Hoppenplöcker
Hoppenplöcker means hop picker and used to refer to people without land ownership in the Lippe dialect . The name came from their main occupation, the hops picking and the piling of the hop poles . Hops were needed for brewing beer , and hop gardens were laid out at almost all of the palaces and castles. Often that was brewing right at the rulers, and every pitcher, every tavern in the territory was committed to the grand beer decrease. The Hoppenplöcker hired themselves out as day laborers on farms or went from 1750 as Ziegler into the unknown.
The Hoppenplöcker, also known as street dogs, were on the lowest social level and, apart from a small house ( kotten) or an apartment, had no or very little arable land. Besides picking hops, they were also a. also used for shearing sheep and harvesting flax . The classification of the farms and cottages was carried out according to a traditional ranking, which documented the farm size, tax value and social status in the village and which lasted until the middle of the 19th century. In general, particular emphasis was placed on social differentiation, and the resulting barriers were difficult to overcome, a fact that is evidenced by numerous processes and files.
See also
Web links
- Farm history from Dörentrup (PDF file; 93 kB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vollmeier, Großkötter, Kleinkötter and Hoppenplöcker ( Memento of the original from April 9, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
