Crowd guard
As Scharwächter a member of a guard team was called in some places at night as a guard drew group through the streets to take care of the maintenance of public order and sleep. The vernacular also knew the name for an extraordinary night watch service to supervise and support the night watchman when there is an increased risk of fire, for example when there is a strong foehn in the mountain valleys of the Alps .
A patrolling watch that served in times of war was also referred to as the Scharwacht . The name has been transferred to the small watchtowers at the corners of the ramparts of fortifications, the crowd watchtowers .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon , Volume 4, Leipzig 1841, p. 61; Transcription at zeno.org .
- ↑ a b Ernst Götzinger : Reallexicon of German antiquities . Leipzig 1885., p. 896; Transcription at zeno.org