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Record Nr.

UNINA9910563178503321

Autore

Büchner Robert <1933->

Titolo

St. Christoph am Arlberg : die Geschichte von Hospiz und Taverne, Kapelle und Bruderschaft, von Brücken, Wegen und Strassen, Säumern, Wirten und anderen Menschen an einem Alpenpass (Ende des 14. bis Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts) / / Robert Büchner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Böhlau, 2005

Vienna, Austria : , : Böhlau Verlag

Cologne, Germany : , : Weimar, , 2005

ISBN

9783205772828

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (523 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Soggetti

Monasteries - Austria - Sankt Christoph am Arlberg

Marginality, Social - Austria - Sankt Christoph am Arlberg

Beggars - Austria - Sankt Christoph am Arlberg

Taverns (Inns) - Austria - Sankt Christoph am Arlberg

Sankt Christoph am Arlberg (Austria) History

Sankt Christoph am Arlberg (Austria) Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The studies available to date on St. Christoph am Arlberg are essentially a history of the brotherhood there, supplemented by a few essays on the history of transport. Now, based on extensive new source material, the history of the hospice and the chapel since 1386 is rolled out again and decisively corrected. The most important result is the proof that the Brotherhood of St. Christoph was pure fiction, an invention of business-minded alms collectors and hosts. Above all, however, the book is about those people who lived on and from the Arlberg or who crossed it. From the end of the 15th century until the time of Emperor Josef II, there was only a mule track across the Arlberg, and traffic was determined by Saumers from Vorarlberg and Switzerland who brought Schmalz to Innsbruck and Hall and



transported salt back from there. In addition, there are path makers, mountain guides, cattle and salt handlers, miners, guards, postmen, soldiers, pilgrims, travellers, merchants, beggars, traveling people, rabble and others. to speak. For them, the Arlberg was once, occasionally, frequently or always the station and centre of their lives and they had learned to adapt to the rough nature in the high mountains, with fog, storm, ice, snow, avalanches, mudslides, falling rocks, rock falls, floods, To live weather change.