Gold panning: Austria & Rauris
The golden village in the Rauris Valley
4.000 years ago gold was discovered in Rauris. Gold panning in Austria and Rauris looks back on a long history: to this day hopeful gold diggers are trying to spot the shiny metal at the gold panning areas in the Rauris Valley.
Already the Romans have come to Rauris for gold panning in Austria. At the end of the 14th century gold guilders were minted for their first time from Tauern gold for Salzburg and the high time of underground mining started. Above the Kolm Saigurn in approximately 2000metres above sea-level the remains of the old mining town can be seen. Tunnels, water powered elevators, mountain forges, mine dumps and the varlets’ houses, which during the 15th and 16th century housed the mountain varlets, who had to bring the gold to the surface from the depths of the Tauern Mountain.
130 kilometres of tunnels and shafts were built into the mountains to reach the highly desired metal. Follow the tracks of the gold and follow the Rauris Tauern Gold Round hike for an excursion back into a golden and powerful past.
Gold panning in Austria: Gold mining in Rauris
Rauris turned into a medieval colonization with more than 3.000 inhabitants during the 14th century. At this time mine workers panned more than 50 kilograms of gold per year in Rauris. 10 per cent of the global gold resource was secured in Rauris. The Pinzgau local Ignaz Rojacher was the lawful proprietor of the Rauris Gold Mine and brought another gold rush to Rauris. Rojacher is also the founding father of the Weather observatory at the Hohen Sonnblick. Even today hopefuls come to Rauris to try their luck at the gold panning places of Bodenhaus, Heimalm and Sportalm to look for the shiny metal.
Gold panning in Austria: Rauris is an ideal destination. Enquire online now and find out more about the gold panning places near Hotel Rauriserhof in Austria.
