CALENDAR ARCHIVE / 2018

Mining Calendar 2018 – Saxon Mining, Anniversary Edition

The 25th edition looks back on a quarter-century of the Saxon Mining Calendar. Each month has two image pages, covering underground workings, mining machinery, water management, historical documents, art and mineralogy.

This archive contains all 28 original pages: cover, foreword sheet, 24 monthly image pages and two notes pages. The complete introduction to the history of the calendar series is also available as readable text in English translation.

25th edition · 28 original pages · Two image pages per month · Photographs and text: Jens Kugler

Mining Calendar 2018 cover with an underground photograph and anniversary emblem — COVER · 2018

Saxon Mining – Anniversary Edition

The cover shows old stopes at Himmelfahrt Fundgrube in Freiberg reached by the Thurmhofer Hilfsstolln. Photograph: Jens Kugler, 2012. The edition commemorates twenty-five years of the Saxon Mining Calendar.

2018 foreword sheet with calendar covers from 1994 to 2018 and anniversary text — FOREWORD · 2018

25 Years of the Saxon Mining Calendar

The foreword sheet assembles the calendar covers from 1994 to 2018 around an account of the series’ origins and development. The complete introduction follows in readable English translation.

English translation of the original 2018 anniversary introduction. References to the present day refer to its year of publication.

Saxon Mining Calendar

Twenty-five years ago, what is now the Media Centre of TU Bergakademie Freiberg and the Druckspecht company in Langenstriegis put into practice the idea of demonstrating the capabilities of the newly established printing company with a calendar printed on different types of paper. Mining in Saxony was chosen as its subject. The unexpectedly enthusiastic response and recognition received by the first calendar led to the project’s continuation. The calendars of the early years still revealed a search for their own identity. With the themed calendar “Bergstädte”, attention was focused on a single subject for the first time. A concept using one main image with small supplementary illustrations was adopted, and proved successful in subsequent years, as did the portrait format.

As its title suggests, the calendar was geographically confined to Saxony, with a consistent focus on the historically significant mining industry of the Erzgebirge. To distinguish it from other calendars that took up the same subject over time, the name “Original Saxon Mining Calendar” was adopted. For years, the calendar has been a sought-after collectible for individuals as well as libraries and archives. This is due to the outstanding photographs, most of them previously unpublished, as much as to the appealing layout and excellent printing. The calendar remains a popular gift from associations to their members and partners, and from companies to their employees and customers.

Twenty-five years of the Mining Calendar also means twenty-five years of profound changes in photography and image processing, prepress work and printing techniques – the transition from analogue to digital. With this anniversary calendar, we would above all like to thank our loyal customers. Its impressive photographs look back on and reconnect with the individual themes of the past twenty-five years, from raw-material extraction to processing, and from art to science.