Craftsmanship

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Handicraft justice (also: master craftsman justice ) (early New High German) describes the right of access of a guild and thus the acquired or granted right to practice a craft independently .

Craftsmanship could be inherited and acquired either by marrying master widows or authorized master daughters, or by purchase. Their price was negotiable or official. For example, according to the council resolution of December 2, 1606, tanners who moved to Frankfurt am Main and wanted to work there as guild masters had to pay 10 guilders, 10 shillings and two quarters of wine for trade fairness. If the applicant moved in with a woman, additional benefits in cash and in kind were due. In order to alleviate the financial burden that arose in this connection, it was customary in Augsburg to grant masters tax exemption in the first year after obtaining justice.

The fairness of handicrafts was not freely tradable, since a transfer required the permission of the respective guild. Even a wish to sell with the aim of providing care due to occupational disability was not always recognized as an immediately sufficient reason for transfer.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heydenreuther, Reinhard et al., Vom AbbrÄNer zum Zentgraf, Dictionary of regional history and local research in Bavaria , Bavarian Regional Association for Homeland Care, Volk Verlag Munich 2009.
  2. ↑ handcraft, 7th meaning. In: https://fwb-online.de/ . Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, accessed on May 24, 2020 .
  3. ↑ a b Christine Werkstetter: Women in the Augsburger Zunfthandwerk: Work, industrial relations and gender relations in the 18th century . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-05-003617-6 , pp. 291, 341, 356 f . ( google.de ).
  4. ↑ Publications of the Historical Commission of the City of Frankfurt a. M .: VI. Frankfurt official and guild documents up to 1612. First part: Guild documents up to 1612 . In: Karl Bücher / Benno Schmidt (Ed.): Publications of the Historical Commission of the City of Frankfurt a. M . tape 1 . Joseph Baer & Co., Frankfurt a. M. 1914, p. 347 ( uni-koeln.de ).
  5. ↑ Felix Mader: Loy Hering: a contribution to the history of the German sculpture of the XVI. Century . 1867, p. 2 ( archive.org ).