Hunsrück bone tinker family Pies

"The bone tinker - Mr. Peter Pies and a young patient". Sculpture by the artist Jutta Reiss from 2008 in Emmelshausen

The Hunsrück bone tinker family Pies was a family active in the Hunsrück from the early modern period to the end of the 20th century in the healing professions, whose best-known people were known as chiropractors , so as "bone repairers" . The family still produces many medical professionals today.

Origins

The earliest representative on the Hunsrück can be identified in the Thirty Years' War, the Palatinate-Neuburgische Regimentsfeldscher Diederich Pies , who died in Mannebach in 1666 . Like his half-brother Wilhelm Pies , who was also a doctor, he came from a Klevian family who last lived in Amsterdam. Of his descendants named Pies, 13 medical dissertations can be found between 1907 and 1978 alone. The descendants lived in Sabershausen , Dorweiler and Dommershausen .

Pies Museum

The Vorderhunsrück Museum , founded and run by the doctor and historian Eike Pies in the former rectory of Dommershausen, documents the history of the Hunsrück bone tinkers.

Last representative

• Peter Pies (* 1875 in Dorweiler; † 1962 in Emmelshausen) practiced from 1908 in a room in his newly built inn on the newly opened Hunsrück Railway in Emmelshausen . His house at the station was one of the first two houses in the station estate. The community donated a bronze sculpture by the artist Jutta Reiss , which was unveiled in front of the main building on April 5, 2009.
• Jakob Pies (* 1877 in Dorweiler; † 1941 ibid.), Farmer and tinker, was the last of his class in Dorweiler. His son died early and he had three daughters. Werner Helwig set him a literary monument in his story The Aesculapian of the Hunsrück . (Also in: Richter und beinflicker )
• Jakob Pies (* 1860 in Dorweiler, † 1920 in Kappel) had to Kappel married into a small farm. He and his son Robert (1902–1973) were the last real tinkerers to do this alongside their main job, in this case farmers. Robert's brother Franz and after him his son Franz-Georg were doctors in Kastellaun .

literature

• Eike Pies (Ed.): The pies helps in bones, the pies in the weeks: a proverbial family in the mirror of literature; Terms and idioms, legends and anecdotes, poems and stories, Stickelcher and novels, notes and documents about a proverbial family. Brockhaus, Wuppertal 2011, ISBN 978-3-930132-29-4 .
• Eike Pies: judge and tinker. 600 years from the chronicle of the Pies family 1372–1972. Henn, Ratingen 1972, DNB 720168252 (also contains The Aesculapia des Hunsrück ).

Web links

• Pissacken at wiktionary
• Pies Museum

Individual evidence

1. ^ Armin Prinz: Willem Piso (1611–1678). Founder of scientific tropical medicine. In: Communications from the Austrian Society for Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 14, 1992, pp. 1-12 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
2. ↑ The Sabershausen Line ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Peter Pies at gedbas.genealogy.net
4. ↑ Object at jutta-reiss.de  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Rhein-Zeitung archive of April 3, 2009
6. ↑ data at gedbas.genealogy.net
7. ↑ Robert Pie's ancestors at gedbas.genealogy.net
8. ↑ Eduard Pies (Franz Pies: * 1896 in Kappel, † 1954 in Kastellaun)