Miner's axe
The miner's axe (German: Bergbarte, Bergparte) is a ceremonial axe serving as a part of the German miner's habit donned for miners' parades.[1][2]
It is a small axe with the long top tapering to a point and a long handle.[3]
It is also called colloquially "Barte" or "Parte", which is a medieval term for axe in general. The word is preserved, e.g., in Hellebarde, "halberd".[4]
Miner's parade
Various axes
Ulrich von Jungingen assaulted with a miner's axe[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 Ulrich von Jungingen zabity bartą górniczą?!
- ↑ Three ceremonial miner’s axes, Pitt Rivers Museum
- ↑ Die Bergbarte
- ↑ Bart (des Schlüssels) – Barte, Brockhaus Conversations-Lexikon
Further reading
[edit]- Über den Ursprung der Bergbarte In: Mitteilungen des Freiberger Altertumsvereins, Vol. 52, 1917, pp. 87–92
