Coffee maker
Caffamacher even Kaffamaker is one since the 17th century, especially in northern Germany common job title for Weber , the Caffa or Kaffa made has a flowered velvet . In Hamburg's Neustadt district , the street Caffamacherreihe is named after them.
term
The origin and meaning of the word Caffamacher is interpreted in different ways. Michael Richey traced it back to Kaff-Haarmaker in the idioticon Hamburgense , with the explanation that the shorn silk produced during the production of velvet looks like kaff or kaffhaar , Low German for chaff . In the idiom-typical contraction of the word, Kaffamaker emerged from this .
In the Hamburg dictionary , Richey's definition is seen as a reinterpretation. Rather, the term refers to the manufacturers of the fabric Kaffa, Caffa or Caffar, a velvet with a silk warp, woolen weft and floral pile , and is derived from the French caffard or cafard . Cafard, on the other hand, with the literal translation hypocrite , is described as “stuff with a chain made of silk and a cotton cover ” or “stuff with a woolen chain and linen cover ”. Caffa and with it the Dutch job title Kaffawerker came to Northern Germany through Dutch religious refugees who settled in Hamburg at the end of the 16th century and brought in various silk weaving techniques, among other things.
development
With the Dutch, silk weaving in Hamburg, which had been insignificant since the 14th century, gained a considerable boom. The introduced manufacturing techniques spawned new materials, in addition to the Caffa these were of the Triepwebern Triep manufactured or Tripp-called velvet plush and the tree silk from woolen yarn and baumwollenem. The caffa in particular was so popular that at the beginning of the 17th century it was considered a luxury item , the wearing of which was regulated in a Bursprake from 1611:
“Gliker gestalt schoelen fruwen and jungfern umb de piltze henford weren't together with edder caffa dragen. (Likewise, women and girls with the furs should not wear velvet or caffa in the future.) "
The background to these dress codes , which have been regularly enacted by the Hamburg Council since the second half of the 14th century, was the attempt to curb excessive and financially ruinous clothing expenditure. The restrictions on wearing caffa in the Hamburg dress code of 1618 were also specified more precisely. Exceptions existed for children's jackets and coats:
"However, small children up to the 3rd year of age should be allowed to wear Wämbsen and Mawen Caffar for the sake of health."
The increasing importance of various branches of textile manufacture can be seen in the associations of brotherhoods . In 1609, the Triepmacher founded an agency that merged with the tree silk weavers in 1621, and in 1628 the Caffa and velvet makers got together. In 1755 these leagues gave rise to the brotherhood of the master caffa, plate maker, drive and velvet maker . According to their records, 183 masters, 18 former masters unable to work and 30 widows were registered in these trades around 1630.
From the 18th century the textile industry declined. The silk weaving lasted a little longer, in 1788 97 looms for silk cloth and 29 for velvet were counted in the city, but in 1811 only 24 masters and 10 widows were recorded. The brotherhood was formed in 1834.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Richey: Idioticon Hamburgense or word book to explain the own Lower Saxon mouth style used in and around Hamburg , reprint of the edition of 1755, Kötz Verlag, Hamburg 1975, p. 106; can be viewed online as a google book
- ↑ a b Hamburg Dictionary : Based on the preliminary work by Christoph Walther and Agathe Lasch, edited by Beate Hennig and Jürgen Meier. / Edited by Beate Hennig, Jürgen Meier and Jürgen Ruge. Wachholtz Verlag , Volume 2 F - K, Neumünster 2000, ISBN 3-529-04603-5 , p. 911.
- ↑ Herders Conversations-Lexikon , Freiburg im Breisgau, Volume 1, 1854, p. 751
- ^ Wilhelm Stieda: Hamburgische Gewerbetreibende abroad , Journal for Hamburg History, Volume 9, Hamburg 1894, p. 422
- ↑ Johannes Geffken: The Hamburg wedding order from 1609 and the Hamburg dress code from 1618 , Journal for Hamburg History, Volume 1, Hamburg 1841, p. 560
- ^ Wilhelm Stieda: Hamburgische Gewerbetreibende abroad , p. 423
- ^ Wilhelm Stieda: Hamburgische Gewerbetreibende abroad , p. 424
- ^ Wilhelm Ludwig Holland: The book of examples of the old wise men , Stuttgart 1860, p. 255 footnote 31