Hand and hitch-up services

In Austria, Germany and Switzerland, hand and hitch-up services (i.e., services of manual work and with hitched-up cart or more modern vehicles, German: Hand- und Spanndienste or Hand- und Zugdienste) or more contemporary (mandatory) municipal services (German: "Gemeindedienste") or respectively corvées communales in Switzerland, are allowed in some Austrian and German states. In the 1950s in rural municipalities, citizens were drafted for mandatory community service frequently, but nowadays only small municipalities draft their citizens, like the German town of Winsen an der Aller once a year or Bezau in Austria.

Source: Wikipedia — Hand and hitch-up services (CC BY-SA 4.0)