The garb cutters, also wall cutters mentioned, were buyers of the Middle Ages, who acted with foreign Tuchen. Their commodities originated first from the Toskana, from the Netherlands and Flanders, later also from Swabia, Aachen or England.

They sold the commodity ballenweise or in the "“cutout"”. The right to the cutout, thus the cut off-wise sales that cloth, was frequently cause for the controversy with the shopkeepers, the webers and tailoring. The garb cutters came already early to wealth and connected themselves with the Patriziern. They sat soon in many German cities in the advice and won in such a way at political influence.

Their own Gilde, the garb cutters of the other quarters created in the city Braunschweig in the old part of town resident garb cutter followed the Gilde of the Lakenmacher. A certification of the reputation and the wealth of the Braunschweiger garb cutters, that were the most distinguished and oldest Gilde of the city, is in the old part of town in 13. and 14. Century builds garb house.

Literature

• IHK Braunschweig (Hrsg.): '' The garb house to Braunschweig. Of "„the Kophus of the Wandtsnidere of the old part of town "“to "„the Chamber of Commerce and industrie Braunschweig "“, Braunschweig o.J. (around 1933)
• Jahn: The old part of town market in Braunschweig. History and stories, (= city archives and municipal library Braunschweig. Small writings; Volume 18), Braunschweig 1988
• E. Kober: The beginnings of the German Wollgewerbes, 1908
• Werner Spiess: History of the city Braunschweig in the Nachmittelalter, Braunschweig 1966
• M. The garb cut in the German cities of the Middle Ages, 1915

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