Spannmann
Spannmann referred to an unskilled or semi-skilled laborer in agriculture and later also in mining.
The term is derived from the unit Spann , an old Swedish measure of volume (around 73 liters) for grain and other dry goods such as coal. In the 18th century it appeared frequently in northern Germany and the German mining areas, especially in the Ruhr area and in the Rhineland , where spanning was also a measure of length.
The term Spannmann is largely uncommon today and in 1980 had no entry in the Duden . Even the Brockhaus Encyclopedia from 1993 no longer knows the term. It is only used very sporadically in the sense of “preparatory worker” or “helper”, and in prison language as a term for the inmate of a two-person cell.
Web links
- Economic encyclopedia online
- Entry on Spannmann on www.ruhrgebietsssprache.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Georg Krünitz, Joseph Georg Traßler: Economic encyclopedia, or general system of state, city, house and agriculture . Ed .: Joseph Georg Traßler. tape 64 . Brno 1796 ( uni-trier.de ).
- ↑ Bibliographisches Institut (Ed.): The orthography . Duden . 18th edition. tape 10 . Mannheim, Vienna, Zurich 1980 ( duden.de ).
- ↑ Bibliographical Institute (Ed.): Brockhaus Enzyklopädie . 19th edition. tape 20 . Mannheim 1993.
- ↑ Query result "Spannmann" in the vocabulary portal. Number: 2 Frequency class: 22 (very low). (No longer available online.) University of Leipzig , archived from the original on September 13, 2009 ; accessed on January 9, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
