Fast (pitcher)
A Schnell is a slim, tall, cylindrically tapered beer mug made of whitish-gray stoneware with a handle and metal lid. Successors to the Schnell in the second half of the 17th century were the more compact tankard and the bulbous and lower-handled mug , both of which also mostly had a pewter lid .
They were made in Siegburg in the 16th and 17th centuries and are usually richly decorated with allegories . At that time, Siegburg belonged to the Duchy of Berg under Wilhelm the Rich (1539–1592), and therefore frequent motifs on Schnellen are the coat of arms of Jülich-Kleve-Berg and the portrait of Wilhelm the Rich.
Schnellen can be seen in the Hetjens Museum in Düsseldorf , the Langerwehe Pottery Museum and the Raeren Pottery Museum (Belgium), but also, for example, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art . The Eschweiler Altstadtsträßchen Quick Lane is probably named after the Fast, which were purchased there in 1656 by a brewer and popular quickly.
See also
literature
- The Schnellengasse. In: Series of publications by the Eschweiler history association. Volume 6. Eschweiler 1984, pp. 69-76
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Mathar and Rudolf Spiegel: Kölsche beer and breweries . Greven-Verlag, Cologne 1991, 2nd edition, ISBN 3-7743-0248-0 , p. 126f.
