Schottsche Karre

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Schottsche Karre at the then horse market in Hamburg , 1898
Schottsche Karre, at "Sand" in Harburg, 1897

Schottsche Karre or Scottish Karre is the name most commonly used in Hamburg for a two-wheeled wooden cart that was pushed or pulled by people.

A Schottsche Karre has an approximately 1.5 square meter loading area with side supports made of wooden boards or iron profiles about 20 centimeters high on both sides and at the front end, across below is an axle with iron-tyred wooden spoked wheels with a diameter of 80 to 130 centimeters on both sides . The cart is moved and steered on a pair of long bars on one of the front sides. Three sturdy iron brackets are attached to ensure that it does not tip over, two under the stile mountings and the third under the opposite front.

Dealers used Schottsche carts to deliver goods to their customers , and craftsmen used them to transport work equipment in the immediate vicinity. Such carts for small transports could be rented at rental stations. They were used by the poorer population when moving .

Origin of name

One version of the origin of the name "Schottsche Karre" says that at the beginning of the 17th century in Hamburg this device was used as a "punitive and corrective means" for delinquent delinquents. For example, for the removal of garbage and rubbish, two or three people, and hung with as many bells as they had to serve years in prison, were stretched in front of these carts. The bell ringing of the approaching discharge signaled the house staff that they were approaching, whereupon they could put the ash buckets etc. on the gutter to be emptied . The first delinquent to be punished or appointed on September 7, 1609, was a certain Michel Schotte .

After his release from prison, Schotte had used the cart device to build up a business, he let himself be named "cart boy" and from then on took over the supervision and management of the prisoners harnessed to the cart.
The term Scottish cart was still in use in the first half of the 20th century.

Exhibits

  • A Schottsche cart loaded with a wine barrel is exhibited in the Brunsbüttel local history museum .
  • There is such a cart in the Emigration Museum on the Hamburg Veddel, as it was used to bring the emigrants' mostly extensive luggage to the ships for the crossing.
  • A replica of a Schott cart is set up on the steps leading to the museum harbor in Büsum , and another at the port of Tönning .
  • The Schottsche Karre expressly lists a tariff overview of the prices for the use of the Ost -Hemmoor transporter ferry from 1929. A trip cost 40 Reichspfennig, four times as much as the crossing for a single person and ten Reichspfennig more than the crossing for a head of cattle.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburger Morgenpost , magazine "Unser Hamburg", issue 1/2017, "Part 8 Time Travel to Old Hamburg", pages 74 - 77 "Patron of the day was a prisoner"
  2. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: --- )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.gunter-hoffmann.de
  3. ↑ http://www.museum-brunsbuettel.de/raeume_o/flur.htm
  4. ↑ Price table suspension ferry east