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Margareth Lanzinger

Conclusion
This contribution has firstly searched for clues on the largely forgotten link
between innkeepers and transport activities. It has also looked at the mar-
ital and family context. The cases presented showed that the hospitality
industry offered opportunities for social advancement: from craftsman
to innkeeper, and then from innkeeper to merchant. Running the larg-
er, legally regulated inns required literacy and numeracy, which, together
with organisational skills, provided the basis for public offices and func-
tions that innkeepers often held at the local level. Women’s wealth also
played an important role in the socio-economic position of innkeepers’
families. Wealth is understood here in a double sense: on the one hand
in the sense of the material wealth that they brought into the household
as marital property and/or in the form of inheritance, and on the other
hand in the sense of the relevant skills of innkeepers’ daughters, widows
and wives, which were based on appropriate socialisation (Zweynert 2024,
Chapter 2). Related theses to be pursued further are that the marriage cir-
cles of innkeepers tended to be geographically wider than those of repre-
sentatives of other local trades and crafts or of agriculture, that there are
clear overlaps between the course of transit routes and the places of origin
of wives and men buying into the hospitality industry, and that a prefer-
ence for not only social but also professional endogamy can be identified
in the marriage connections of innkeepers.

Archival Sources
diöab, zrk: Diözesanarchiv Brixen, Zollregister Klausen.
gai: Gemeindearchiv Innichen.
sla, vbk: Südtiroler Landesarchiv Bozen, Verfachbuch Kastelruth.
stai, fb: Stiftsarchiv Innichen, Familienbuch.
sti: Sterbebuch Innichen.
tbi: Trauungsbuch Innichen.
tla, vbi: Tiroler Landesarchiv Innsbruck, Verfachbuch Innichen.

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