Leyendecker
Leyendecker (also Leiendecker ) was an earlier name for the profession of the slater .
The job title was also known as Leiendecker or Leidecker . The first part of the words is Middle High German lei (e) for "slate". The word was originally derived from the Celtic word lika, likka , which means stone slab. Leyendecker were the roofers who specialized in working with slate . By 1100 there were already Leyendecker guilds in the Trier area. In 1363 there were 24 Leyendecker in Trier , but only one straw decker . The job title appeared in Cologne around 1300. The current family name Leyendecker (also Leiendecker or Leydecker) developed from the name. The demonstrably first person with this name in Cologne was a person with the first name Franco.
Slate roofers , the current job title, are still sought after abroad.
literature
- Wilfried Seibicke: How do you say elsewhere? Landscape differences in German usage. 2nd Edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1983, ISBN 3-411-01978-6 , page 134, article “Schiefer”, there the treatise of the Rhineland noun Lei (High German: Schiefer) and the derived compound Leiendecker .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Old job titles from church registers
- ^ Center Celtic Studies, Trier, on Lei
- ↑ http://www.familie-herold-online.de/page6.php ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Adam Wrede : New Cologne vocabulary . 3 volumes A - Z, Greven Verlag, Cologne, 9th edition 1984, ISBN 3-7743-0155-7 , Volume II, p. 139
- ↑ http://de.gigajob.com/job/Schieferdecker.html
