On the Austrian border, near Sopron, lies Brennberg, the small mining community where coal was first mined in Hungary as early as 1759.

The coal mine belonged to the city and was rented out. At the beginning of the 1800s, the Austrian Treasury acquired the tenancy law, and later from 1840 onwards, Knight von Wartinberg Henrik Drasche was the tenant.

After his death in 1881, the rent came into the possession of Brennbergi Kőszénbánya Rt., Whose shareholders also acquired the Ritzinger mine in 1903.

The joint-stock company came into the interest of Urikány – Zsilvölgyi Magyar Kőszénbánya Rt. [Urikány. Zsilvölgyer Hungarian Coal Mine Ag.], which founded a new company in 1913 under the name Sopronvidéki Kőszénbánya Rt.

On December 9, 1928, the Urikány-Zsilvölgyi Magyar Kőszénbánya Rt. and the Sopronvidéki Kőszénbánya Rt. were combined, so they became the main tenants of the mine.

On January 1, 1946, the Brennberg operation was put under state administration, and in early 1952 the dismantling of the mine began and ended on December 24th.