Bergbausammlung Rotthausen

These are written records (files, books, company brochures etc.), which are found in practically all the recorded collections and museums, alongside the objects kept there.

Tools used in mining work. In German-speaking countries, the miner's toolset is known as a "Gezähe". (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

This object group encompasses mining-related map materials, including maps showing colliery sites or graphical representations based on surveys performed above and below ground, known as Grubenrisse [mine layouts].

Image, film and audio material particularly containing historical images of collieries and audio-visual documentation of underground mining work.

Miner’s lamps, a collective term used in mining for all lighting equipment used underground. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon, [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Objects in the areas of geology, mineralogy and palaeontology, frequently used to document the structure of various deposits

Meaning a miner's personal effects for use underground, and which do not directly serve as work tools. These might be the miner's lunch box or snuff pouch.

Uniforms worn by mining officials and miners on festive and formal occasions.

This is protective clothing designed to withstand the tough working conditions underground.

Extraction, loosening of coal and other deposit content from the hard rock with the aid of the extraction procedure. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Equipment for accidents and incidents, particularly firefighting appliances and mine rescue equipment.

Objects with a close connection to mining customs, miners’ associations as well as personal mementos

As lifelike, scaled-down replicas, models are used to explain the functional methods of technical plant and machinery.

Diorama, a plastic, painted rendering usually assembled within a display case and used as a teaching aid. (following: dtv-Brockhaus-Lexikon, 1986)

Facilities enabling communications to be relayed from aboveground to underground, and enabling people underground to communicate with one another

The term for the geodetic survey of the mining claim performed by mining surveyors

Markscheide is the word for the lateral boundary line of a mining claim, and which is determined by a line to the earth’s surface, and which continues as an imaginary plane to the centre-point of the earth. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Machines and accessories for making cylindrical cavities in the rock, for prospecting, extraction, alignment or lining work, or for preparing blasting work.

Blasting work, all the activities, with the exception of making blasting boreholes, that are necessary for blasting, meaning the forceful rupture and fragmentation of target objects through the application of explosives. (following: Das kleine Bergbaulexikon [The small mining glossary], 1998)

Alongside sculptures, the range of mining-related artworks particularly includes paintings, especially portraits and depictions of mines. A significant portion of these are naïve paintings created by amateur artists, frequently former miners who use this medium to describe their day-to-day work and leisure time.