.

Date: Tuesday, 18 July 2023

Duration: Full day

Price: 110 Euro / Person incl. lunch

Minimum persons: 15

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Morsleben repository in a former salt mine

It is located 100 km west of Berlin. Around 37,000 m³ of low and intermediate-level waste with negligible heat generation were permanently stored here between 1971 and 1991 and from 1994 to 1998. Small quantities of radioactive waste were also stored intermediately in the mine.

The former salt mine Morsleben does not meet today’s criteria for a repository, but it can be safely closed in accordance with current legal regulations. The legal closure of the repository has already been applied for.

Date: Wednesday, 19 July 2023

Duration: Full day

Price: 100 Euro / Person incl. lunch

Minimum persons: 15

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Leibnitz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries

Germany’s largest and one of the leading international research centres for freshwaters. Here, hydrologists, biogeochemists, physicists, microbiologists, evolutionary ecologists, fish ecologists and fisheries biologists from all over the world are working under one roof.

Historical waterworks

Time travel into the historical water supply and urban drainage of Berlin. Here you can experience nature, architecture and technology at an original 19th century site.

Date: Wednesday, 12 July 2023

Time: 13:00

Duration: Half day

Price: 10 Euro / Person

Minimum persons: 10

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Historical waterworks

The oldest waterworks in Berlin to have been preserved as a complete facility.

The former Teufelssee waterworks is located in the middle of the Grunewald, on the banks of the Teufelssee lake. The buildings are largely preserved as they were in operation from 1872 – extended by additional buildings in 1890/92 and 1895 – until 1968. Essential parts of the technical equipment are also still in place.

Date: Thursday, 13 July 2023

Time: 14:00

Duration: Half day

Price: 5 Euro / Person

Minimum persons: 8

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Touristic City Tour

• Bus tour

Date: Thursday, 13 July 2023 & Friday, 14 July 2023

Time: 15:00

Duration: Half day

Price: 30 Euro / Person

Minimum persons: 10

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The Historical Centre

Town Palace/Humboldtforum, Museum Island and Berlin Dom – History, building history with special attention to the natural stones.

Date: Wednesday, 17 July 2023 & Thursday, 18 July 2023

Time: 13:00

Duration: Half day

Price: 25 Euro / Person

Minimum persons: 10

Meeting point: The meeting point is at 13:00 near the fountain in the Lustgarten in front of the Berliner Dom.

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