The Market

The regulations regarding trade and crafts were strict and only in the cities were goods allowed to be sold and bought. This meant that the city's market days were important and attracted a lot of people. Everyone who brought goods to the city paid customs duties. Some Brätte residents broke the law and traded in the countryside and smuggled goods across the border to Norway.

Some markets were only for the residents themselves, while others, so-called free markets, were open to everyone. The most important one in Brätte was the Morsmässo market, which was held around September 8. Norwegians, Danes and Germans came here. At the market, the locals could sell their own products, such as food and crafts, and buy what they could not produce themselves and had to import: salt, wine, finer fabrics and glass.