[Avodah] Why do Yekkes wait 3 hours?

[Dov Kay]

<<and no written codification of 3 (until very late? anywhere?)>>
 
I think that Rav B Forst's Artscroll Kashrus book cites Rabbeinu Yerucham as the earliest source for 3 hours.
 
In my parents-in-law's family (the Posens), the ladies wait 3 hours in accordance with the family custom, but the men are stringent and wait 6 hours.  My wife is quite grateful for the p'sak we received permitting her to keep up with the 3 hour custom, even though I, as a Litvak, wait 6 hours.
 
Interestingly, Rav Schach is quoted in the first volume of Shorshei Minhag Ashkenaz as saying that a Yekke should not be "machmir" and wait 6 hours, while I have seen Rav Elyashiv quoted somewhere as disagreeing.  I suppose the question is whether minhag trumps strict halacha.  For instance, no gebrokts on Pesach was, presumably, originally adopted as a chumra, but is now exclusively a function of minhag (with the exception of one Rabbi I know of in Melbourne who has not a drop of chassidic blood in him but took on "no gebrokts" as a chumra).
 
Kol tuvDov Kay
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