Itinerant traders

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The term traveling trader is a generic term for mobile Höker , i.e. traders without a shop.

For traveling traders in markets there are also the terms market trader , market feeder , market driver or fierant (from Italian: fiera = fair).

Wandering traders are and were called

In the course of industrialization, many products were manufactured across the board that were previously mainly manufactured in certain regions. Because of this, and with the advent of the railroad and other means of transport, the importance of traveling trade decreased.

Goods that could achieve a high price per kilogram and that were transportable were naturally suitable for the traveling trade, e.g. B. Brussels lace, clocks or scythes. Sometimes the dealers had brochures or samples with them. Whenever someone ordered something, they were delivered on the traveling trader's next trip.

Examples

  • Sauerland traveling traders were of a certain importance from the 16th to 19th centuries. In the beginning there was the trade in rough wood, iron and steel goods from the closer region. Since the 18th century, the distribution of wooden goods from Wittgenstein and high-quality iron and steel goods from the county of Mark and the Bergisches Land was added. In the scythe trade , the Sauerland traveling traders had at times almost a monopoly.
  • Small items of hardware such as nails and sabers were manufactured in Willingen (Upland) in the Hochsauerland . These were sold in the traveling trade as far as Holland, Austria and Poland. Later came Linen added.
  • The history of the Sinn company (now SinnLeffers ) began with a traveling trade run by Johannes and Friedrich Sinn in the early 19th century. In 1850, Sinn made their first attempts at stationary retail : in 1850, a small "Haberdashery in detail Gebr. Sinn" was opened in Cologne .
  • Since the Fersental near Trento only allowed a small livelihood, it was mainly men who had been engaged in traveling trade from at least the first half of the 17th century until the 20th century. The so-called shopkeepers ("Krumern") practiced their profession in the entire area of ​​the Habsburg or Austro-Hungarian monarchy of that time.
  • In the 17th century, Jewish and Christian residents lived peacefully side by side in Haigerloch . Since the Jews were forbidden both from access to the guilds and from acquiring land, the Jews were left exclusively with trade as an opportunity to earn a living. One day the demand arose to lift the protection of Jews and to expel the Jewish population from Haigerloch. The surrounding villages protested against this because they profited from the traveling trade of the Jews: they were supplied by the Jews and could also pay in kind from them such as food, raw materials or utensils ( barter ).

Others

  • The more remote villages and farms were that were visited by pedlars, the more important they were before the advent of newspapers and broadcasting as distributors' of news and rumors that would otherwise possibly with the discontinuations of the church services were discussed.
  • Watches, e.g. B. cuckoo clocks from the Black Forest were sold in the traveling trade.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bockauer Laborantenführer ( Memento of the original dated February 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bockau.de
  2. ↑ The Flemish Road . Wandering trade from the Netherlands and Westphalia and Russia , edited by Dexia Bank et al., Brussels 2004
  3. ↑ see also www.heimatverein-wermsdorf.de