Krainer peasant stick

Crate of the Krainer Bauernstock with removable bottom and end boards (drawing from the monograph Complete Doctrine of Beekeeping )

Painted front board on the front of a Krainer peasant stick

Apiary with Krainer farm sticks

The Carniolan farmer's hive , a beehive , is a form of horizontal hive that was developed by the Theresian master beekeeper Anton Janša from the beehives that predominated in the Slovenian-speaking area .

The main feature of this flat box is its removable front board. The floor board can also be removed in order to carry out a precise public inspection. The dimensions originally fluctuated depending on the region and mode of operation . Years later, the dimensions were standardized to 70 × 30 × 15 cm.

The great advantage of the boxes was their easy portability for hikes and stackability for extensions. However, the tightness of the boxes adversely affected the quantity of honey production . The beekeeper Ludwig Armbruster also referred to the Krainer peasant stick as the tunnel stick .

The tradition that developed in the Slovene-speaking area of ​​painting the removable front board was remarkable (see bees board ).

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Janscha, Anton . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 10th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1863, p. 89 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Robin FA Moritz: The hobby beekeeper ; Falken-Verlag 2nd edition (October 1994), ISBN 380680978X
• J. Nitschmann & JO Hüsing: Lexicon of Apiculture ; Tosa Verlag, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-85492-616-2
• F. Ruttner: Natural history of honey bees ; Franckh-Kosmos Verlag (2003), pp. 71-72, ISBN 3440091252
• The history and distribution of horizontal apiary. Retrieved February 23, 2014 .