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Thanks to contacts documented since the Middle Ages with other mining centres (in Styria, Bohemia, the Black Forest, and Sweden), many friendships developed, particularly during the later days of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. At Schneeberg, as well as local workers from Ridnaun and Passeier, many Bohemians, Czechs, Slovenes, Croats, Hungarians and Italians were employed and, in their isolated mining village, in their free time they made music, to their own accompaniment. In this way, the mine also acted as a meeting-point for various cultural and musical influences.
After 1871, when the state mining industry began extracting blende, the miners’ band became a permanent institution.
The visit of emperor Franz Josef II on September 21 1899 to Sandhof in Passeier, for the inauguration of the road from Meran to St. Leonhard, was the occasion for a grand exhibition, for which the Schneeberg Miners’ Band was officially asked to provide the music.
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