Assessment of underground mining influences in the area of historic church building

Abstract

The paper presents a case study of the influence of performed mining exploitation on a historic church building and provides a prediction of the effects of the planned exploitation. Due to properly designed and performed structural protections of the building, the exploitation without causing damages to the building’s structure was possible. The calculation results indicate that also the planned exploitation should not induce any structural damages to the building. The presented example exhibits the fact that exploitation is possible in areas of this type of buildings if adequate protections are applied and extraction field locations are correctly planned.