Frost cutter
Reifschneider refers to an extinct handicraft occupation that dealt with the production of wooden barrel hoops .
Hoop cutters made wooden barrel hoops from hazelnut bushes , or more rarely from birch or linden . Depending on the thickness of the chopped hazel sticks, they were first cut in half or quartered lengthways on a splitting bench. Then the thickness of the bars could be corrected with the help of a chopping knife before they were bent into tires on the bending stand. The wooden barrel hoops so produced were then pulled onto the barrel without the use of nails.
The decline of the profession began after the First World War , when metal barrels and other containers were increasingly used. Today's wooden barrels are held together exclusively by iron hoops.
The tape breakers have the same function, but use willow wood .
A bronze monument to a tire cutter has stood in Eberbach since 2006.
Footnotes
literature
- Friedrich Zwiebler: Extinct craft: Professions that no longer exist today ... neobooks Self-Publishing, 2012
Coordinates: 49 ° 27 '48 " N , 8 ° 58' 45.5" E