Ash man

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Ferdinand Raimund as Cinderella in The Girl from the Feenworld or The Farmer as Millionaire , lithograph by Josef Kriehuber after a drawing by Moritz von Schwind

Ash man or ash carrier is a historical job title .

history

The ash man and a music wagon: the great public masquerade on horseback and in chariots in Bamberg on the carnival assembly in 1837

In Vienna in the 18th and 19th centuries, heating with wood was common. Heating with coal based on the English or Belgian model did not catch on until the 19th century, although coal deposits (depending on the source, brown or hard coal ) were discovered in the area of Thallern (near Krems on the Danube ) in 1758 and the first one Coal mine in Lower Austria was built.

According to the description of the imperial capital Vienna of Johann Pezzl (1802) one was in a building about a day fathoms wood (the equivalent of about one and a half cubic meters ) burned. Heating with wood leads to combustion residues in the form of wood ash . This was of ash men brought with a crutch from the oven or hob and in a wooden Butte, they carried on the back filled. Most of the time it was people from lower social classes who collected the ashes. In addition to a crutch and a wooden butte, they wore an apron ( scarf ) and a hat with a broad brim. They earned an income by selling the collected wood ash to soap makers and canvas bleachers. They were usual phenomena of everyday life, made with the call An 'Oschn! To 'Oschn! attracted attention and probably went door to door within a certain area (rayon).

Ferdinand Raimund set a literary monument to the ash man in his magical tale, The Girl from the Feenworld or The Farmer as Millionaire , which premiered in 1826, and the Aschenlied composed by Raimund . In it, the farmer Fortunatus Wurzel unexpectedly becomes a millionaire at first, later loses money and youth and has to survive as an old ash man. In the end he goes from being an ash man to being a satisfied forest farmer. A portrayal of the painter Moritz von Schwind shows Raimund in this role.

Karol Bołoz Antoniewicz published the work Punching a Nordic Ash Man in 1831 .

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Cinderella  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Memory of the country - Places: Thallern . Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  2. ^ Leopold Weber & Alfred Weiss: Mining history and geology of the Austrian lignite deposits . Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  3. ↑ a b Felix Czeike (Ed.): Aschenmann. In:  Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1992, ISBN 3-218-00543-4 , p. 172 ( digitized version ).
  4. ↑ Rudi Palla : Disappeared work: The book of the fallen professions , Brandstätter-Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-85033-826-4
  5. ↑ Entry on Aschenmann in the Austria forum
  6. ^ Theater Museum: Role portrait: Ferdinand Raimund . Retrieved August 16, 2018.
  7. ^ Constantin von Wurzbach : Antoniewicz, Karl Bołoz . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 1st part. University printing house L. C. Zamarski (formerly JP Sollinger), Vienna 1856, p. 48 ( digitized version ).