Many family names are derived from occupational titles, including the name of Fassbender. The Fassbinder in the Rhineland had a traditional craft production. In the "old town, there was until 1965 the Cooper Street, where many barrels, vats, tubs and tubs (handmade paper) prepared previously. The Name Fassbender appears nowhere as frequently as in Cologne and surrounding areas. The oldest of" barrel "derived name records can be found in Cologne in the 12th Century, for example, Richart Fazbender (see Penguin Atlas of Names, Munich 1998, p. 122). The barrel since antiquity to the 20th century's most important packaging material was almost all foods and liquids used for; particularly for wine, beer, flour, sugar, salt, oil, butter, fat, sauerkraut, herring, etc. Also for chemical liquids (alcohol, petroleum, industrial oils, lye, etc.). In ancient times, the barrel of gunpowder was indispensable. In northwestern Germany was the cooper cooper, in eastern Germany, Bohemia and Silesia Büttner and Bittner, in Bavaria and Austria, Pittner. The name ties, copper, and coopers for the same trade are found more in the southern German and Austrian area.
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