Beauties of Our Homeland The "Tajchy" of Banská Štiavnica - Rozgrund 50th Anniversary of the Slovak Academy of Sciences |
Catalogue Number: | 305 |
Stamp and Coupon Design: | Peter Augustovič |
Stamp and Coupon Engraving: | Bohumil Šneider |
Date of Issue: | July 15, 2003 |
Printing: | Postal Stationery Printing House, Prague, Czech Republic |
Print Technology: | Recess printing from flat plates |
Size of Impression: | 43.0 mm x 23.0 mm |
Print Run: | 150,000 pieces |
FDC Motif: | Peter Augustovič |
FDC Engraving: | Bohumil Šneider |
Cancellation Design: | Peter Augustovič |
FDC Printing: | TAB Ltd., Bratislava |
FDC Print Technology: | Recess printing from flat plates |
FDC Print Run: | 6,000 |
The old mining town of Banská Štiavnica has a unique and ingenious system for the management of water, dating back to the early 1700's. A complete system of "tajchy", or reservoirs, with interconnecting racing channels, was built for the accumulation of surface water and also as a source of energy. The energy generated proved invaluable for subterranean water pumping machinery in the local mines; indeed Banská Štiavnica became the most important center of precious metal mining during the Habsburg dynasty.
It is thanks to the inventors Matej Komel Hell and Jozef Karol Hell, as well as the scientist and polymath Samuel Mikovíni that this system was devised. By the end of the 1800's as many as sixty reservoirs were built, of which twenty-three still exist today. Banská Štiavnica and the "tajchy" are UNESCO World Heritage sites. |
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