Tüötten statue in Mettingen

In Mettingen, the Tüötten statue commemorates the "Tödden" (also "Tüötten" or "Tiötten"), seasonal migrant workers from Westphalia who went to the Netherlands in the summer to sell linen fabrics. The system of the so-called "Tödden trade" arose in the 17th and 18th century as a part of the "North Sea system," a commodity trading system that extended to the Baltic States.

Tüötte statue from the group of figures created by Anne Daubenspeck-Focke in 1988: miner, Tüötte and farmer's wife with child at the Telsemeyer house in Mettingen, Steinfurt district, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, sculpture: Anne Daubenspeck-Focke, color photograph, 2006, photographer: J.-H- Janßen; source: Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mettingen_Tueoettenfigur.jpg, Creative Commons Namensnennung - Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 2.5 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.5).