Tear-off calendar
The tear-off calendar is a form of calendar and can be divided into the forms of daily tear-off calendar and weekly tear-off calendar .
In the daily tear-off calendar , sheets of paper are in the form of a paper block , one for each day of the year, arranged one behind the other and glued or stapled at one end so that they can be torn off . The current date ( calendar day , weekday and month ) is shown on the front sheet . , There is also often information on the day, name day , name of a possible celebration or memorial day , on - and set times of the moon and sun and the calendar week . Sundays and public holidays are printed in red, Saturdays often in pale red or orange, and the remaining days in black. The reverse sides of the single sheets are often also printed. Here are z. B. tide times , household tips , recipes , anecdotes , quotes , jokes , puzzles , pictures or the like. Special forms are e.g. B. Language calendars or calendars of different beliefs or religions.
In the weekly tear-off calendar , one sheet of paper is arranged one behind the other for each week of the year .
Probably inspired by English date blocks , which have offered literary, religious and edifying short texts on the calendar sheets since the 1870s, German tear-off calendars have been traceable since 1882 at the latest. In 1889, for example, a calendar was published “for the dear Christian people with a German tongue with biblical reflections, short stories and poems”.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article tear-off calendar in: Christa Pieske: ABC of luxury paper, manufacture, distribution and use 1860-1930. Museum for German Folklore, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-88609-123-6 , p. 151.
