Căni mari de breaslă şi de Vecinătate din Transilvania
Big guild and neighbourhood jugs from Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: Saxon neighbourhood groups from Transylvania are the only local groups in Europe, still alive in modern times, which never became feudal and always interacted with the state. According to Regulations from 1376, between 25th of December and the 1st of January the heads were elected. It was then that they handed over the guild symbols: the guild chest, the neighbourhood badge, the guild flag and the jug. The last one was in the administration of the “father”, head of the journeymen who organized their meetings four times a year and who took part to the leading of young men Association. The jug had an important role because it was used for collecting the sinners’ wine (the wine was always considered the punishment for their mistakes towards the Regulations of the guild). The Museum collection contains almost 30 neighbourhood jugs made in the ceramic workshops of Sibiu, Sighişoara, Făgăraş, Drăuşeni, Ocna Sibiului. They are dated and some of them are even marked with the neighbourhood “father’s” name.

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