Hurdy Gurdy is called on English a Drehleier. Hurdy Gurdy Girls were in 19. Century dance girl in North America.

Origin of the first Hurdy Gurdy Girls

The villages in the Taunus behind Butzbach in the Wetterau and the country were the center of the fly whisk trade. From the places Espa (it belonged to the duchy Nassau) and Oes (it belonged at that time to Solms Braunfels) already pulled for the 1820er years each year to England and sold there as a land driver fly whisk and returned afterwards with well made money from England again. Fly whisks were to be repelled in time at that time also in Central Europe importantly around the pervasive flies whether the hessian from Espa, in home working were manufactured fly whisk particularly effective or particularly beautiful are (still) not well-known. In any case the trade of the land drivers was so lucrative that ever more wanted to make their money thereby. Soon to attract on the markets with Drehleiern (Hurdy Gurdys) also music made around customers and women and girls, who had along-pulled, sang and danced to it. Since 1824, 1825 pulled also inhabitant from Maibach, Bodenrod, Fauerbach v.das is called high and Niederweisel abroad, to England, in addition, to Russia, Holland and Denmark, Norway, Sweden and North America, since 1865 even until to California.

It lasted not for a long time, there became the business with the girls the main thing. The girls did not hire themselves with the fly whisk dealer, in some villages gave it single young girls more. Girls landed in pubs (Saloons), dance houses and brothels of the new world. The fly whisk trade changed to the white slave trade and for the promotion of the prostitution. Particularly from the hessian coming Hurdy Gurdy Girls were common in completely America and under this name admits. Already (1836) there was a prohibition of school children to carry forward and the taking along of single woman persons was officially limited, however without large success. The temptations of the money made easily in the comparison to the homeland were too large, although many returned '' pleased '' girls often without means and ill from the foreigner.

A cause of the

1834 wrote George and Friedrich Ludwig Weidig in Butzbach and pouring to the hessian land messenger. There descriptive one described, which emergency prevailed at that time in Hessen. The inhabitants of the poor villages forced the terrible poverty within the rural range of the Grand Duchy of Hessen to home working. After the spring order in the winter the manufactured goods - fly whisk, broom, decoration small box, decoration plate - had to be sold, one pulled therefore with them over landbetween 1825 and 1875 were particularly large the poverty. Population of over, possession on fragmentation and harvest failures led to hunger emergencies. Many therefore also emigrated. Some villages lost half of their population in the course of 50 years to approx. 1875.

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