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Kċarto
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 Posted - 11/10/2009 : 17:49:15
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Daniel Barth was born in Weissbach in Germany March 22. 1607 to Georg Barth and unknown mother.
Daniel Bart married Mette Baltzersdatter Schneberg Nov. 20. 1633.
Daniel Barth died Feb. 1656, most likley on farm Kjennerud east from Kongsberg.
Mette Schneberg (Snow mountain) born to Batzer Hansen Schneberg and unknown mother died March 6. 1664.
Daniel Barth came to Kongsberg 1629 during the 30 Years´ War in Europe (1618-48).
He was employed as "Hytteskriver" and "Skiktmester" Accountant for the Coppemines Smelting Cabin by "Verloner Son" (The Lost Son mine) in Meheia, a small countryside about 2 Miles south from the silver mines. He rise to the ranks, 1637 after a couple of years deputuship he became permanent employed as "Skiktmester" for the Silver Mines and ended as "Overbergmester" Master of the Silver Mines August 16. 1654 with a yearly salary of 600 Riksdaler.
Daniel Bart was also a tecnical and administrative leader and funcioned as judge as the kings official and is considered to be one of the most skilled officials in the history of Kongsberg Silver Mines, he even wrote diaries showing insight and glimpse of life in the mines.
1648 King Frederick III of Norway-Denmark, Queen Sophie Malene and the escort visited Kongsberg and was greeted by Daniel Barth.
After visiting "Herzog Ulrich" mine Barth invited to "Taffel", Mucic (7 musicians from the mining company) and dinner in his recidence. The food delivered by farmers consisted of 4 young cattle, 47 sheep, 27 lamb, 93 chickens, 2 goose, 1200 egg, 5 pound of butter, 6 and a half load of hay and a huge volume of vine:
154 Gallon of German wine and 170 Gallon og French wine.
Outside knocking on the door stood reprentatives from the miners to appeal to the king about the miserable quality of the food, espesially mouldy grain, the mercants sold them.
Their representatives got audience to the king and presented their complains about low salary, shortages of good grain and high prices
1650 Barth published Hymns and Prayers adapted the connection between godliness and richness coming from the rich mountain.
Some of this information is coming from this Norwegian encyclopedia, the rest from local books not online.
1651 he secured "Kinderĝe" Kjennerud for himself and his wife for as long as they lived, he only lived there for 5 years before he died of sickness.
The speech he wrote to his own funeral is kept in the library in the University of Trondheim.
Johannes Bart 1633-74 takes over as Director for the Silver Mines after his father Daniel.
His grandson Daniel Barth (born to Johannes Barth) takes over Kjennerud in 1674, the same year as his father died, because of that he asked for permission to marry "i huset" at home to "erlige Matrone" honest Matrone Catarina Gothlenderin.
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Kċarto
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Posted - 12/10/2009 : 14:23:10
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To get the information from the Norwegian pages translated, try this online translater, it works pretty good.
Encounter the letters Ĉ-Ĝ-Ċ this translater is to a great help, "Fra norsk" From Norwegian. "Slett" Delete
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Kċarto
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Posted - 17/12/2009 : 09:10:21
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Here is a picture of the medals I mentioned that Caspar Barth engraved at the Royal Mint in Oslo in connection with the royal visit in 1685.
Source: The Barth book page 13.
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elizabethanderssen
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Posted - 17/12/2009 : 20:30:01
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Thank-you SO much. An early Christmas present! Hope you have wonderful holidays.
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Kċarto
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Posted - 17/12/2009 : 22:07:26
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You are welcome Elizabeth and thanks for the nice greeting.
We have less than 10 inches of snow, just enough to have a white Christmas in Kongsberg.
Merry Christmas.
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Help with translation , please
