Natural refreshment station
From the 19th century onwards, facilities in kind were referred to as natural food stations or natural food institutions, which provided food and accommodation for the penniless, but able-bodied and job-seekers, moving people.
The purpose was: "It should also reduce the annoyance of the public through begging, achieve a control and effective fight against habitual begging, and suppress the haphazard, fragmented almsgiving."
The first stations were established around 1880. In 1892, the sponsors of such facilities in Germany formed an umbrella organization ( General Association of German Catering Stations ) and in 1893 in Switzerland.
literature
- Stursberg: About workers' colonies and food in kind, etc. Gotha, 1883
- Carl August von Huzel : The system of communal food in kind for poor travelers to combat wandering begging: illustrated based on previous experience in Württemberg. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1883
- Märker: Vagabond distress, workers' colonies and refreshment stations. Heilbronn 1887
- Minutes of the meetings of the general association of German catering stations. Berlin, 1902