!!!Störarbeit

Stoerarbeit, rural crafts in which neither the farm owner and his 
family nor the servants were skilled. Wandering craftsmen (the 
so-called "Stoerer") worked as masons, saddlers, smiths, 
cartwrights etc. and made shoes, clothing and textiles in the 
customers´ homes in exchange for board and daily pay. This 
practice constituted a violation of the rules regulating crafts (from 
which the term derived: stoeren = impair). Some craftsmen were 
dependent on this source of income, as neither the yield from their 
own land nor their regular workshops provided enough income. Today 
this form of work is no longer practised.


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