The children of a farm were firmly scheduled helpers in the farming year. Many tasks related to flax cultivation were in the hands of children. For many a farmer's child, the work was a chore, but it also marked transitions. Depending on their age, the budding farmer or young farmer's wife was assigned other tasks. Of course, this also made them proud.
On the day of the wedding, the bride's household goods and trousseau chests were brought to the newlyweds' new home, not quietly and secretly, but with a large court. Until the 1960s, it was customary in the Mรผhlviertel for the bride to receive flax and linen as a wedding gift from her family. It was a treasure, her very personal possession, a life insurance policy that the woman could cash in when the need was greatest.
No farmhouse in the upper Mรผhlviertel or the Bavarian Forest was complete without various figures of saints. A crucifix watched over the family in the corner of the room, the Virgin Mary was often found in a small niche under the gable and above the dining table there was a...
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