002.455.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-625

Mine, Knowledge, social care

The booklet is small with hardback covers. The cover with yellow and blue pattern does not bear the title. The edge and the spine are made of brown fabric, the spine bears a German title of the issue: Dienst-Ordnung. There is a German title on the left side of the inner cover: Dienst-Ordnung für das Aufsichts- und Arbeiter-Personale der k. k. Berg Direktion Idria, and the Slovenian version on the right side: Službeni red za paznike in delalce c. kr. rudniške direkcije v Idriji. Under both titles, there is a mining symbol – hammer and chisel. The Slovenian cover has a seal of a Habsburg double-headed eagle impressed over the hammer and chisel symbol and also the inscription K K BERGDIREKTION IDRIA. The publication has 67 numbered pages in total. The unnumbered blank sheets were added between the chapters in the middle of the original book, which were later filled with a manuscript. It was printed in the Ig printing house in Ljubljana. The mining order has 60 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.

Length 20.2 cm, width 14.9 cm, height 0.9 cm.

Paper, cardboard.

1882

Imperial Royal Mining Directorate Idrija (Lipold), confirmed by Imperial-Royal District Mining Office in Ljubljana (Haberer)

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 booklet is well preserved. 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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