The leather jump
Element in the Register of the intangible cultural heritage:
Date of inscription:
10/05/2021
Subdomains:
The leather jump is a custom through which novices enter the mining profession. It normally takes place at the end of schooling as part of the mining festive day. With a jump over a leather apron, the novice miner symbolically jumps over the mine shaft, acquires a godfather and is sworn into the profession.
The bearers of the element of the intangible cultural heritage are (3):
1. Premogovnik Velenje d. o. o.,
2. Šolski center Velenje – Šola za strojništvo, geotehniko in okolje,
3. Univerza v Ljubljani, Naravoslovnotehniška fakulteta.
