Thorsberg pants

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One of the Thorsberg pants (front view)
Detail of the waistband

As Thornberg pants (also: Thornberg pants or Thorsberger pants ) refers pants , which in thorsberg moor were found. They have a cut that can be considered the basic pattern of early medieval men's legwear in Europe and that was still to be found in a similar form centuries after the Thorsberg specimens were made. In illustrations for Passio Kiliani , trousers based on this basic pattern can still be found as well as among the examples from Haithabu , which date from the 11th century.

Two copies of the Thorsberg trousers are in Schloss Gottorf , but only one of the two is on display in the exhibition rooms of Schloss Gottorf. The trousers found in the Thorsberger Moor belong in a victim context . Numerous finds in Thorsberg were made by the teacher Helvig Conrad Engelhardt between 1858 and 1861.

description

Thorsberg trousers 1 (inventory number FS 3684) are made of woolen cloth in a lozenge twill . Warp and weft threads have a thread thickness of 0.5 mm, with a weaving density of 14 z- twisted threads per centimeter in the warp and s-twisted threads in the weft. The starting edges of the fabric are made using the tablet weaving technique. The Thorsberg trousers 2 (inventory number FS 3684) were made from a finer cloth with 20 threads per centimeter in the warp and 12.5 threads in the weft. The pants 1 consist of 12 pieces of fabric, pants 2 are only fragmentarily preserved. Both consist of a rectangular buttock and two narrow leg tubes, which are shaped into the required shape with several wedge-shaped pieces in the crotch. In at least one of the two Thorsberg specimens there are also remains of socks, which were probably only open above the heel . This made it easier to put on, as did a slit at the level of the calves that could be closed with laces. The trousers were probably originally fitted with loops for a belt .

Dating

The dating of the pants is controversial. The German Hosiery Museum assumes that it was manufactured in the 2nd or 3rd century AD, Mechthild Müller dates it to around the year 175 AD. The 4th century is often mentioned as the time of origin.

literature

  • Karl Schlabow : Textile finds from the Iron Age in Northern Germany (=  Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history . No. 15 ). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1976, ISBN 3-529-01515-6 , pp. 23, 76-77, 162-169, 170-174 .
  • Katrin Kania: The Thorsberg trousers - a masterpiece of Iron Age tailoring . In: J. Leskovar, R. Karl (Hrsg.): Interpretierte Eisenzeit. Case studies, methods, theory. Conference contributions from the 2nd Linz Discussions on Interpretative Iron Age Archeology . Upper Austrian State Museum, Linz 2007, ISBN 978-3-85474-174-9 , p. 277-291 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Julian Decker, Development of the leg warmer up to the first quarter of the 14th century (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  2. ↑ Johannes Hoops: Reallexikon der Germanic antiquity . tape 15 . Walter de Gruyter, 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016649-1 , p. 136 ( Preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ^ Karl Schlabow : Textile finds from the Iron Age in Northern Germany (=  Göttingen writings on prehistory and early history . No. 15 ). Wachholtz, Neumünster 1976, ISBN 3-529-01515-6 , pp. 76-77 .
  4. ↑ discussion in a Nähforum with recourse to Schlabows descriptions
  5. ↑ Brief description on the website of the German Hosiery Museum ( Memento from March 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ^ Mechthild Müller: The clothing according to sources of the early Middle Ages: textiles and fashion from Charlemagne to Heinrich III. In: Heinrich Beck , Dieter Geuenich , Heiko Steuer (Hrsg.): Supplementary volumes to the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . No. 33 . Berlin / New York 2003, pp. 70 .
  7. ↑ Clothing - General Words. In: skjoldmus.de. Retrieved February 28, 2017 .