A Pfisterer is a baker who owns a mill. So bakers and millers in one. The name comes from southern Germany and from Alsace Pfister (OHG phistur, pfistur; from Latin Pistor) was an old, especially in the southern German-speaking occurring name for a baker. Today's family name was that title made up. Characteristic and distinctive from the bakery trade in the Middle Ages, the guild over-arching element The Pfisterei (OHG phistrîna, phistrîn, phistira, MHG pfistrîne, pfisterîe, pfistrî, pfister = bakery, especially a Communität, a monastery , Court, etc) was often the connection of a mill with a bakery, what is today the most common restaurant name? Pfistermühle? can recognize. The Pfister was also a grain dealer and two guilds and guild thus assigned. From the Dukes of Wittelsbach Pfisterei in Munich today went out the chain stores Hofpfisterei.
(Sent from: Robert Pfister)
