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At work, the miner of the Middle Ages in Europe wore the normal costume for his local region – pit trousers (Grubenhose), shoes and miner's jacket (Bergkittel).. Only gradually was the typical miner's uniform created by the addition of unmistakable elements of miner's apparel such as the miner's apron (Arschleder), knee pads (Kniebügel), miner's cap (Fahrhaube or Fahrkappe, later pit hat ...
Freiberg is a university and former mining town in Saxony, Germany, with around 41,000 inhabitants.The city lies in the foreland of the Ore Mountains, in the Saxon urbanization axis, which runs along the northern edge of the Elster and Ore Mountains, stretching from Plauen in the southwest via Zwickau, Chemnitz and Freiberg to Dresden in the northeast.
A young German girl in dirndl watching boys playing. German traditional costume, including the dirndl, was instrumentalized by the Nazis as a symbol of pan-German identity in the countries under Nazi rule (Germany from 1933, Austria from 1938). [13] The dirndl was used to promote the Nazi ideal of the German woman as hard-working and fertile.
Miners' parade in Marienberg in the Ore Mountains on the 3rd Advent Sunday in 2005 (with the Bergknapp- und Brüderschaft "Glück Auf" society from Frohnau).. The Miners' Parade is a parade traditionally held in places in Austria and Germany where ore was and is smelted.
Braddock Run begins near Eckhart Mines. [4] The town was founded as a company town for the nearby Eckhart Mines. According to the Maryland Mining Heritage Guide, it was "the first coal company town in Maryland." [5] The original owner was George Eckhardt, an immigrant from Germany.
Montreal was originally incorporated as the Village of Hamilton, [7] on or about 1917, and was the first village formed in Iron County. [8]Montreal, as it was named upon its incorporation as a city on April 1, 1924, [7] was named for the Montreal Mining Company, which had several iron ore mines in the area during the late 1800s.
The German Mining Museum in Bochum (German: Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum) or DBM is one of the most visited museums in Germany with around 365,700 visitors per year (2012). [1] It is the largest mining museum in the world, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and a renowned research establishment for mining history .
In 1863, German mining engineer Herman Ehrenberg was hired to survey a new townsite along the Colorado River, approximately 6 miles (10 km) from La Paz, Arizona. The town, named Mineral City , began to grow in 1866, after a new landing was established there, supported by the steamboat captains of the George A. Johnson Company.