As became clear Swabia

Cleanliness in Germany, specifically in Swabia, was not "innate" and even very forced.
For a long time the Germans dump it garbage, ashes, sdohshih pets, bones and dishwater from the kitchen stupidly over the fence, or where necessary. As a result of poor sanitation had, disease and filthy in the extreme villages and towns. In the 15th century, Count of Württemberg took this stench, and he began to issue decrees, saying that manure and shit that produces cattle and people, it is necessary to export outside the village or at least "the river", and then only at night. On the orders of course scored as checking their performance was unreal, and the police to each barn to put a little expensive, and the bribes and treats for the servants of the law to abolish it was difficult. Then the graph has issued a new decree, which resulted in the Swabian town abruptly became clean. The essence of the decree was as follows: if you notice that your neighbor a couple of weeks does not remove garbage, and told him, it will be punished not only he, but also you. And if you are told, then you have a right to a portion of his land. As a result, every Saturday all pointedly and thoroughly cleaned the front of his court, it is reasonable to fear stukachestva and neighborhood wiles.
On the one hand it is possible to consider such methods as government coercion to squealing and violence against individual freedom.
On the other hand, the Swabians very quickly put things in their villages and towns perfect order, and the Swabian "Kervohe" has become part of the cultural heritage.

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