Heddesdorf Whitsun fighters
The Whitsun rivalry in Heddesdorf (district of Neuwied ) goes back to the Rommersdorf monastery and the sheep breeding there used to be and can be documented since 1564 , but is probably older.
In order to get the sheep to pasture, to water or to wash on the Rhine or the Wied , the shepherds had to cross the fields of the farmers from Heddesdorf and Niederbieber . They were granted this right as often as they saw fit. In return, the farmhands from Heddesdorf and Niederbiber received 5 guilders and 4 liters of wine when they rode to the Rommersdorf monastery. In addition to the Rommersdorf monastery, due to this agreement, the Hofmann zu Langendorf had to entertain the Heddesdorf boys when they came to the Langendorf farm on horseback. The agreement with the Langendorf monastery courtyard expired when the courtyard disappeared as Neuwied grew. In contrast, a similar old agreement with the Reuler Hof, which was also entered into, under the spell of Engers, lives on to this day, with the Whitsun fighters having lunch after their visit to Rommersdorf zu Engers. This ancient right also has to do with the sheep righteous. The medieval farm Reul or Reil bei Engers shared sheep grazing rights with Heddesdorf on the Teil tenth on both sides of the Heddesdorfer-Engers boundary.
Obligations
The obligations of the Pentecostal custom are officially sealed by Engers . The customs of the Heddesdorf Pentecostal fighters under Mayor Seuser were laid down in writing on May 26, 1859 in the so-called "statutes" and confirmed by the then Heddesdorf Mayor Raiffeisen (the world-famous founder of the Raiffeisen cooperatives and banks). After the Reuler Hof no longer existed, Engers had to serve the Whitsun horsemen in the field at Reuler Pütz. The Engers shepherd master had to be there with a white coat and black dog. Later the Engers parish took over the catering and provided lunch. The servants' obligation was to keep the annual collection on Whitsunday Tuesday, because otherwise the agreed catering would be dropped forever if the collection date was missed only once. But only the tradition-conscious Heddesdorfers have managed to keep this over the centuries despite the chaos of war and thus maintain the custom to this day.
War years
Several times, however, the customs were in serious danger such as B. 1797 , when the French had occupied the Heddesdorfer and Engerser districts. Since they suspected that the ride was a military action, they banned it without further ado. During this time, a young man named Britz took courage and made it through secret routes through the French posts to Rommersdorf. There he put a few flowers on his hat, sat on a beanstalk and rode into the cloister courtyard with the cry " Hääh Pingsderäider " and thus saved the custom.
To commemorate this incident, the " Hobby Horse Riding Club " was founded in the Heddesdorf district of Sonnenland in 1926 , and since then it has organized a hobby horse race every year based on this act.
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- ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: High German translation of the Rommersdorf monastery document from 1564 )