plaatsbewaarster

L.s.,

Wie weet wat de taak van een plaatsbewaarster was?
In 1856 huwt iemand in Den Haag waar als beroep vermeldt wordt
plaatsbewaarster.
Ik weet niet of dit in een kerk of schouwburg of wat dan ook was.

Evertjan....

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Seat Caretaker(plaatsbewaarster)

In the chilly Dutch climate the temperature within the church could be
as low as outside. There was no heating and Mass could take a long time.

Some churches took good care of their members by renting pre-heated
footstoves. The women who provided this luxury were called
“plaatsbewaarster”.

In a large room within or next to the church was a big fireplace, as big
as in a forgery, where hundreds of small pieces of peat could smoulder
at the same time. In the same room piles of “tests” were stored, small
boxes, made of clay, which had to be filled with the smouldering peat.
After they were filled they were brought to the church is large baskets
and within the church the “tests” were put in the footstove.
The plaatsbewaarsters were busy all Sunday, before Mass with heating the
peat, filling the tests and distributing the footstoves. After Mass they
had to collect all the footstoves, remove the tests and empty them and
clean the footstoves.
It is obvious, that every Sunday a few footstoves fell between the pews,
so they had to remove the still smouldering peat and clean the church
too. You could smell it in the whole church.

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122 Gedicht op de stovenzetster-plaatsbewaarster door V.Z.
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