Pechsieder
Pech boiler , even pitch burner , medieval also cup or Becherer , gained by separating the resin or tar from conifers (pine and spruce) by heating or distilling the volatiles from the water and bad luck . The dark-colored fabric served various purposes such as u. a. for Auspichen of beer barrels (Pichpech), for the preparation of oil of turpentine , ointments , axle grease , leather and shoe creams or caulking of ship hulls (ship pitch).
In the German forests in particular, the then important trade item was obtained in the pitch huts .
literature
- Rudi Palla: The lexicon of the lost professions . Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-8289-4152-4 .
Web links
- Pechsieder in the Austria Forum, Heimatlexikon (based on Rudi Palla: Disappeared Work , Vienna - Munich 2010)
- Bad luck . Publications in the bibliographic database of the Regesta Imperii .
Individual evidence
- ^ Pechsieder. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 13 : N, O, P, Q - (VII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1889 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ). Pitch burner . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 13 : N, O, P, Q - (VII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1889, Sp. 1518 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ^ Matthias Lexer: Middle High German Dictionary , 1, Sp. 137 in the dictionary network