Olbernhauer rider

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The Olbernhauer rider.

The Olbernhauer Reiterlein is a landmark of the city of Olbernhau in the Ore Mountains . The wooden rider shows a hussar on a rocking horse . During the Advent season , the Olbernhauer Reiterlein, together with the gingerbread woman and the nutcracker, represent the city and the Ore Mountains as a Christmas and wooden toy region .

The official gazette of the city of Olbernhau also bears the name "Olbernhauer Reiterlein".

Emergence

prehistory

Advent candle arch with incense smoker , nutcracker and Olbernhauer rider.

Handy equestrian figures, i.e. the fixed combination of rider and horse, are already known from archaeological finds. The Beckersloher and Speikern riders served as grave goods to identify the deceased as members of a wealthy equestrian caste.

In Georg Hieronimus Bestelmeiers Nuremberg Toy catalogs in 1800 included a variety of equestrian figures, wooden horses and rocking animals to offer. In the model books of the Sonneberg region around 1830, the step from rocking horse to miniaturized table toy is evident. The Arschpfeifenrössl , a rough carving from the Berchtesgadener Land with a pipe as a ponytail, came into circulation in the Erzgebirge as a cradle rider: the "Sonneberg rider with a pipe" rode a horse in the form of a turned, halved and sliced ​​roller, which creates the rocking effect ( Weighing) made possible.

For example, August Hermann Ulbricht around 1880 for Seiffen and the wood turner Bräunig in particular for the Olbernhauer area around 1900 are named as the oldest manufacturer of the little riders. After 1920, the manufacturer Erwin Beier can be named for Olbernhau as a turner of horsemen. It is said to have been painted in Max Korb's workshop.

badge

Badge of the Winter Relief Organization 1935

The creation of the Olbernhauer Reiterlein goes back to 1935. As a result of the global economic crisis , toy production in the Ore Mountains almost completely came to a standstill. The Winterhilfswerk (WHW), which commissioned the toy manufacturers in the Ore Mountains with the production of so-called winter aid badges, brought new impulses . The small badges were sold for 20 pfennigs each at events and fundraising campaigns throughout the German Reich . The proceeds were donated to people in need. To increase the willingness to donate, a new motif was created every month. The wooden and brightly painted badges showed classic motifs such as angels, Christmas trees and Santa Clauses, but also characters from the world of legends and fairy tales.

For 1935, the Olbernhau toy manufacturer Max Korb was commissioned to design a badge for the winter relief organization. The motif chosen was a rocking horse with a nutcracker in a hussar uniform as a rider. As early as 1782 and later, Olbernhau merchants offered small weighing riders at the Leipzig trade fair . The motif, also referred to in literature as the Seiffen Rider , was a resounding success. For the Winter Relief Organization Christmas campaign in December 1935, 13.6 million pieces were produced. The Olbernhauer Reiterlein became known nationwide and became a "symbol for the winter aid organization".

Wooden figure

Olbernhauer rider as a wooden figure

In the same year the carpenter Ernst Knott, the carpenter Emil Butze and the model carpenter Max Böhme created the three life-size symbolic figures gingerbread woman, nutcracker and rider for a Christmas Ore Mountains show in the manor Olbernhau. On the first Advent in 1951, the three figures were placed under the Christmas tree on the market square for the first time. Since then, the trio has been at the Olbernhauer Markt every year in Advent and Christmas. Because of its age and the associated signs of wear and tear, the little rider was faithfully reproduced by a Gahlenz company in 1999 .

During the GDR times, in 1968, the master craftsman Helmut Ulbricht developed a rider measuring 5 × 6 centimeters. For the first time since 1935, the little rider was produced in series not as a badge, but as a toy figure. In this form, the little rider also serves as a Christmas decoration. The Olbernhauer Little Rider is still made in the Olbernhauer wood art workshops.

The brand name and word mark “Olbernhauer Reiterlein” were protected in 2005 in the brand association between the city of Olbernhau and the Association of Erzgebirge Artisans and Toy Makers . The Association of Erzgebirge Craftsmen and Toy Manufacturers eV also has the Olbernhauer rider in its logo.

literature

  • Konrad Auerbach: man on horse. Toy riders all over the world. In: Museum bulletin of the Erzgebirge Toy Museum Seiffen ( issue 2008-1 ), Seiffen 2008.
  • Frank Löser: Legends and stories from the upper Flöhatal in the Ore Mountains. Pfaffroda - Neuhausen - Olbernhau - Seiffen. Publishing house Rockstuhl 2015.

Web links

Commons : Olbernhauer Reiterlein  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Olbernhauer Reiterlein , Official Gazette of the city of Olbernhau.
  2. ↑ Dr. Konrad Auerbach: man on horse. Toy riders all over the world. In: Museum bulletin of the Erzgebirge Toy Museum Seiffen ( issue 2008-1 ).
  3. ↑ Dr. Konrad Auerbach: man on horse. Toy riders all over the world. In: Museum bulletin of the Erzgebirge Toy Museum Seiffen ( issue 2008-1 ).
  4. ↑ Winter Relief Organization / War Winter Aid Organization - Badge: Christmas tree decorations
  5. ↑ Manuel Schramm: Consumption and regional identity in Saxony 1880-2000: the regionalization of consumer goods in the field of tension between nationalization and globalization. (= Quarterly for social and economic history: supplements ISSN  0341-0846 164) Stuttgart: Steiner 2002 ISBN 9783515081696 , p. 131
  6. ↑ The Olbernhauer Reiterlein on Olbernhau.org.
  7. ↑ Nina Gockerell: Christmas time: festivities between Advent and New Year in southern Germany and Austria 1840-1940: Ursula Kloiber collection. Munich: Prestel 2000 ISBN 9783791324807 , p. 182
  8. ↑ Little rider should not only advertise Olbernhau in winter , Free Press of November 27, 2018.
  9. ↑ The Olbernhauer Reiterlein on Olbernhau.org.
  10. ↑ Olbernhauer Reiterlein, Pfefferkuchenfrau and Nutcracker on Olbernhau.de.
  11. ↑ Dr. Konrad Auerbach: man on horse. Toy riders all over the world. In: Museum bulletin of the Erzgebirge Toy Museum Seiffen ( issue 2008-1 ).
  12. ↑ Official website of the Association of Erzgebirge Craftsmen and Toy Manufacturers