Line leg

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Seal of the Linen Legge Bielefeld
Former Legge built as a gatehouse in Tecklenburg .

Legge (from Low German Lege or (Ab) Lage ), also to clarify: Linen or Linnenlegge , in northwest Germany (Westphalia and neighboring areas) is a formerly common name for centrally set up linen testing and collection points. They were set up to guarantee a uniform quality of the canvas produced in the country and thus to strengthen confidence in the goods offered at the respective trading center. The placed for sale in the city canvas had to Legge masters on long tables for testing the extent and quality pre- sets are and got after passing the physical check as a test certificate a color stamp. In many cases ( Bielefeld , Osnabrück , Tecklenburg ) these leg (s) offices became real commodity exchanges because the goods brought together centrally on the spot attracted trade. Since the legging system also excluded competing trade in the territory ( monopoly ), it had a considerable effect on local prosperity. By assigning the linen production, which mostly takes place in rural house production, to urban leggings, the connection between rural and urban areas in the respective area has been tied more closely.

Stamp for "BRUCHHAUSISCHE LEGGE", wood. Copy confiscated as a forgery in Bremen in the 19th century, Focke Museum .

In the 18th century the importance of leggings began to decline. Although the territorial rulers tried to (re) introduce the legging system to boost the domestic economy themselves in the post-Napoleonic era , the decline of domestic linen production in the course of mechanization and industrialization of linen production also sealed the decline of the legging.

literature

  • Heinz Potthoff : The linen leg of the Grafschaft Ravensberg. In: 15th Annual Report of the Historical Association for the County of Ravensberg, 1901, pp. 1-40. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .
  • Bernd J. Wagner: The Legge: Bielefeld on linen thread. 2015, accessed June 22, 2019 .
  • Wiemann: Osnabrücker Stadtlegge . In: Messages of the Association for History and Regional Studies Osnabrück. 35, 1910.
  • Hermann Hohls: Linen trade in Northern Germany from the Middle Ages to the 17th century . In: Hansische Geschichtsblätter 31, 1926, 116–158.
  • Edith Schmitz: Linen and Linen Trade in Northwest Germany (1650 - 1850) , (Writings on Rheinisch-Westfälische Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 15), Cologne 1967 (not yet viewed).
  • Hans Heinrich Blotevogel : Central locations and spatial relationships in Westphalia before industrialization (1780-1850) . Aschendorff, Münster 1975. (Publications of the Provinzialinstitut für Westfälische Landes- und Volkskunde 1, 19) - with an investigation into the effects of the legging system on the local centrality.
  • Ilsetraut Lindemann: The old town hall and the leg of Osnabrück . In: Osnabrücker Land. Homeland yearbook. Publisher: Kreisheimatbund Bersenbrück e. V. and Heimatbund Osnabrücker Land e. V. Edited by Heinrich Böning. Ankum 1984.

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