{"id":737,"date":"2006-01-11T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-11T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.co.uk\/SU\/?p=737"},"modified":"2021-11-05T22:52:13","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T14:52:13","slug":"737","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/737\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans give chimney sweeps the brush-off"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3568552113_da6004e660_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"682\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3568552113_da6004e660_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2699\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3568552113_da6004e660_b.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/3568552113_da6004e660_b-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>From the Daily Telegraph&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><b>Germans give chimney sweeps the brush-off<\/b><br \/>By Kate Connolly in Berlin<br \/>(Filed: 26\/12\/2005)<\/p>\n<p>In his top hat, white tie and brass-buttoned uniform, and dangling a brush on a chain over his shoulder, Erhard Feller might have walked off the set of a film about Victorian England.<\/p>\n<p>But the 51-year-old chimney sweep is a vibrant part of working life in modern Berlin and the uniform is standard for him and his 8,000 colleagues across Germany.<\/p>\n<p>Even though most German chimneys are too thin for Santa Claus to squeeze into, Christmas is still the busiest time of year for Mr Feller, who travels on a motorbike between the 310 properties he is responsible for.<\/p>\n<p>The few remaining households with fireplaces and wood ovens are keen to ensure they are in working order during the winter break.<\/p>\n<p>The chimney sweep has a reputation as a bringer of luck. But an increasing number of Germans are angry that the sweeps have a monopoly and they are forced to pay for their services, whether they have a chimney or not.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 From the Daily Telegraph&#8230; Germans give chimney sweeps the brush-offBy Kate Connolly in Berlin(Filed: 26\/12\/2005) In his top hat, white tie and brass-buttoned uniform, and dangling a brush on a chain over his shoulder, Erhard Feller might have walked &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/737\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nolligan.ie\/SU\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}