Bread bank

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Taccuino Sanitatis : bread sale in the 14th century

As bread Bank (Brotpanckh) were referred to in the Middle Ages and until the 19th century, the sales point of bakers .

In the Middle Ages , production and sale were separated and strictly regulated by regulations. It was a general rule that similar goods had to be sold in the same place. These were mostly the markets and later also the department stores. That is why more and more warehouses, halls and banks were built. The sovereign princes first had to grant the right to be able to set up a bread bank, for example.

The bakers had to bring their products to the bread bank. There the bread was checked for the prescribed quality and weight and sold at the fixed prices. The bakers had to pay rent or interest for it. In Vienna z. B. in the 15th century so-called bread banks, which the bakers had to rent in order to be able to sell their bread.

In Brixen the bakers had to have their bread weighed in the "Brotpanckh" according to the city regulations of 1604. If it was not of the same quality and weight, the bread had to be given to the hospital or to the poor, and the bakers were punished as criminals.

“Bread bank was the name of the public eatery in Merano where bakers sold their bread, and later other necessities were also sold” (19th century).

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  1. ↑ Bread Bank . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , issue 4 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date 1932 or 1933).
  2. ↑ Luziner Dorfchronik
  3. ↑ Graben (Vienna)
  4. ↑ Brixner Bread Panckh
  5. ^ Mathias Ladurner-Parthanes: Karl Wolf and his folk plays . Editor Raiffeisenkasse Algund, pp. 14–15