On 9 April 2025 the kick-off event of the project "Silver Route" took place in Klášterec nad Ohří (CZ). Among the participants were the District governor of the Erzgebirgskreis (Rico Anton) and the mayor of Karlocy Vary (Andrea Pfeffer Ferklová), further representatives of local municipalities as well as the project partners. The event was... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
During a meeting of the ArchaeoTin partners on April 7th and 8th, 2025, in Teplice (CZ), the participants exchanged on new learning regarding the beginning and unfolding of tin mining in the Ore Mountain range. The exchange also addressed suitable scientific methods and the presentation of results during a travelling exhibition that will be... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
core-consult has won the open tender to support the implementation of the cross-border project Silver Route as external project and finance management. The project's Lead partner is the Tourism Association Erzgebirge based in Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany. The project has been selected as a strategic project of the Saxon-Czech... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Tourism
On September 23rd and 24th, 2024, partners of the project ArchaeoTin met in Eibenstock, Germany, to discuss the first results of their joint research efforts to better understand when and how tin mining in the Ore Mountains has developed. They furthermore discussed the concept for a travelling exhibition that will bring the learning closer to the... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
On 14 June 2024, the ArchaeoTin project and its findings were presented during the 2nd Day of Mining Archaeology at the Saxony State Office for Archaeology. The project’s partners from Germany and the Czech republic furthermore contributed with additional presentations on the history of mining in Bohemia and... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
The second meeting of the ArchaeoTin partners took place on March 19th and 20th, 2024, in Boží Dar (CZ). During the event the participants exchanged about the first findings and upcoming activities of the project's scientific partners, which research the origins of tin mining in the Ore Mountains, which began already in the Bronze Age.... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
The ArchaeoTin projects aims to answer the question about the beginning of first mining activities in the Ore Mountains after archeologists were able to date first excravation activities to the Bronze age. During their kick-off meeting on September 11th and 12th, 2023, in Dresden, the project partners discussed how they will collaborate in... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage
Among the first projects approved for funding from the new Interreg programme for cross-border cooperation between Saxony and the Czech Republic is "ArchaeoTin", which had been elaborated with support of core-consult. The Saxon State Office for Archaeology as Lead partner and six other institutions from Germany and the Czech Republic will... read more
Program: Saxony-Czech Republic
Since 2019 the Mountain Region Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří has the status of a UNESCO World Heritage site, including lesser known sites such as the former mining region of Vrch Mĕdník (Kupferberg). In the project "ArchaeoMontan @ School" the Saxon State Office of Archaeology and the Institute for Archaeology Most (UAPP) aim to make their knowledge... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Education
Last week the Monitoring Committee of the INTERREG Cross-border cooperation programme between Saxony and the Czech Republic 2014-2020 has approved the project "Archaeomontan @ School" for funding. Under the reservation of available funds the project will begin its implementation in summer 2021. In the elaboration of the successful project... read more
Topic: Cultural heritage, Education