Harvest crown
The harvest crown is part of the rural customs for the harvest festival in Germany and Austria.
history
After the crop had been cut, the harvesters brought the harvest crown to the landlord with the last harvest. The first evidence of this tradition can be found in the answers to Wilhelm Mannhardt's folklore questionnaire from 1865. Initially, it was just a larger sheaf of corn, later also a harvest wreath . A church blessing and a harvest song were part of the handover ceremony, which continued with dancing and eating.
During the time of National Socialism , the handover of a monumental harvest crown was part of the ritual of the Reichserntedankfeste on the Bückeberg near Hameln .
Today the harvest crown is usually produced by rural women's and rural youth associations .
layout
The harvest crown consists of a wreath with four, more rarely six, ears of cereal tied upwards towards the middle, which are decorated with flowers and brightly colored broad ribbons, often in the national colors. The crown size varies and depends on the purpose of the performance. In general, the size is chosen so that it can be transported on a wagon or truck during harvest parades.
The crown has a certain size wire or wooden frames as static support. The female person as the chosen harvest queen wears a harvest crown adapted to the head.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann (lit.)
- ↑ Bernd Sösemann: Roll call under the harvest crown. The Reichserntedankfest in the National Socialist dictatorship , in: Yearbook for Communication History 2 (2000), pp. 113–156
literature
- Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann : Harvest usage in the rural working world of the 19th century. Based on the Mannhardt survey in Germany in 1865. Marburg 1965 (phil. Diss.)
- Siegfried Lehmann: The reaper's masterpiece. The custom between "tufts of thanks" and "harvest crown". In: Overview 4, 1953, No. 7, pp. 599-602
- Helmut P. Fielhauer: Palm donkey and harvest crown. In: Olaf Bockhom, Helmut P. Fielhauer (ed.): Cultural heritage and appropriation. Festschrift for Richard Wolfram on his 80th birthday (= publications by the Institute for Folklore of the University of Vienna, Vol. 9). Vienna 1982, pp. 79-113; also in: H. Fielhauer: Folklore as a democratic cultural history. 1987
- Olaf Bockhom: "Before binding, the reapers bring the lord a harvest crown ...". The Mannhardt survey on manors in the territory of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. In: Olaf Bockhorn, Wolfgang Slapansky under red. Collaboration with Elisabeth Bockhorn (ed.): Farm servant and seasonal work in the Pannonian region. (= Publications of the Ethnographia Pannonica Austriaca, Vol. 2). Vienna 1990, pp. 53-64.
Web links
- Tying a harvest crown (private side)