Angster (glass)
The angster also Kuttrolf , cowl Rolf, Gutterolf, Guttrolf or Gluckerflasche, is produced with an unusual suction-blow technique bottle-shaped (drinking) vessel with a narrow neck. Its peculiarity is that it has an onion-shaped belly and a straight or twisted neck consisting of three to five tubes, as well as a mostly bowl-shaped pouring opening. It belongs to the joke and puzzle glasses. Drinking from such a vessel is a little difficult on purpose. In addition to the round pumpkin-like or onion-shaped body shape, cylindrical or polygonal shapes are also documented.
The manufacturing technology already existed in Cologne in the 3rd and 4th centuries, and multi-tube bottles are documented throughout the Middle Ages and further into the 19th century. The main distribution area was above all the central and upper Rhine area and also northern Germany. The first mention of the Angster or Kuttrolf in Germany is documented in 1220 in the epic Willehalm by Wolfram von Eschenbach as "gutteral" for wine. Because of its popularity in Germany, there was a limit to the mass production of angers in the Spessart , documented for 1406, to no more than 200 pieces a day if the glazier had an assistant, or 100 "kutterolf" if he worked alone. It was also used in France in the 14th century and was made in Venice in the 16th and 17th centuries.
In typical angster, the neck tubes are vertical and twisted 90 °. If you drink or pour out of fear, you will hear a loud gurgling and chuckling.
A variety of angster is the angster or Kuttrolff bottle. It is made as a bottle (storage or serving vessel) with a ground-in cork stopper and has an incorporated constriction on all sides in the lower bottle body segment, which also generates chuckling noises when pouring.
Angster is etymologically derived from the Latin angustus "narrow, narrow, thin"; the same root word is also found in Angst and the Swiss coin name Angster .
The term Kutt (e) rolf or Gutterolf contains the Latin guttur, -uris "Gurgel" or guttus , -i "(drip) -can". The Kuttrolf is represented as a common figure in the coat of arms of Heigenbrücken .
See also
literature
- Hans Löber: Guttrolfe, shaping and manufacturing technology . In: Glass technical reports . 39, 1966, No. 12, pp. 539-548.
- Baumgartner, Erwin / Ingeborg Krueger: Phoenix made of sand and ashes. Medieval glass. Munich 1988. p. 316ff and p. 418ff.
- Late Middle Ages on the Upper Rhine. Everyday life and trade 1350-1525 . Exhibition catalog, Stuttgart 2001, p. 202.
- Ring, Edgar (ed.), Glass Culture in Lower Saxony - Tableware and Household Glass from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Age . Husum 2003, p. 151.
- From the Wirtshaus zum Wilden Mann - finds from medieval Nuremberg . Exhibition catalog, Nuremberg 1984, p. 49.
- Struss, Dieter: Drinking glasses. From the late Middle Ages to early modern times . Augsburg 1998. ISBN 3-89441-288-7 . (Images and descriptions: pp. 19–2; definition: p. 207).
- Schweizerisches Idiotikon Vol. I Sp. 340, Article Angster III .
- Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk: Kuttrolf . In: RDK Labor (2018) [1] .
