002.454.Idrija

Idrija Municipal Museum, Prelovčeva 9, SI-5280 Idrija

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Municipality of Idrija, Mestni trg 1, SI-5280 Idrija

Professional Library of Idrija Municipal Museum, M-122

Mine, Knowledge, social care

The booklet is small with paperback covers. The cover has a double frame with a title in two languages, German and Slovene: Dienst-Ordnung für das Aufsichts- und Arbeiter- Personale der k. k. Berg Direktion Idria./ Službeni red za paznike in delalce c. kr. rudniške direkcije v Idriji. The mining symbols, a hammer and chisel wrapped in a bow, are drawn under the titles of both versions. The publication has 28 pages and it was printed by the Blaznik printing house in Ljubljana. The mining order has 61 articles. The content is divided into three main chapters: General Provisions (scope of work, working methods, criminal sanctions), Decisions for prison guards and Decisions regarding workers. Some articles interfere in the workers’ personal sphere, for example: the right to marry or behaviour in public outside working hours.

Length 20.2 cm, width 14.5 cm, height 0.4 cm.

Paper, cardboard.

1872

Imperial Royal Mining Directorate Idrija in the composition of higher mining officials (Lipold, Grübler, Exeli, Onderka), confirmed by the Imperial-Royal District Mining Office in Ljubljana (Šalša).

Due to the special and dangerous circumstances of work within industries, legal relations, which regulated miners’ duties and rights in the mining judiciary and mining, were formed as early as in the high Middle Ages. The following mining orders were applied in the Idrija Mercury Mine in past centuries: Maksimilijan’s (1517), Ferdinand’s (1553), Karl’s Mining Order for Goriška and Carniola (1577), Karl’s Mining Order for Idrija (6/4/1580) and the State’s Mining Law (23/4/1854). Technological and social progress and political conditions no longer allowed only official proclamations which were published in the call room. Therefore, from the 1870s, the Mine Administration began to issue printed working orders for the mine workers: employees in the pit, smelting plant, cinnabar plant, auxiliary plants, administration and in management. The content included: general provisions regarding employment forms, the scope and methods of work for the workers and guards and criminal provision for different violations. Legal relations between the miners and the state in earlier issues of the mining order also express the gradual increase of miners’ social rights.

The booklet is being preserved, secured and presented as important mining heritage of Idrija with exceptional universal values. It is kept in the collection of library material (in analogue and digital form). It is available for researchers and the wider interested public. It can be used for mercury heritage promotions. Mining orders provide an insight into legal relations, obligations and rights and social position of all the workers of Idrija Mercury Mine. Due to a bilingual issue in German and Slovene, the mining order also offers an interesting insight into the development of professional mining terminology.

Imperial Royal Mining Directorate Idrija.

Professional Library of Idrija Municipal Museum.

The book is well preserved, with a few stains on its cover. Additional interventions are not necessary. Security of the premises is ensured.

good

Regular seasonal maintenance.

- Inventory Book of the Idrija Municipal Museum library.

Mestni muzej Idrija

Miha Kosmač

20. 3. 2018

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