Prices
Ticket sale: 10 min before tour starts
Ticket shop: entrance of mining museum
Card/mobile payment: possible
Price per person with / without guest card
Adults: 8,00 € / 9,00 €
Reduced*: 6,00 € / 6,00 €
Children (5-15 yrs): 4,00 € / 4,50 €
School classes from 20 pers.: 4,00 €
Free: children <5 yrs & Harz-Card owners
Age restriction: none
* students (over 15 years), apprentices, disabled people, unemployed people
Opening times
Open: Mon - Sun
Mine visit: only allowed in a guided tour
Guided tours: 11:00 & 14:30
Duration tour + museum: 60 + 30 min
Registration: not necessary
Additional guided tours (also in English):
only with reservation
Please use our registration form
Minimum price: 110,00 €
01.11.-30.11.: closed
01.12.-30.12.: open Tue - Sat
31.12.: open til 13:00
24.12./25.12./01.01.: closed
Information
Mining museum: included (at end of tour)
Temperature in pit: actual 8° C
Stairs: 88 steps with railing
Mediaguide EN DK NL: for free
Toilettes: opposite site of sport field
Pushchairs: allowed only overground
Dogs: allowed with reservation
Photography: allowed for private use
Free-WiFi: Samson_free_WiFi
Am Samson 2
37444 St. Andreasberg
fon: +49 (0)5582 1249
email: info@grube-samson.de
"Of tightrope artists and free riders"
The Samson pit presents the historic Upper Harz ore mining industry and its hydroelectric power supply. Originally preserved mining technology such as water wheels or the art of driving still impress today. Almost all areas of the mine can even be visited by people with reduced mobility. In addition to the shaft building and the water wheel houses, an 88 meter long tunnel is also accessible to visitors. The tour ends in the mine museum.
We offer guided tours in English for groups by prior arrangement. Individual guests can take part in the public tours in German and use our free media guide, which offers the mine tour in EN, NL and DK. All information about the media guide can be found here
Longer underground journeys are possible in the Catharina Neufang mine, the sister mine of the Samson mine (actually closed due to maintenance). Here, in the narrow and winding mining areas, guests get a deeper insight into mining from the 16th century. If you want to be even more adventurous, you can go even deeper into the mountain with the colleagues from the Roter Bär mine... up to the real limit experience.