Image Copyright: Wolfgang Buttkus

Coal mining started around 1540�at the�Reinsdorfer Flur. After only a few sporadic excavations and diggings in the 17th century coal became a sought-after solid fuel in the 18th/19th century.

The shaft tower of the Morgensternschacht II�as witness of the coal mining� in Reinsdorf is well visible. The Heimatverein, founded on the 3rd of�July 1997 made it his goal to protect the cultural heritage of the village. The shaft tower�has been rebuilt as�a local and mining museum.

The tower itself shows on four floors exhibitions on mining, village history and agriculture.

Image Copyright: Wolfgang Buttkus

At the pit bank typical miner's tools are being exhibited.�

Image Copyright: Wolfgang Buttkus

The miner's�most important companion is his pit lamp. A range of typical mining lamps is being exhibited�at the 1st floor.

On the 19th of April 1882 the Bergrat Prof. Kreischer in Freiberg hands over a fossil to Herr Geinitz in Dresden, which is part of the rarest and most interesting ever�occurrences in the area of coal formations.

This fossil was found from�in cross-cut in a depth of 600m of the� Morgensternschacht II (museum). The visitor will find more detailed documentation about this�"pseudo scorpion" at the fossil exhibition in the� museum.