coachman

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under coachman (disambiguation) .

Württemberg court coach and pioneer in court uniform at a parade in Stuttgart, 1909

The coachman is the driver of a horse-drawn cart or carriage . This term stands for the driver of all types of horse-drawn carts (for people , mail , loads of all kinds). Up until the introduction of the motor vehicle , the coachman was primarily understood to be the domestic driver. In wealthy homes there were employees who only served as coachmen. In the more modest households , the coachman was often also the groom or groom . The drivers of a horse-drawn tram are sometimes called coachmen.

Eigenkutscher was a regional job title for a coachman with his own horse and carriage, who carries out transports for a fee. It's an early form of freight forwarder.

The leaders of rather slow vehicles for transporting goods ( carts ) are called carters or carters.

Today, the drivers of the teams in driving are often referred to as coachmen, but they refer to themselves as (team) drivers.

literature

• Heinrich XXVIII. Reuss zu Köstritz : The correct coachman. Manual for equipage owners and their coachmen . Berlin 1890

Web links

Commons : Kutscher  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The job title was used around 1842 in the church book of the Evangelical Church of Marggrabowa in East Prussia.