Luck’ worked until 1931 and became a museum in the 1970s. The workings were connected to the Tiefen Sachsen drainage tunnel, which was dug around 1600. The mine’s name goes back to at least 1681 and refers

The industrialisation of Saxony is based on mining which already started in the 10th century, thus creating capital and early technological expertise – a history that is particularly told by historica

it merged with museums in Leipzig and Dresden to form the Staatliche Ethnographische Sammlungen Sachsen.