Bierherr

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Beer masters , also Bierkieser or Biermeister , as they are known in numerous cities such as Erfurt , Cologne and Nuremberg , took over, among other things, the monitoring of the respective purity law with regard to the beer quality, additionally the tapping and, depending on the region, other tasks in connection with the seasonal conditional brewing due to summer and winter beer . In Middle Franconia they are alternatively referred to as beer inspectors .

Erfurt

For the city of Erfurt, a hierarchy in the allusion to the beheading of a senior beer master Limprecht is documented within the college .

Cologne

The Cologne chronicler Wilhelm Scheben gives as additional competence the monitoring of the Cologne hops and malt trade, the city malt mills and, in the event of violations, the right to impose penalties. As an independent (at times four-person) twelve-person college appointed and sworn in by the Cologne city council since 1429, free of instructions from the guilds , the brewers were appointed for two years and their work was rewarded with 40 gold guilders annually.

Brewers
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literature

  • Franz Mathar : Prosit Colonia. The forgotten and the unforgettable breweries, beer and breweries in Cologne. Greven, Cologne 1999, ISBN 3-7743-0317-7 , pp. 8 and 9.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ulrich Goebel, Oskar Reichmann: Early High German Dictionary. Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016382-9 , p. 345. (digitized version )
  2. ↑ Beer inspection in earlier times. (PDF; 129 kB), accessed on September 21, 2013.
  3. ^ Wolfgang Menzel: History of the Germans. Reprint of the original from 1855. Salzwasser-Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8460-1475-2 , p. 32. (digitized version )
  4. ^ The Cologne trade. In: Heinrich von Loesch: The Cologne guild documents together with other Cologne trade documents up to the year 1500. Reprint of the original from 1907. Volume 1, Droste, Düsseldorf 1984, p. 40. (digitized; PDF; 2.4 MB, accessed on 22. September 2013)
  5. ↑ Oath of the brewers. In: Heinrich von Loesch: The Cologne guild documents together with other Cologne trade documents up to the year 1500. Reprint of the original from 1907. Volume 2, Droste, Düsseldorf 1984, p. 87. (digitized; PDF; 2.4 MB, accessed on 22. September 2013)
  6. ↑ Sodomites in late medieval cities. ( Memento from September 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) at: commsywiki.uni-hamburg.de , accessed on September 23, 2013.
  7. ^ Beer in Cologne before 1800 , accessed on September 22, 2013.
  8. ↑ The Cologne Beer Masters and the Purity Law of 1412. accessed on September 22, 2013.

Web links

  • Beer inspector. In: FBM Wagner: Churpfalzbayerisch taught-decisives universal law-lexicon. Volume 1: A-D. Pappenheim 1800, pp. 452 and 453. (digitized version )