Miner's cow
In the background the Marienhospital Herne
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Bergmannskuh was jokingly called the domestic goat in the Ruhr area and Saarland , but also in Siegerland and is a white German noble goat . In the mining districts of the Ore Mountains, the name Schachtziesch was also used . Here mostly color varieties of the Erzgebirge goat breed were kept. In the former Lugau-Oelsnitz coalfield in particular, legends about the use of goats underground are still alive today.
Goat farming helped provide the miners and their relatives with milk . The row houses with gardens allowed the families to keep a pet, usually a goat or a pig . For many mining families, livestock and fruit and vegetable cultivation were necessary in order to supplement the meager wages, especially in the early days of mining in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Since many of the workers came from rural areas, they also had the knowledge needed to keep livestock.
In the core areas of the Saar district, the districts of Saarbrücken and Ottweiler , 6,868 of the almost 22,000 goats of the Trier administrative district were kept at the beginning of the 1860s . In 1816, 3,419 goats were counted in the administrative district.
Monuments
A monument in Herne is intended to commemorate the economic situation in earlier mining times and was acquired by the city in 1960 by the sculptor Hubert Nietsch . A "miner's cow with two kids" stands by the town hall of Dudweiler , made from 1993 to 1995 based on designs by the artist Franz Mörscher .
In art
sculpture
- Bergmannskuh in a revision from the years 2003/04 by the artist Franz Mörscher
- Schachtziesch bronze sculpture by the artist Janusz Radke in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. 2008,
- Miner's cow bronze sculpture by the sculptor Erik Neukirchner in Oelsnitz / Erzgeb. , 2018, winner of an artistic ideas competition
In painting
- 1935: Miner's cow as an oil painting on canvas by Fritz Zolnhofer (74.5 cm × 84.5 cm)
- Jürgen Eibach dedicated a painting to The Miner's Cow
In music
- The chanson singer Maegie Koreen dedicated a musical contribution to the "Bergmannskuh"
In the literature
- Fred Endrikat : The miner's cow. Poem in four sentences
literature
- Wolfgang Stoessel, Björn Steffens: Miner's cow & raspberry spar. The Siegerland mining industry. The explanatory book. Amadeusmedien, Betzdorf 2004, ISBN 3-9808936-7-7 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Klaus Michael Mallmann, Horst Steffens: reward of effort. History of the miners on the Saar. CH Beck, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-406-33988-3 , p. 37.
- ↑ 100 objects Herne (49) ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 8, 2014
- ↑ Location of the monument in Herne: 51 ° 31 ′ 46.9 ″ N , 7 ° 13 ′ 31.6 ″ E
- ↑ Figure , accessed on February 6, 2014
- ↑ [1] , accessed on December 1, 2016
- ↑ [2] , accessed on December 1, 2016
- ↑ Figure of the miner's cow , accessed on February 8, 2014
- ↑ "Traumblicke" invite you to dream. , accessed February 8, 2014
- ↑ Mensch, Ruhrpott , accessed on February 8, 2014
- ↑ A greeting from home by the poet Fred Endikat , accessed on February 8, 2014
