DOI issue:
No. 165 (December, 1906)
DOI article:Levetus, A. S.: Old Austro-Hungarian peasant furniture
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20716#0250
Old Austro-Hungarian Peasant Furniture
distribution of the household utensils, and
it will be noticed how great was their
variety. It will be seen, too, that the
hencoop also had its place in the kitchen.
The small oven to the right served to
dry the faggots used for lighting purposes ;
the butter-churn also has its place, and
there is an implement for cutting the
white cabbage used for sauerkraut, a
favourite article of food in all these dis-
tricts. The fireplace is an exact copy of
one dating from the seventeenth century,
which is still to be seen in a peasant's
house in central Styria; all the utensils,
fig. 13.—weavers guild chest from jablunkau, silesia
i8th century which are original and come from the
(Museum fur Sst. Volkskunde, Vienna) same partj are of different ages, from
early sixteenth to the end of the seven-
vary but teenth cen-
little in tUry"
form ■ they ^ ''-:^XH>') In FiS- 3
mentation^ ' ^ ^^ in white and
formed one 1 red, the Ty-
oftheprinci- fig. 14.—peasant chairs and table from moravia r°l colours,
pal features (Museum fur Volkskunde, Vienna) Itdatesfrom
of the house-
hold. In olden times the master of the . -
house was the only one who was favoured
with a chair, and it was usually presented
to him as a wedding gift by his bride.
The spinning-wheel here shown comes
from Nove" Straseci, in Bohemia, a place
once celebrated for homespun linens.
Fig. 2 shows an old Styrian kitchen
known as a " smoke " kitchen; similar
ones are still to be seen in the remote
districts of Styria. The centre of a
peasant's house was formed by a corridor
or hall: on the one side was the kitchen,
on the other the living-room, which also
served as a bedroom. In winter meals
were taken in the kitchen, in summer in
. fig. 15.—wedding chest from bohemia
the hall. The illustration shows the exact (Mdhrisches Gewerbe-Museum, Btiinn)
230
distribution of the household utensils, and
it will be noticed how great was their
variety. It will be seen, too, that the
hencoop also had its place in the kitchen.
The small oven to the right served to
dry the faggots used for lighting purposes ;
the butter-churn also has its place, and
there is an implement for cutting the
white cabbage used for sauerkraut, a
favourite article of food in all these dis-
tricts. The fireplace is an exact copy of
one dating from the seventeenth century,
which is still to be seen in a peasant's
house in central Styria; all the utensils,
fig. 13.—weavers guild chest from jablunkau, silesia
i8th century which are original and come from the
(Museum fur Sst. Volkskunde, Vienna) same partj are of different ages, from
early sixteenth to the end of the seven-
vary but teenth cen-
little in tUry"
form ■ they ^ ''-:^XH>') In FiS- 3
mentation^ ' ^ ^^ in white and
formed one 1 red, the Ty-
oftheprinci- fig. 14.—peasant chairs and table from moravia r°l colours,
pal features (Museum fur Volkskunde, Vienna) Itdatesfrom
of the house-
hold. In olden times the master of the . -
house was the only one who was favoured
with a chair, and it was usually presented
to him as a wedding gift by his bride.
The spinning-wheel here shown comes
from Nove" Straseci, in Bohemia, a place
once celebrated for homespun linens.
Fig. 2 shows an old Styrian kitchen
known as a " smoke " kitchen; similar
ones are still to be seen in the remote
districts of Styria. The centre of a
peasant's house was formed by a corridor
or hall: on the one side was the kitchen,
on the other the living-room, which also
served as a bedroom. In winter meals
were taken in the kitchen, in summer in
. fig. 15.—wedding chest from bohemia
the hall. The illustration shows the exact (Mdhrisches Gewerbe-Museum, Btiinn)
230