Jachymov, Czech Republic/jachymov042
Previous | Home | NextCloseup of the former pharmacy; it dates to 1520. The dwarf in relief is not a human miner, but instead what the Czechs called permons and the Germans called kobolds (this is the source of the name for the element cobalt). According to legend, the miners thought the kobolds were mischievous creatures which hindered mining progress.
