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Early on the morning of Friday, June 16 1967, a fire broke out in the miners’ upper dormitory at St.Martin am Schneeberg. About 80 men were sleeping there, but they all managed to get out in time and save their belongings. However, the building, including the main kitchen, dining-room, bathrooms, leisure room, shop, and compressor unit, were all destroyed. The firemen, arriving one by one from Moos in Passeier and Mareit, were only able to stop the flames from spreading to nearby buildings.
The circumstances of this fire were never entirely clarified. Officially, mention was made of a short circuit in the nearby stables. But the suspicion, quite soundly based, of arson by a group of workers who did not want to remain at Schneeberg any longer was never proven.
In any case, the life of the mining village was only slightly shortened by the fire. On that same day, most of the workers left the mine and moved to new lodgings at Maiern.
Thus it was that what for centuries had been the highest mine and mining village in the whole of Europe were finally abandoned.
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