Tauner
The Tauners were small farmers in Switzerland and in southern Baden . The name Tauner, Thauner or Tawner goes back to the Middle High German tagewan, tagewen or -won, which on the one hand describes the daily wage and on the other hand a measure of area, namely as much as one can order in one day in the forced labor .
The Tauners were not landless proletarians , but owned their own fields. However, the area was not big enough to support themselves and their families. They held alongside other small livestock often goats , which they on the Allmend grazed. In order to secure their livelihood, however, they had to work with the big farmers and worked for them on a daily basis.
Legally, the Tauners were on an equal footing with the farmers in the village community, but the large farmers used their property to assert their supremacy. But they were also dependent on the Tauners as workers. In addition to natural produce, they rewarded them with train services, etc., such as harvesting and haying. Very rarely were they paid for with money. The Tauners lived mainly in smaller houses, the Tauner houses.
Web links
- Niklaus Landolt: Tauner. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ The "Hochstud-Taunerhaus" in Starrkirch-Wil in Solothurn Niederamt on the outskirts of Olten. In: Monument Preservation Information. baufachinformation.de, archived from the original on March 6, 2007 ; Retrieved August 30, 2009 .
- ↑ Taunerhaus in the Ballenberg Museum. In: Pencil drawing by Heinz Schüpbach. Archived from the original on April 23, 2016 ; Retrieved August 30, 2009 .