He started building an almshouse in 1514, a gated community with duplexes that face the street and are situated back to back with small gardens between them. The perimeter walls have a lot of gates but they're closed to non residents between 10:00 PM and 5:00 AM.
You have to be Catholic or no apartment for you.
The rent is 1 guilder a year. While the residents are obliged to pray once a day for the Fugger family. There are additional costs. Residents have to pay 88 cents for the upkeep of the local church and 85 Euro for maintenance and heating bills. The fuggerei is still administered by the descendants of the Fugger family and financed through a foundation.
Then there's the Housing Association fees, gardening fees, public street fees, town crier fees, Pied Piper vermin control fees, cobblestone replacement fees, compulsory archery fees, jousting tournament fees, thatching fees, chamber pot disposal fees, ice delivery fees, hallucinogenic bread fees, water-carrying fees.
A tour of the place cost 4 X the annual rent. So that would be like what, 4 gilders. Whatever those are.
A lot more detailed information plus pictures of charming row houses all covered in ivy.
Place got tore up during WWII. (I bet that was us.)
Amusing Planet.
TURN DOWN THAT MUSIC!
I'm busy praying for the Fuggers.
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Descended from the world's clumsiest tribe, the Fugawi Indians.
Every morning, they'd wake up and ask each other, "Where the Fugawi?".
His mother's name is widely used in America even today.
Celebrate The Rich, Not Diversity
This just proves my own private thesis --
All good comes from the sons of Croesus.
You forgot the fee for the wheelbarrow guy who hauls the dead bodies to the dump.
"pay the piper" saying...
google: Where did the term pay the piper come from?
It originates from the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The town of Hamelin agrees to pay the Piper to get rid of all the rats. When they fail to pay him, he steals their kids. The earliest known reference, according to the article, is from AD1300.
Check out the inset nooks inside. Cooler even than Sixty’s phone nook.
I like the way the words Fugger and Fuggerei interrelate. The “rei” suffix is equivalent to our “y” suffix. For example baker —> bakery.
educhter:john; lol. Getting old, had to look up Croesus.
@CL - thanks for clarifying that - that suffix had been bugging me...
“@CL - thanks for clarifying that - that suffix had been bugging me...”
What do you suppose happens at a “ Buggerei”?
@Sixty: The German word Scheißerei usually means Durchfall but it can also mean “shit storm” as in a FUBAR situation.
Troop may have found an alternative to Brooklyn!
lol. Getting old, had to look up Croesus
I was on my way to the wiki to look up Jacob's mother's widely used name, before the shoe dropped on that one.
LOL - sorry about that MamaM. That was uncouth of me. Such is the way of my people.
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