Hornstatt

Early depiction of a Heinzenkunst with Hornstatt ( Georgius Agricola , Berckwerck Buch , 1580)

Hornstatt with two-man reel, Glasebach pit , Harzgerode 2013 (reconstructed)

Hornstatt in the Tsumeb mine, German South West Africa , around 1910

Hornstatt , Hornstätte , Hofstatt or Püttenstatt is the name given to the underground space hewn around the reel in mining .

Origin of name

The name is derived from the old name horn or hasp horn for the handles of the reel. The original meaning of the Hornstatt is the space created for the free rotation of the reel horns, later the area also became the place “where the miners chat with each other”.

description

In pre-industrial mining, remote shafts were used to extract from the deeper levels , because the lifting height of a hand reel was only around 30–50 meters. The shafts usually followed the collapse of the passage, they took tons . The horizontal pits, such as tunnels or geotechnical lines , were only hewn out with mallets and iron in the minimal profile, which was not sufficient to install a reel, to operate the line conveyance past it and to provide work space for the reel workers. For this reason, a widening was created in the area of the reel, the Hornstatt.

The terms are used to this day for carved areas with the same or a similar function. The Austrian General Mountain Police Ordinance stipulates in Section 39 (2) that workers in sinking works at risk of flooding are to be secured with a rope from the “Püttenstatt”. In § 68 (1) it says: "Reel rooms and brake stations (Hornstätten) must be spacious enough that the reels and brakes can be operated unhindered and safely".

Individual evidence

^ Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Hornstatt. In: Same: German Dictionary . Volume 4, 2, Verlag von S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877 ( online at archive.org, accessed on February 17, 2014).
^ Carl Schraml: The development of Upper Austrian salt mining in the 16th and 17th centuries. With special consideration of the three Reformation dragonflies. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 83, Oberösterreichischer Musealverein, Linz 1930, pp. 153–242, here p. 232 ( digitized on ZOBODAT , accessed on February 17, 2014).
^ Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with evidence. Verlag von Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871, Lemma Hornstatt , pp. 275–276 ( Online , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (PDF, approx. 225 MB), accessed on February 17, 2014).
↑ Without author: Ordinance of the Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction of April 2, 1959 on the measures to be taken in mining operations to protect the life and health of people and to protect property (General Mountain Police Ordinance), version of August 6, 2013 ( online PDF 430 kB, accessed on February 17, 2014).

[Grimm-1] Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm : Hornstatt. In: Same: German Dictionary . Volume 4, 2, Verlag von S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877 ( online at archive.org, accessed on February 17, 2014).

[Schraml-2] Carl Schraml: The development of Upper Austrian salt mining in the 16th and 17th centuries. With special consideration of the three Reformation dragonflies. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 83, Oberösterreichischer Musealverein, Linz 1930, pp. 153–242, here p. 232 ( digitized on ZOBODAT , accessed on February 17, 2014).

[Veith-3] Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with evidence. Verlag von Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871, Lemma Hornstatt , pp. 275–276 ( Online , Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (PDF, approx. 225 MB), accessed on February 17, 2014).

[ÖAB-4] Without author: Ordinance of the Federal Ministry for Trade and Reconstruction of April 2, 1959 on the measures to be taken in mining operations to protect the life and health of people and to protect property (General Mountain Police Ordinance), version of August 6, 2013 ( online PDF 430 kB, accessed on February 17, 2014).