Bandlkramer

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Bandlkramer in C. Brand: "Drawings according to the common people, especially the purchase call in Vienna" 1775.

In Austria, a peddler who mainly sold haberdashery , including textile “ribbons” , was called a bandlkramer ( Eastern Bandl “ribbon”; Kramer “shopkeeper, dealer”) . Products such as reverse glass pictures , pottery, sieves, and baskets were also offered by the Bandlkramern on their "Bugl kraxen " moving from house to house. The bandlkramer also had the function of disseminating news, news, information. They were one occupation among many within the migrant population on the fringes of the majority society, which relied on emergency livelihoods (small-scale trade, patchwork, begging) to secure their livelihood. In the romanticizing view of members of the majority population, they belonged to the "traveling folk" of basket makers , tinkers , pocket players or musicians . The economic function of the "Bandlkramer" and similar small business owners has largely ceased to exist. A remnant can be observed at today's flea markets . Yenish itinerant and market traders continue to carry out such traditional trades to this day.

Common usage carried the group name from the dealers to the manufacturers of the tapes. Since a large number of the companies were in the Groß-Siegharts area in the Waldviertel , this area was called Bandlkramerlandl. In Vienna , too , part of the 7th Neubau district was called the Bandlkramerviertel because haberdashery was produced there. Street names are also evidence of this, for example Bandgasse or Seidengasse.

Not to be confused with the Bandlkramer is the phonetically similar Boandlkramer .

literature

  • Leopoldine Hokr: Bandel in trade and change. The history of ribbon weaving in the 18th century . In: Roman Sandgruber (ed.): Magic of the industry. Live and work in the factory age . Oldenbourg, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-85460-000-3 , ( catalog of the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum NF 232), (exhibition catalog, Niederösterreichische Landesausstellung in Pottenstein an der Triesting, Alte Tuchfabrik, Neue Straßenmeisterei from April 29 to October 29, 1989).
  • Ignaz Jörg: On the history of weaving in the "Bandlkramerlandl" . In: Das Waldviertel NF 5, 1956, ISSN  0259-8957 , pp. 68-77.

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