Street market

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Marché d'Aligre , Paris
Street market in Villa de Zaachila , Mexico

A street market is originally a little or only loosely organized sales event in the open air to the traders come together at a particular place fresh or preserved foods (butter, cheese) and other goods of daily necessities to sell. An organization of these markets took place only in the course of time - so gradually the market stalls built only on a certain weekday and even later the market halls emerged .

The term "street market" is also used for a special form of marketplace. The elongated market square of Bayreuth is one of the representatives of the Bavarian street market .

species

The street markets include special markets such as “fruit”, “vegetable” or “fish markets”, which in recent times have often been summarized under the generic term “ farmers' markets ”, where suppliers market typical regional products. " Christmas markets " are widespread in the Advent season . If used or new goods are offered that go beyond the daily needs, one speaks of a flea market (formerly "Krammarkt").

history

There were probably street vendors - and therefore street markets - in all cultures as early as antiquity; Farmers offered their agricultural surpluses in the cities for barter or sale, sometimes walking distances of 20 or even 30 km in the morning and in the afternoon.

In earlier times, only places that had received market rights from the emperor or king could hold a market; in later times the permission of the respective sovereign (e.g. the Margrave of Brandenburg) was sufficient. The (elongated) street market was the predecessor of the (rectangular) marketplace for long-distance trade . According to the sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies , the medieval "long-distance merchant" is the pioneer of modern times . The growing long-distance trade was a driving force in the high medieval development of the country , especially east of the Elbe .

Famous Markets

The Hamburg fish market is legendary and has recently been on a tour of other cities without their own fishing port. Nice food markets are the Viktualienmarkt in Munich and the Marché d'Aligre in Paris . The Naschmarkt is considered to be Vienna's specialty market . The longest street market in Europe , however, is the Brunnenmarkt in the 16th district ( Ottakring ) in Vienna.

literature

  • Nicolle Aimée Meyer, Amanda Pilar Smith: Parisian Markets. Specialties, recipes, people. (2000), Könemann, Cologne, ISBN 3-8290-2700-1

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