Hotzen

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A hotzen or hotz cloth was a rough woolen cloth in the Middle Ages in southwest Germany and Switzerland.

In the 19th century, Hotzen in Süd bathed the wide pleated harem pants without straps. At the same time, Hotz in the Bernese Oberhasli and Valais was understood to be "the least amount of flax waste still used as spun."

In addition, Hotzen is the plural form of Hotz , the inhabitant of the Hotzenwald . The Hotzenwald probably got its name from the trousers of the Hauenstein farmer.

history

A Hotzenmacher from Schaffhausen in Switzerland has come down to us from 1430 . The Hotzen is described as ruw graw cloth (rough gray cloth) and is often mentioned as a merchandise from Schaffhausen between 1496 and 1516. The Bishop of Basel bought it in 1468 and 1469 for his court servants in brown and black. In 1442 and 1480 the Hotzen is mentioned in the definition of the Schaffhausen customs tariffs. In 1476 hotzenrock and hotzentuoch appear in a Bern and Lucerne toboggan as booty from the battle of Grandson .

The trade route that connected Schaffhausen and Basel at that time led over the Klettgau and the bridges in Rheinheim / Zurzach , Klein-Laufenburg / Laufenburg and Säckingen / Stein to Basel. From Zurzach, where the then important Zurzach trade fairs took place, the sale of brurznen heaters is also documented in 1470 .

properties

The Hotzen was, as the documents show, from wool produced and was gray, brown and black. The term cloth , which is used in connection with the term hotzen , suggests a fabric that was probably still milled . According to the Swabian dictionary , it was "a material with Flemish yarn used".

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Baden Dictionary, Volume II, page 779, Article Hotz III .
  2. ↑ a b M [ichael] R [ichard] Buck: Oberdeutsches Flurnamenbuch. An alphabetically arranged guide for friends of German language and cultural history, especially for educated foresters and farmers. Stuttgart 1880. 2nd edition, Bayreuth 1931.
  3. ↑ a b Swiss Idiotikon, Volume II, column 1835, articles Hotz I .
  4. ↑ For this detail Badisches Dictionary, Volume II, page 779, under Hotz I .
  5. ↑ Joseph Merk: History of the origin, development and establishment of the Hauenstein unification in the Middle Ages. In: Year books of history and statecraft, Vol. 2. Ed. Karl Heinrich Ludwig Pölitz. Leipzig 1833, p. 154.
  6. ↑ Schweizerisches Idiotikon, Volume VI, Column 829/30, Article Hotzenrock
  7. ↑ Swabian Dictionary, Volume III, Column 1841, Article Hotze (n) .