Flöttermäuße
Flöttermäuße are a special type of nails , which in earlier times were individually made by blacksmiths and used by carpenters and roofers. It is a term no longer used or only rarely used today.
Task and area of application
Flöttermäuße are nails, the heads of which are laterally forged wing-like - or in other words: S-shaped - (i.e. nails with an S-shaped head). This gives them a larger area of their own, thus covering a larger area on the wood to be held together and deliberately making it more difficult to tear out the nailed wooden parts due to the effects of wind and weather.
These special nails were mostly used on porch boards, i.e. in exposed places on the roof where the wind could be particularly strong.
Manufacturing
The special iron nails were only forged at their place of use. Their appearance is therefore very different depending on the individual taste and skills of the respective blacksmith. Johann Mayer (see literature) noted the purchase of “16 pounds of iron for the flöttermäuße” in his documents.
Trivia
In the traditional sources there is always talk of flöttermäußen . It is unclear whether this word only exists in the plural ( plural tantum ) and what the singular name of the word is. It is also open where the word comes from and what original meaning it has. In Austrian, flute mouse means something like butterfly.
literature
- Mathias Ueblacker: Der Vierseithof des Mittermayr zu Riedertsham - to bookkeeping and building documents of Johann Mayer from 1822 to 1849 - with a contribution from the Sandbacher Geschichtsbl Blätter , No. 3, 1988 and an explained transcription to the chronicle of Johann Mayer “Description or Thorough Memorial, the Cases of misfortune, on the path of my life “- Dedicated to the memory of Franz Weinholzer, farmer on the Mittermayer farm 1926 - 2009 . Volk, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-86222-110-3 , pp. 144 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dorothee Ott: Solved: The riddle about the "Flöttermäuße". Monument Preservation Information, No. 155, July 2013, p. 94 - published by the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation . Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
- ↑ wiki.uibk.ac.at .