The tunnel mouth hole

 

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Item no. 202/26/1 (size: 53 cm x 34 cm) with 5 electric candles and electric backlight

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Item no. 202/56/1 (size: 53 cm x 34 cm) with 5 electric candles and electric backlight

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Item no. 202/56/4 "Johannisstollen zu Seiffen" according to Agricola (size: 53 cm x 34 cm) with 5 electric candles and electric backlight

 

In mining, it is called a tunnel when there is a horizontal passage from the surface of the earth into the interior of the mountain for the purpose of mining. The usually arched gallery entrance is referred to as the tunnel mouth hole in the miner's language. For the miner, this “gate into the interior of the mountain” was of enormous importance since it had also been the entrance of daylight into the darkness of the earth. Often, the tunnel mouth hole is also being connected with the history and development of Christmas Arches. This is due to the great appreciation of the light by those miners working in the dark those days. This was particularly evident when the miners gathered on "Mine Christmas Eve" for their Mettenschicht (an old German mining custom) in the hut houses.

It was customary for them to place their burning miner's lamps either on top of the arched tunnel mouth hole or hang it up a semicircle at the wall indicating the tunnel mouth hole inside the hut house. Whether this custom is the actual starting point for the origin of the Ore Mountains Christmas Arch is not clearly documented. Hence, this significant tunnel mouth hole and the miners coop as typical mining attributes are key design elements of our Christmas Arches. Against the scenery of the toy village of Seiffen, we display the different scenes of the challenging miners work underground. In particular, the Christmas arch "Johannisstollen zu Seiffen" (article no. 202/56/4) refers to the former tin mining in Seiffen.


 

 

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Item no. 202/97/5 (size: 53 cm x 34 cm) with 5 electric candles and electric backlight

 

 

 

 

 

 

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