Cultural Heritage in the Context of the Decline of the Mining Industry in Banská Štiavnica
Abstract
The city of Banska Stiavnica and technical monuments in its vicinity were in year 1993 registered in the List of the World Cultural Heritage UNESCO (the mining region). The Salamander Parade in Banska Stiavnica as part of intangible cultural heritage of Slovakia represents specific and unique cultural traditions of miners that had formed during 150 years of existence of the Academy of Mining in Banská Stiavnica, during the following 80 years of active mining, and moreover, during 20 years following its finishing in 1993. The “Ausus” tradition nominated by the mining association Herrengrund is located in the mining settlement of Spania Dolina.
Keywords
The Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Slovakia; Banska Stiavnica; the Salamander Parade; the “Ausus” tradition
Univerzita Mateja Bela, Banská Bystrica, Slovenská republika. Inštitút sociálnych a kultúrnych štúdií. Fakulta humanitných vied Slovakia
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