The riches of the earth
The ore deposits of Tyrol made the land and its princes rich. The “tradesmen” – the name given to the mining entrepreneurs – came mostly from the nobility and the upper middle classes and became the largest employers and investors in ore districts such as the Ahrntal Valley. The permanent exhibition in the Steinhaus grain store relates the example of the Count von Enzenberg, one of the most important tradesmen in the history of mining in the Ahrntal Valley.
