Jump to content

Miner's cap

Edit links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is an old revision of this page, as edited by Frietjes (talk | contribs) at 14:55, 13 October 2016. The present address (URL) is a permanent link to this revision, which may differ significantly from the current revision.

Medieval miners descending into the shaft (by Agricola)

The miner's cap (German: Fahrhaube) is part of the traditional miner's costume. It consists of a white material (linen) and served in the Middle Ages to protect the miner when descending below ground (unter Tage). Later it was replaced by the miner's hat (Fahrhut or Schachthut), from which the leather cap or helmet were developed and subsequently today's mining helmets.

See also

Literature

  • Karl-Ewald Fritzsch; Friedrich Sieber (1957) (in German), Bergmännische Trachten des 18.Jahrhunderts im Erzgebirge und im Mansfeldischen, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, pp. 79 
Stub icon

This article about mining is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Miner%27s_cap&oldid=744169322"