Tinker
A tinker does a flick of manual activity by repairing kettles intended for cooking and mending holes.
history
The Krünitzlexikon describes the tinkerers as “ a kind of coppersmiths who roam the country with old copper and their tools, and especially to the country folk, or to places where there are no proper coppersmiths, the damaged kettles and other similar equipment mend or mend it. They commonly hang around on the streets of the cities and scream out their work. But the right and proper coppersmiths consider them to be troublemakers and botchers. "
The blacksmiths' guild partially enforced regulations that forbade the tinkerers to do mending in places with branches of coppersmiths. In Southeastern Europe , repairing metal kitchen appliances was also a specialty of certain Roma groups, e. B. especially the Kalaidzhi .
Designations
Regional Flick the artisans were also Stöer called. Also Kesselbesserer, Kesselbüßer, Kessellapper, in Low German also Ketelflicker, Ketellapper, Pottlapper. In the UK and parts of Ireland , the foreign term "Tinker" goes for the coming of the majority population of minority Pavee to the repair work with the material tin (Engl. Tin ) back. In Austria the term "Rastelbinder" was used for tinkerers and sieve makers.
Like scissors grinders , coppersmiths , broom- makers and other craftsmen, they moved from place to place with mobile homes and families. They camped next to the villages and set up their workshops and fireplaces there.
If they went into the localities, they would collect the pots and pans in need of repair and solder the holes again, thicken the boiler bottoms again or re-tin the boiler. Today the craft in Europe is only practiced by Roma in Romania .
Others
Several idioms are derived from this profession : “He scolds / drinks like a tinker” or “They fight / fight like a tinker” . Both want to say that you scold, drink, hit or argue particularly loudly, vulgarly or excessively. The word Katzelmacher (disrespectful for "southerners") should also be related to it.
Franz Lehár's operetta Der Rastelbinder plays the tinkerers and traveling craftsmen in a rural Slovak village. In the fine arts, especially in painting , depictions of tinkerers and their families were a popular subject.
See also
- Soldering , a tinker technique
- Junk dealers
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.kruenitz1.uni-trier.de/xxx/k/kk02153.htm
- ↑ According to a can. prussia. Ordinance, v. 11 Jul. 1735, the boilers = guides and flickers in those Churmärkischen cities, where copper = smiths live, and half a mile around such cities in the flat country, the house pulling and mending is not allowed. from Krünitz, http://www.kruenitz1.uni-trier.de/xxx/k/kk02153.htm
- ↑ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2973659/Inside-Roma-bride-market-Teenage-girls-matched-future-husbands-open-air-exchange-Bulgaria.html Inside the Roma bride market: Teenage girls matched up with their future husbands at open-air exchange in Bulgaria. By Corey Charlton for MailOnline, Published: 18:54 BST, 28 February 2015 | Updated: 11:33 BST, March 2, 2015.
- ^ Austrian Dictionary, 41st, updated edition. Published on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture. On the basis of the official regulations. School edition. School book number: 126184. With the decision of the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture of February 21, 2005, GZ 25.383 / 0001-V / 9/2004, in accordance with Section 14 Paragraphs 2 and 5 of the School Education Act, Federal Law Gazette No. 472/86 and in accordance with the current curricula as being suitable for teaching at secondary schools for the 1st to 4th grade and at general schools for the 1st to 8th grade and at the polytechnic schools in the subject of German. Österreichischer Bundesverlag Schulbuch GmbH & Co. KG, Vienna 2006, 2009. ISBN 978-3-209-06309-0 . Quote: “Ras | tel | bin | der (earlier): wandering tinker; Sieve maker "