Seven color alphabet
The seven-colored alphabet was a system used in the imperial city of Nuremberg for filing files.
Filing system
For the filing, the 21 letters of the alphabet were combined with the colors white, green, red, yellow, brown, blue and black and from the middle of the 15th century they were used to identify or number 153 wooden shutters that hold around 5,000 files and documents from the 14th to 17th Century of the Losungamt (the highest financial authority ) included.
Further use
Letters - and not numbers, as is usual - were also used elsewhere in Nuremberg for identification: On the one hand, in the towers of the last Nuremberg city wall completed in 1452 . The old name of the Spittlertorturm, for example, is "Rot Q". With this marking scheme used for the city fortifications, the colors black, blue, red and green were sufficient. The purpose of this identification method was to assign the able-bodied male residents of the individual city districts the exact location they had to occupy in the event of an enemy siege on the city's fortifications.
Another place of use were the 40 Krambuden leased to traders on the southern Charles Bridge built in 1603/04 . The bridge was also called the ABC Bridge after this booth identification .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Peter Fleischmann: Seven-colored alphabet . In: Michael Diefenbacher , Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).
- ↑ gda.bayern.de ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Michael Diefenbacher : Charles Bridge . In: Michael Diefenbacher, Rudolf Endres (Hrsg.): Stadtlexikon Nürnberg . 2nd, improved edition. W. Tümmels Verlag, Nuremberg 2000, ISBN 3-921590-69-8 ( complete edition online ).
