Carriol

Postillon on a carriol

Richard Eschke : Karriol-Post from Nidden

The Karriol (also Kariol , the Karriole , outdated: Karjole ; from the French carriole, a diminutive of the Celtic carrus = cart) is a half-wagon, a light, single-axle wagon that can accommodate one or two people in addition to the coachman.

The wagon basket is sometimes referred to as a benne .

Karriolpost (elsewhere: Karrenpost) was the name of a one or two-axle mail carriage that was also allowed to transport people. It was pulled by a horse and used for secondary lines, for example in the Prussian postal system.

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Wiktionary: Karrenpost  - explanations of meanings, word origins , synonyms, translations

• The wagons and horses of the post office
• Contemporary illustration
• Photo of a carriage mail
• Photo of a carriol
• Photo of a Norwegian carriol (picture 6) and photo of an English carriol (eng.curricle, picture 20) (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carioles. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
2. ↑ H. a. Hirt: Etymology of the New High German language . 1921, p. 204
3. ↑ half car . In: German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (Ed.): German legal dictionary . tape 4 , issue 10 (edited by Hans Blesken and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1951, Sp. 1468 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).
4. ^ Johann Christoph Adelung: Grammatical-critical dictionary of the German language . 1811