Nard makers

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Nardenmacher is a medieval job title for a wood carver who made Narden , flat, elongated wooden plates that were used for making butter. The term “nard maker” appears in the local family books of the Odenwald in the 17th century .

Individual evidence

  1. Eberhard Kühner: The village in the green meadow. Gronau over the centuries . Self-published, Bensheim 1989.