Schladming Mountain Letter

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In Schladming Mountain letter of 1408 which laid Schladming Bergrichter Leonhard Egkelzain the former process and customary rights of Schladming miners down in writing. The Schladminger Bergbrief achieved great historical importance as one of the first summaries of the rights of miners and was a model for later mountain regulations throughout Europe.

The Schladminger Bergbrief is also of legal interest because the rights it contained were not - as was customary at the time - mandated by the authorities, but were worked out by the miners (mountain judges and councilors) as a form of democratic self-administration.