Mettenschicht

The Mettenschicht is an old miners' custom. So the last traversed layer is called before Christmas. The name refers to the layer of the following Christmas mass.

Expiration

The Steiger ended prematurely this layer with a knock, with whom he knocked out the miners. Then he held in Huthaus, which was richly decorated, a kind of sermon. By the singing of songs Bergmann (eg The Steiger ) thanked the miners for the mountain blessing. A simple, typical food ended the layer. The food consisted mostly of sausage with mashed potatoes and sauerkraut and a schnapps and a gaahlen gelecht ( " yellow miner's lamp ", a synonym for cigar ).

Tourist Mette layers celebrations

The idea of ​​Mettenschicht was starting taken up by the Erzgebirge by many visitors mines to design an era marked by display of mining Customs Christmas party. The range of events ranges from highly oriented to historical traditions year parties - often in the mine itself - for the often volunteers, friends and supporters of the visitors' mine about booking incentive events to mining folklore of coach tourists in the city hall.

Many cavers groups celebrate in the field of their research objects of this custom and combine that with speleological information for their visitors.