Pit boy
A miner boy , also called a mountain boy , was a young miner who was deployed underground in mining until the 19th century for auxiliary work.
activities
The mine boys were assigned to cleaning work depending on their physical fitness and operational needs, or they were used as helpers in the extraction process. Less strong mine boys were used as so-called clean boys (miner clean, "clean, keep in order"). They had to carry out cleaning work in the routes and shafts. They were also used to pre-sort the ore underground. They were also often an experienced Hauer given to make him handouts or to perform under his direction the first Hauer activities. The more powerful mine boys were used in the haulage or in some cases as helpers in the mine . Here they performed work such as slinging loads or operating the reel .
Professional background
First, a pit boy had to first mining basic knowledge on the vagina Bank as vagina Boy acquire. Depending on the mountain area , he was then used to work underground at the age of 14, in some areas only at the age of 15. As a miner boy he then worked until he was 18, in some mining districts even until he was 23. Then he was employed as a miner . Depending on his suitability, he could then learn the activities of the mason as an apprentice and later work as a mason himself.
Working hours and wages
The daily working time was 9 hours. Clean boys worked in shifts and had to work 12 to 15 shifts within 14 days. Funding helpers worked in thought and had to move 18 shifts. For their work, mine boys received between 4.7 and 5.1 Mariengroschen per shift, depending on the mining area . They could earn between 4 and 6 pfennigs an hour by reworking and doing additional work by the hour. However, they also had to use the wages they earned to pay for their work clothes and up to four pfennigs per shift for the oil in their lights .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mining terms ( Memento of the original dated November 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (last accessed on January 26, 2015).
- ^ A b c d e Carl Langheld: The conditions of the miners in the Saxon shelf mining. Published by JG Engelhardt, Freiberg 1855, p. 32.
- ↑ a b c d e Berthold Sigismund: Life pictures from the Saxon Ore Mountains. Carl B. Lork's publishing house, Leipzig 1859, p. 58.
- ↑ a b c Moritz Süßmilch gen. Hörning: The Ore Mountains in prehistory, past and present . Second cheap people's edition, Hermann Grafer's Verlag, Annaberg 1894, pp. 309–310.
- ^ Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with evidence. Published by Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871, p. 282.
