Work on Sundays and you go to jail
By Lothar. Filed in Germany |
We are in Bad Toelz in southern Bavaria and went on a bike tour with sun and rainshowers. We are sharing a condo with our friends Maria and Rolf and plan some bike tours over the next few days. It snowed above our village today. I was reading my book about” swabian customs in the 17th century”in bed this morning and found the above mentioned law. Unfortunately impossible in my line of work.
Bad Toelz is a 700 year old marketplace and has 2 computers for internet access at the tourist office. Back to the old times : the mayor (schultheiss ) of the village often was a rich farmer who had absolute power in the village. He often was also trained as a barber and wound surgeon and you would get a shave from the mayor/ judge of the village. He was paid according to the number of souls in his village and did not enforce morality too much since children born out of wedlock also increased his salary.
Going back out into the rainshowers now and heading for a spa with whirlpool, Lothar
Thursday, August 26th 2004 at 7:43 pm |
I miss the snow… Waaa too hot here