Treideln - treilen - trekken - jagen - bomätschen ...: Ergänzendes zum gleichnamigen illustrierten Aufsatz in DSA 25,2002

Abstract

The author's article "Treideln - treilen - trekken - jagen - bomätschen ..." appearing in DSA 25, 2002 (Ellmers Festschrift), pp. 383ff. is hereby followed up with an addendum presenting several verbal and visual supplements deemed significant to the subject. When preparing the initial contribution, the author did not yet have the respective material and/or knowledge required for the presentation of these additions at his disposal. The addendum discusses and illustrates the following: a set of German regional towing regulations of 1845; the wreck of an inland vessel of the Roman period, found in the Netherlands, possibly powered by towing; a rare German pictorial source on Dutch towing, dated 1687; a North American pictorial source of the second half of the nineteenth century, showing the rare combination of capstan towing and capstan warping; a Dutch photograph of ca. 1930, providing evidence of the typically family-run canal towing operation, here the towing of a large inland barge by a man and a woman.