Spinning machine

A rotor spinning machine, comprising:

• a plurality of adjacently arranged spinning stations, wherein carrier devices for a fiber bundle are assigned to the spinning stations;
• each of the spinning stations operating with a fiber bundle feed device and a fiber bundle piecing device;
• the fiber bundle piecing device comprising a sliver pickup configured to grasp and pick up a leading end of the fiber bundle supplied from the carrier device and a supply device configured to move the leading end of the fiber bundle to the feed device;
• wherein the piecing device with the sliver pickup and the supply device is at a fixed stationary position relative to the spinning stations and is assigned to a single spinning station or a group of spinning stations;
• a sliver holder configured at each of the spinning stations, wherein the sliver pickup is configured with the supply device to receive the leading end of the fiber bundle supplied by the carrier device from the sliver holder;
• and
• the supply device further configured to extend to a yarn package at the spinning station to retrieve a thread end from the yarn package, thereby also functioning as a thread-handling device at the spinning station.