Ore tax General

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The word urbura comes from the German Urbuhr and means yield or revenue. This term refers to a form of tax, a tribute that miners paid to the monarch in kind, in extracted resources, in exchange for the right to mine metals within the territory of the Kingdom of Bohemia.
According to mining law, it was literally the monarch’s share of the profit from metal mining. Urbura was expressed as a portion of the mined metal, which was mostly used for coin production. The collection of urbura was overseen by royal officials known as Urburers. The amount of urbura was determined based on shares and depended on the quantity of ore extracted.

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