sideboard

Larder veneered with Italian walnut, polished. Heavily burdened, often broken, richly profiled cornices. Inlays: bands of dark-colored and light pear wood. Theresian, 1740.

Modern sideboard, 20th century

A sideboard is a half-height, two- or multi-door piece of furniture for storing tablecloths and tableware with a work surface for serving dishes . A kitchen buffet , in Austria also credenza called, reached the full height of the cabinet. The upper structure stands on plinths or pillars above the largely free sideboard.

Word origin

The word sideboard goes back to Middle High German anrihte . The word buffet (especially in Switzerland and Austria also buffet or buffet ) can be traced back to the middle of the 16th century as the Swiss German word puffet , which in turn was borrowed from the Italian buffetto . In the 18th century it was borrowed again from the French buffet . The origin of the Italian or French word is unknown.

The obsolete today sideboard was in the 15th century from the Italian credenza borrowed. The Italian word goes to the medieval Latin credentia ( "Trust") returns the word meaning a "sideboard" acquired the furniture from the Italian phrase "far la credenza" for the purposes of testing for loyalty and faith, which described the job of a butler or servant, to taste the food and drinks at a side table for his master. After Friedrich Kluge , the word sideboard regression from proffer what "offer, proffer (pre-cost food)" means.

history

A buffet is often called a "sideboard" and vice versa. However, there is one significant historical difference in the creation of these two pieces of furniture. The buffet evolved from the chest, the sideboard evolved from the table. In the dictionary Die Teütsch spraach: All words, names, and ways of speaking in Hochteütscher spraach, ordered according to the ABC, and with good Latin very diligently and actually interpreted, the gleychen bithär never sown from the year 1561 is both the credentztisch (or the credentz banck ) as well as the credentz as “sideboard, buffet”.

In the case of antiques in particular, one can still clearly see the differences in development, starting with the late Gothic. Sideboards were often free in the room and decorated on all sides. Buffets were already on the wall back then and are not decorated on the back. The buffet was particularly popular in the historicist era when it, usually richly decorated, became a special showpiece of the “parlor” of a middle-class household. Slightly more simply designed sideboards and buffets were used as kitchen cupboards, for storing dishes or supplies. Such kitchen cabinets, often in the Gelsenkirchen Baroque style , were still made in large numbers after the Second World War before the fitted kitchen caught on.

Web links

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Wiktionary: Credence  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Duden | Sideboard | Spelling, meaning, definition, synonyms. Retrieved April 30, 2018 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Bibliographical Institute (Mannheim). Dudenredaktion .: Duden, the dictionary of origin: Etymology of the German language . 5., rework. Edition Dudenverlag, Mannheim 2014, ISBN 978-3-411-04075-9 , p. 194, 486, 698 .
3. ^ Friedrich Kluge: Etymological dictionary of the German language . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-084503-7 , p. 411 ( Google Books [accessed May 4, 2018]).
4. ↑ Josua Maaler: Credentz . In: Die Teütsch spraach: All words, names, and ways of speaking in Hochteütscher spraach, ordered according to the ABC, and with good Latin very diligently and actually interpreted, the gleychen never saw . Froschoverus, 1561, p. 95 ( online [accessed on September 19, 2019] digitized by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek).