Permission for marriage issued to a saltworks employee

Marriage permissions were commonly used in the Wieliczka Saltworks under the Austrian administration. The permission was treated very seriously by the imperial-royal Saltworks Management, despite the fact that it interfered with a rather private sphere of the miner’s life. This can be confirmed by two cases, recorded in the personnel books of Wieliczka. A certain Franciszek Kościuk from Wieliczka, employed as a carter, was dismissed two years later, because “he got married without the consent of the management”. The same kind of annotation can be found by the name of andrzej Sosina from Siercza, also employed in 1893, as a carter, and dismissed in 1895. As it can be seen, the consequences of a failure to obtain the permission could be serious, including loss of one’s job.