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The Staufer and mining horses

. Innovative Middle Ages and the end of an era

Now he is here, the exhibition catalog "The Staufer and Italy" . After "transformations of the Hohenstaufen empire" the second publication, on the occasion of Joint exhibition of the states of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Rhineland-Plalz and Hesse in the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums in Mannheim (19/09/2010 has been released 02/20/2011) -. "The Staufer and Italy" is now the official companion volume to the exhibition. In fact, there are two volumes with a total of about 800 pages in which one part, the exhibits will be presented, on the other essays various aspects of the three regions of innovation in medieval Europe spotlight.


buddy a uf four legs "More than one hundred years included pit horses surprisingly to the daily work on the mines in the Ruhr. Today, the four-legged friends contribute their horses guide us as manifestations of a bygone era. And yet, not even 50 years passed in 1966 went to Tobias, the last known horse in the Ruhr mining pit in retirement. At his public and the media carried out on behalf and with great sympathy farewell to the era of the miners on four legs.
For science, they were usually just a side note, a minor episode. Former miners gave the four-legged friends in their memories more space; with them outweighs the anecdote. This reader closes this gap. Comprehensive and clearly it reports on the unknown world of the horse pit underground. "(Text Publishing)