Röhrmeister
The Röhrmeister or tube master , a very old, today hardly practiced profession, made of tree trunks water pipes. To do this, he uses special tools such as the drawbar drill .
The wooden pipes, also called Röhrfahrten or in southern Germany and Switzerland Deichel or Teuchel , were used in the Middle Ages to distribute the water of a water art to the places of consumption. Possibly the profession goes back to antiquity , as the lead or clay pipes used for water supply in the Roman Empire were not available everywhere.
In the 17th to the half of the 19th century, the pipe master had the responsible task of watching over the city's water supply.
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“The founders of the Schaudorf gave an example of a community spirit that has been in effect to this day by building their aqueduct. They pierced in painstaking 215 pine logs of 10 cubits in length and laid it in 1783 from a source on the slopes of Kleppischberges up on their town square, at an altitude from which they schauten.Dieser the village clear Born has been running for more than 200 years first through wooden, then through clay and iron pipes and finally through those from Vinidur . To this day, the role of pipe supervisor changes from one house owner to the next every year. As a child I experienced the maintenance of the 'pipe water', the excitement of repairing damage that could quickly become critical for people and cattle in the dozen of properties "
See also
Web links
- Master Wenzels Wasserkunst , by Wolfram Christ (Arte TV). A pipe master who is still doing his job
- Krünitz, Economic Encyclopedia
- Frontinus Society; The tasks of the Röhrmeister (PDF file; 6.22 MB)
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- ↑ Helmut Petzold: "No onser Gusche". Stories in Eäberlausitzer Mundoart. Zentralhaus publications, Leipzig 1989, ISBN 3-7444-0106-5 ( dialect book , area around Rammenau )