Roquelor
Roquelor (or French Roquelaure) is the name of a heavy woolen coat that was worn by the infantrymen of the Prussian army of the 18th century , whose equipment did not otherwise include a coat. Roquelors were carried outdoors by the guards in cold and stormy weather and given to their successors when the guard changed . Each company had only a few copies. Details are not known about the appearance of the Roquelor. It was probably a cycling coat without sleeves with one or more capes , because it was supposed to protect the rifle from moisture and frost . According to other sources, it had sleeves or a hood . The Roquelor was out of uniform and wore no badges.
It was abolished as a result of the army reform in 1808, when uniform coats were reintroduced into the Prussian army after more than a hundred years. Travelers and coachmen wore the Roquelor well into the 19th century. Its name probably goes back to the French Marshal Duke Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure (1656-1738), who served in the age of Louis XIV .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ekhart Berckenhagen, Gretel Wagner: The colorful skirt in Prussia. Military and civil uniforms from the 17th to the 20th century in drawings, engravings and photographs from the holdings of the Berlin Art Library (= publication by the Berlin Art Library. Vol. 87). Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3-88609-029-9 , p. 83.
- ↑ Great General Staff (ed.): The Prussian Army of the Wars of Liberation. Volume 1: The Prussian Army in 1812 (= documented contributions and research on the history of the Prussian army. H. 21/25 = Bd. 5, ZDB -ID 988260-1 ). Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1912, p. 126.