Since March 2014, the Huthaus has been home to a restaurant and guesthouse. In our restaurant we will spoil you with Ore Mountain hospitality and home-style, regional cuisine.
The hat house or colliery house is the central building of a mine. The term "Huthaus" is derived from the mine foreman known as the "Hutmann". It was an administration building, material store, mine chamber, workshop and dwelling all in one. The location depended on the size of the mine. In smaller mines, the hat house was usually located near the shaft or the tunnel mouth. It was not uncommon for the shaft to end in the hat house. The hat house usually had two, occasionally three floors and had a rider with a bell, weather vane and clock on its roof. On the ground floor was the hat room, which served as the hatter's office. In addition to the hat room, there was often a prayer room with an altar and organ. The Gezähestube housed the Geleucht and Gezähe (the miner's tools). The ore dressing room and the mine forge were also often located in the hat house. The upper floors housed the miner's and head miner's apartments and occasionally dormitories for the miners. The hat house was the miners' central meeting room, where they gathered before and after each shift in the hat room or prayer room for prayer and reading (attendance). A small service was held by the hatter before entering the mine. The miners were called to their shift and the end of the shift was announced with the bell in the tower of the hat house:
The little bell rings, the morning dawns, it gets loud in the miner's hut, because when the work calls, the shift calls, the good miner doesn't miss it... "Moritz Döring,Bergmannsgruß, 1831"
Beer was often allowed to be served and tobacco sold in the hat houses. Traces of mining can still be found today directly at the hat house on the "Red Ridge", the most important geological natural monument in the district of Aue - Schwarzenberg.
