Cost of living in German towns

Bibliographic data

Monograph

Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

Usage license:: Get license information via the feedback formular.

M s » > 64 ASCHAFFENBURG. index number for coal is 115, and this has the effect of raising the general prices index number for Aschaffenburg to 101. The index number for rent and prices combined is 94. The working classes of Aschaffenburg in October, 1905, bought most of their coffee at the almost national price of 11 d. per lb., though as much as Is. Id. is frequently paid ; while loaf sugar cost 2\d., and white granu lated about the same. Fresh country butter cost from lio?. to Is. per lb., and artificial butter under the name of “ Palmin ” was sold to a limited extent at Id. per lb. The cheese mostly eaten was a “ Limburg ” variety, costing 5^6?. per lb., and Swiss cheese at 116?. was eaten to a small extent. The general price of bacon was 9\d. per lb., and that of ham 11c?. Two kinds of bread are consumed by the working classes. One is “ black ” bread or “ Korn- brod,” made of rye, and costing in October, 1905, 4£c?. for the English 4 lb. The other kind is “mixed white,” consisting of two-thirds wheat and one-third rye, and costing 5§d. for the English 4 lb. The former bread is most eaten. The Guild of Bakers adjusts the price from time to time according to the price of corn, and the bread can only be sold in loaves of 5 lb. and 2^ lb. The best quality wheaten flour cost about Is. per 7 lb. English. There are 43 bakers’ shops in the town, and the grocers sell little bread. Milk was sold at the rate of about 2\d. per quart. The town has a large covered market, in which vegetables, fruit, poultry and game, bakery, and to a small extent meat are exposed for sale on Wednesday and Saturday, when the spacious halls and the street below present a very busy scene. The chief business is done from 7 a.m. to 12 o’clock, after which the country people may be seen yoking up the cattle to their drays and carts preparatory to the journey home to the surrounding villages. In the fruit season the neighbouring country sends unlimited supplies of apples, pears, and plums to the market, and, at the date of this investigation, good dessert apples were selling retail at a little over 1 \d. per lb., pears at from l\d. to 2d., and cooking plums at 16?. Coal was sold to working-class houses in sacks of a cwt. at a price in October, 1905, of Is. 4fd. for nuts of second quality, mostly Ruhr coal ; while coke cost Is. per cwt. The usual price of paraffin is 10^6?. per gallon, the better American kind being chiefly in demand. The following Table shows the predominant prices of various commodities in Aschaffenburg in October, 1905, and also at the date at which the town was visited for the purposes of this enquiry :— Predominant Prices paid by the Working Classes in October, 1905, and September, 1906. Predominant Price. Commodity. October, 1905. September, 1906. Coffee Sugar :— Loaf ... ... White granulated Bacon :— Fat Streaky ... Eggs Cheese :— Limburg Swiss Butter Palmin (Margarine) Potatoes Flour (Household)... Bread :— “ Mixed White ”... Black Milk ... Coal ... Coke ... Paraffin oil per lb. » per Is. per lb. » per 7 lb. per 4 lb. per quart per cwt. per gallon 1 Id. to Is. Id. 2\d. 2\d. 9§d. 9#d. 14 5\d. lid. lid. to Is. Id. l|d. Is. O^d. Is. Id. 2&d. 2|d. lid. lid. 15 5d. to 5Id. lid. lid. to Is. Id. Id. 2ld. Is. Ofd. 5|d. 4# 2&d. Is. 4fd. Is. lO^d. 6d. 5 Id. 2%d. Is. 4\d. Is. 10\d.

Access restriction

Copyright

Metadata: Cost of living in German towns

Monograph

Table of contents

Download

Monograph

This page

Image fragment

Citation links

Citation recommendation