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The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894
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1Though Caspar Reichel's son Christian, and his cousin Johann, were admitted masters in 1697, on the same day, the two must have pursued their trades in separate houses, as it would have been highly unseemly for two, or, worse still, for three masters of one family, to live with their families in one house, where in addition room had also to be found for a widow of the family. One Reichel house was situated at the epoch of the foundation of the Guild, in the middle of the market place, where it stood until the year 1840, while the other, so far as the available sources of information throw light upon the subject, was beyond it in the market place, next to the Burgher Schönfelder's house. As far as the families of the remaining five founders are concerned there is not sufficient reference in the Book of the Guild to prove their possession of burgher houses, yet there is little doubt that such proof could be found elsewhere.
3In such cases at a later period, as make no specific mention of the want of a householder's qualification on the admission of any person to mastership, we may accept without hesitation the inference that the admitted master was a burgher or householder.
5The designation of "Exiles from Graslitz" must not convey the idea that these exiles had only just settled down, bought burgher houses, and immediately started the Guild of Violin-makers in Markneukirchen. Just as in Prussia the French refugees, and in the next generation the Salzburghers, were harboured by the Hohenzollerns (ever the
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