Kurtka
Kurtka or Kutka , was the name of an original with the Polish troops of the Napoleonic Wars used Uniform Rocks . The short skirts and the badge-colored chest trimmings were characteristic . The style was created in 1793 under the influence of the modern uniform uniform introduced in the entire Russian army in 1786/88 , but which was abolished there in 1796. When lancers' associations were set up in other European armies based on the Polish model, the "Polish" style of uniform was adopted there with the Tschapka, mostly as a typical lancer uniform . After the introduction of the tunic , the kurtka was replaced by the ulanka .
Since kurtka was actually just the Polish or Russian word for jacket , the term was often used for other uniform jackets with Eastern European style influences such as lacing on the chest or pointed cuffs . B. 1817 with the cavalry in Württemberg .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Colored Handbook of Uniform Studies (Volume 1), Richard Knötel , Herbert Knötel and Herbert Sieg, Stuttgart 1985, ISBN 3440810720 ; Although Knötel does not provide a written definition, it represents the Kurtka in Figures 21h, 54i and 54k as such and also repeatedly refers to it in the text, e.g. B. on p. 56 for Bavaria, p. 112 for Cleve-Berg and p. 131 for Austria.
- ↑ Colored Handbook of Uniform Studies (Volume 2), Richard Knötel, Herbert Knötel and Herbert Sieg, Stuttgart 1994 p. 111, 131
- ↑ "Short tunic now with strings" Brockhaus' Kleines Konversations-Lexikon, fifth edition, Volume 1. Leipzig 1911., p. 1039
- ↑ Uniform regulation for the Königlich Würtembergische Militair , printed by the royal court and chancellery book printers Gebrüder Mäntler, Stuttgart, 1819