Kontor

A warehouse or Contor (from French comptoir " pay table " in German post also Comtoir ) was in the late Middle Ages, a branch of the Hanseatic merchants abroad and is an obsolete term for the office and the branches of banks.

History

Warehouses formed a ( ampersand ) city in the city and had to start their own jurisdiction. How to Chose the merchants of a counting so-called older men ( also comes hansae, Oldermann or alderman ), who had the oversight of the meeting in the office merchants. Later regulated mainly Lübeck 's statutes and regulations in the offices.

In addition to numerous other retail branches (called factories ) had the Hanseatic League four Warehouses. These were the Hanseatic Kontor in Bruges, Bergen ( Tyske Brygge ), Novgorod ( Peterhof ) and London ( Steelyard ). The Novgorod Schra is the only complete collection of rules on the internal organization of the four Hanseatic trading posts.

Term

The term office use only since the 16th century. Previously there was talk of home or yard. For instance, this means Kontor in Novgorod Peterhof.

He was very often used in the 19th and 20th centuries for offices and business rooms by merchants. The one with the office or office work employees were referred to as a clerk or clerks. Even in our modern times the term is out of office traditional farms. Frequent seats of these companies are the old Hanseatic towns. The office of the merchant was often together with its warehouses and its living spaces under one roof. Increasingly Only after the mid-19th century saw the buildings that were used solely to office use, especially office buildings. Originated in Hamburg, 1886-1938 hundreds of office buildings, substantially similar types, with a uniform function.

For example, in Indonesia the office is still referred to as " cantor ", taken during the Dutch colonial era, and also in the Dutch office will continue called " kantoor ".