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From: Sherron Nay <>
Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] (1488)Germanna Colonies, History of
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2003 09:52:20 -0500
References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021002052010.02322028@mail.pipeline.com>


John,
I printed these notes but only got back to reading them carefully now -
sorry. I went into the German Life archive and typed in Nicholas Corder and
got one article but not the one you cited. I suspect there is a mistake in
the archive indexing. Could you send the name date of the article.
Also, how expensive are the Rober Rabe books?
Sherron Nay
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From: "John Blankenbaker" <>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 4:23 AM
Subject: [GERMANNA] (1488)Germanna Colonies, History of


> The fourteen hundred and eighty-eighth note in a series on the Germanna
> Colonies
>
> The recent notes about the guild system were inspired by Robert Rabe, a
> Professor of German at Chapman University. He has published two volumes of
> German Professions of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. He sells
> these and contact with him can be made at 14466 Sunrise Drive NE,
> Bainbridge, WA 98110.
>
> In the last issue of German Life, a magazine, there is an article by
> Nicholas Corder about a group of German miners who led the way in England
> in developing an industrial society. The area in England in which they
> practiced their calling was the Lake District. The time was the reign of
> Queen Elizabeth I. The more exact locality was Keswick. Copper was badly
> needed but England lacked the expertise to mine the mineral deep
> underground. Besides a national need for copper, the crown earned a
> percentage of the minerals that were mined. Nine-tenths of the gold and
> silver were taken by the crown and lessor amounts for the other metals.
>
> England, especially as led by the crown, decided to turn to German miners
> from Franconia in Germany. These people were considered to be the best
> miners in the world. The Society of Mines Royal was founded as a means of
> enticing German experts to take over the management of mining throughout
> the kingdom. A group of miners from Augsburg, under the leadership of
> Daniel Höchstetter arrived in the valleys around Keswick in June 1564.
They
> very quickly found rich veins of copper. They brought with them
> technologies that were unknown to the Brits.
>
> The Germans applied names they knew to the countryside, to the mines, and
> all aspects of the enterprise. Because the Germans kept to themselves,
used
> their own language, and enjoyed special privileges, friction broke out
> between the Brits and the Germans. The local girls were not put off by
the
> foreign language. They noted the Germans earned more. Feelings ran
strongly
> and one German was killed.
>
> The Germans bought an island in a lake on which to make their homes. Here
> they built houses, a brewery, a bake house, a pigeon cote, and a windmill.
> They planted a garden and orchard also. But the island was small and they
> couldn't keep animals. Without them, they lacked manure for the garden and
> orchard. They solved this by buying manure from a nearby estate. They had
> to move it to the island in the winter when the lake was frozen.
>
> There were several mines. At the largest, the facilities included the
> workshops, assay chambers, smelting houses, smithies, and bathhouses. It
> was believed to be the largest pithead in England and possibly in Europe.
>
> John Blankenbaker
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>
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