Solving hour
In early mining, a time period that was required for the end of a work shift and the start of the next shift by a new team of miners was referred to as the release hour or exchange hour . The term "release hour" was derived from the term "loose hour", which means free hour. Exchange hour was derived from the activity of taking turns.
application
The shift times were precisely regulated in early mining. The shift usually lasted either eight or twelve hours . It began at 4:00 a.m. or 5:00 a.m. and lasted, depending on the length of the shift, until 4:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. The start of the shift, the end of the shift and the break times were announced by a bell. At 11 a.m. work was interrupted and the miners had a one-hour break. During the break they drove for days . This period of time was known as the touch-up hour or the loosening hour. Another name for this period was the laying hour . During this time, the miners could have their meals or rest from work. In order to be able to use the miners' labor even more effectively, the day was divided into four shifts of six hours each, if necessary. The lesson then began with the shift change.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Explanatory dictionary of the technical terms and foreign words that occur in the mining industry, in metallurgy and in salt works, and technical art expressions that occur in salt works . Falkenberg'schen Buchhandlung publishing house, Burgsteinfurt 1869.
- ↑ a b c d e Heinrich Veith: German mountain dictionary with documents . Published by Wilhelm Gottlieb Korn, Breslau 1871.
- ↑ a b c d Johann Joachim Lange: Introduction to Mineralogia Metallvrgica in which the knowledge and processing of minerals in addition to mining is presented briefly and clearly . Bey Johann Jacob Curt, Halle 1770, pp. 194–196.
- ^ A b c Georg Engelhard von Löhneysen: Report from the mine. 1650, p. 241.