Schrämer

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Schrämer is an old word for the miner / miner and is no longer used today; One of his initial work in the mining of harder rock was the so-called cutting . This describes the hewing of a narrow slit called Schram (m.) Or Schramm .

The critical tool is the so-called Schrämers. Schrämeisen . When mining softer material such as salt, it is not necessary to cut a scrap, so the miner is no longer a "scraper" in this case. If, on the other hand, the activity of a cutter is essentially limited to this preparatory work, he is referred to as a cutter.