Cost of living in German towns

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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

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BRUNSWICK. 131 Weekly Wages. Baking :— First Bakers Second Bakers Third Bakers Municipal Employees :— Roadsweepers Carmen Paviors Paviors’ Labourers Road-menders Gas Stokers Gas Yard Labourers Labourers in Water Works Tramways : Electricity Works :— Drivers Conductors Inspectors ... Engine-men Stokers Installators Fitters Weekly Hours of Labour. 24s. to 26s. 20s „ 24s. 19s. „ 20s. 20s. 22s. 9d. 28s. 6d. 17s. 20s. 29s. 23s. 8d. 23s. 19s. to 22s. 18s. 6d. 25s. to 29s. 23s. 5d. „ 27s. 4d. 18s. to 20s. Id. 21s. to 26s. 5d. 24s. 7d. 57 66 57 57 57 72 60 60 74 74 74 60 60 60 60 Wages in the building, engineering, and printing trades are about Í 0 per cent, lower than in Berlin, the wages of skilled men in these trades being 89, 91, and 92 per cent, respectively of the wages for corresponding trades in Berlin. The wages of labourers in both the building and engineering trades in Brunswick are 89 per cent, of those in Berlin. Housing and Rents. The majority of the working-class population of Brunswick live in dwellings consisting of two or three rooms and a kitchen, and in considering the character of these dwellings, reference may properly be made to Old Brunswick first, since a very large proportion of the working classes resides in this quarter of the town. Here whole streets of houses date back to the 17th and even to the 16th centuries. These old streets are very picturesque, each storey overhanging the one below it, and the whole of the roofs being covered * with red tiles. The fronts of the houses are uniformly covered with plaster except in the case of the better class buildings, whose façades display old carved beams. The houses are built in rows, with no break as a rule from one end of the street to the other, and are mostly three storeys high. Entrance is gained in each case by a door opening directly into a lobby or corridor, varving from 3 to 6 feet in width, which runs right through the house to a courtyard at the back, do the right and left of this corridor are doors leading to the ground-floor tenements, one of which is frequently occupied by the owner of the house, who is in many cases a small tradesman. The corridor floor is invariably paved with brick, and from the centre or rear a narrow, steep staircase leads to the landing on the first floor. Opening the door at the end of the corridor, the visitor steps into the small courtyard, the dimensions of which vary from 10 feet square to 15 by 18 feet. Not unfrequently, even in Old Brunswick, gardens are situated at the back of working-class dwellings, although the tenants rarely have the use oí them. As back-houses are comparatively rare at Brunswick, the courtyard is not as a rule so gloomy and depressing as in many German towns. orkshops, stables and the like are often situated there, but as these buildings are not very high they do not obstruct light and ventilation to any great extent. Ihe watei tap or the pump which serves lor the use of all the tenements in the house, is found m the courtyard, as are also the closets. Lhe lattei «ne usually inadequate in number, one often serving for every three dwellings. It is estimated that 20 per cent, of the houses in Brunswick still have the cesspool or the pail system, and naturally most of these houses are in working-class districts. In the old part of the town considerable variety obtains in the arrangement of the tenements in the upper storeys. Generally, however, at the head of the R 2 29088

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