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A ''Bergmeister'' () was a
mine Mine, mines, miners or mining may refer to: Extraction or digging *Miner, a person engaged in mining or digging *Mining, extraction of mineral resources from the ground through a mine Grammar *Mine, a first-person English possessive pronoun M ...
manager or foreman in German-speaking Europe who, along with the '' Bergvogt'', was one of the officials serving on a mining court (''Berggericht''). There were ''Bergmeisters'' in every
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in Germany. In Austria the ''Bergmeister'' was also called the ''Obristbergmeister''.Max Joseph Gritzner: ''Commentar der Ferdinandeischen Bergordnung vom Jahre 1553.'' Bei Praumüller und Seidel, Wien 1842


Sweden

In Sweden the titel ''Bergmästare'' has been known since 1347Jan-Olof Hedström: ''...igenom gode Ordningar och flitigt upseende...'' Bergsstaten,
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and is since 1630 a titel for persons responsible for the concession and creating of new mines in Sweden.


See also

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Bergordnung The Bergordnung were the mining regulations or law enacted in order to exercise the royal mining rights or ''Bergregal'' in central Europe in medieval times. See also * Bergrecht * Bergregal Literature * Hermann Brassert (ed.): ''Berg-Ordnu ...
* Bergrecht *
Bergregal The ''Bergregal'' () was the historic property rights (economics), right of ownership of mining law, untapped mineral resources in parts of German-speaking Europe; ownership of the ''Bergregal'' meant entitlement to the mineral rights, rights and ...


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