As beach robbers bezeichneta one those who saved the goods (stranded goods), rinsed to the beaches, with storms and in order to use or for money resell these. After laws at that time was the abandoned ship and/or abandoned freight the property of the Finders.

Contrary to Piraten, which quite pursued the same goals of arriving i.e. at the charge of strange ships they did not seize the ships on from lake, somdern operated always from country.

Were far common to a large extent passive beach robbers, who ran off and on goods lurked only the rinsing seam, before the this became haveful. More brutally those beach robbers proceeded, who lured ships in Untiefen and on the beach with wrong fires consciously, there the shipwrecked ones - if these stranding survived - killed, in order to arrive at the charge of the ships.

Even if the stranded goods were considered as abandoned, it was to be delivered the responsible Strandvogt. The had to use this then for the national gentlemen.

Also the fact that the church mostly bore these activities, appears remarkable against payment or material assets with the

Most beach robbers were propelled by the poverty under the simple population, wide-spread at the coast. Stranded goods offered a welcome addition of the meager income. Large wealth usually could not be accumulated however.

The found only by the building of lighthouses at the coasts, an end to the publication of current sea charts and further navigation aids.

See also

• Pirat
• Strandvogt

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