Allerheiligenstriezel
The allerheiligenstriezel (regional also Heiligenstriezel , Heiligenstritzel , Strietzel , Allerseelenzopf , soul Spitz , soul bread , soul awakening or Allerseelenbreze ) is a braided in plait crumpet . Like other stries and plaits, it consists of flour, eggs, baker's yeast , fat, raisins, a little milk and salt, as well as grain sugar, granulated sugar or poppy seeds, and is made with rum or lemon juice, depending on local customs.
regional customs
From Austria to Bavaria and Hungary , the godparents or godparents give their godchildren an All Saints' Triezel for the All Saints Day. For the sponsored and confirmed children who grew up in unpaid circumstances in the countryside, the gift used to mean “a balance to the usual days of starvation and saving”.
In Burgenland , the Heiligenstriezel once played a role as a gift of love: the boys bought it in shops on the eve of All Saints' Day and brought it to their girls the next day as an "admirer stripe".
history
The custom has its roots in ancient cults of mourning , when people cut off their braided hair to express their grief.
There are early modern mentions around 1688, when Ignaz Ritter, pastor of Saxen in Upper Austria , mentioned the Heiligenstritzel in his news book about customs and practices throughout the year .
For centuries it was also customary to give bread to the poor on All Saints' Day, and the needy received not only Striezel, but in some regions also loaves of bread, rolls or donuts. Peter Rosegger describes how the custom in Styria came about in the 19th century.
Christian Schölnast went into his 1971 novel Stronger than All Weapons on the production of All Saints' Triezel.
Trivia
In Linz in particular , the success of the baked goods was associated with the superstition that this meant luck and success for the year ahead. If the dough did not rise, one feared great misfortune or even one's own death.
In order to mock single women because of their celibacy, young men gave them striezeln made of straw.
In many places in the Weinviertel region , people rolled around the Striezel or played cards at the tables in the village tavern while playing “Striezel paschen” or “Striezel schnapps”.
literature
- Ursula Mauritz: Ask for an All Saints' Triezel! In: City of God. November 2004, page 4, online ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- Trude Ruhsam: Rhymes while collecting the holy scraps . In: Heimatgaue. Volume 3, Linz 1922, pp. 34–35, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
- Ernst Burgstaller: Traditional pastries and Christmas dishes: a folklore contribution to Austrian cultural geography. 1957, 136 pages, digitized .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richard Kastner: Manners and customs in the Saxen rectory . In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets. Volume 1, Issue 3, Linz 1947, p. 267, full article, p. 266–268, online (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum: “On All Saints Day, the children come to get holy stritzel that can be bought at the bakery. Each receives a stritzel worth 1 penny and nuts and apples. "
- ↑ a b Ernst Burgstaller 1957, p. 133.
- ↑ Recipe and Bavarian background information ( Memento from January 27, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Anton Herrmann: Ethnological communications from Hungary. Illustrated magazine for the ethnology of Hungary and the countries with which it is ethnographic. Budapest 1897, p. 21, online at archiv.org.
- ↑ Roland Girtler: Summer grain: from the decline of the rural culture. Böhlau, Vienna / Cologne / Weimar 1996, p. 95, digitized .
- ↑ a b c d Ursula Mauritz 2004, p. 4.
- ↑ Stephanie Hütter, Andreas Kaserbacher: Allerheiligen and Striezel - two ancient rites ?! Project study, radio broadcast, 2006/2007, Word document on eduhi.at.
- ^ Christian Schölnast: Stronger than all weapons. 1971, pp. 111-112, digitized .
- ^ Ernst Burgstaller: Austrian festive pastries. Verlag Bundesinnung der Bäcker, 1958, pp. 39–41, Google Book .
- ↑ Ernst Burgstaller 1957, p. 22.
- ^ Helmut Fielhauer: Folklore contributions. 1966, p. 21, digitized .