On the Schwäbsche Eisebahne
Auf de Schwäbsche Eisebahne is a folk song from Württemberg .
history
The first publication of the lyrics is not clearly documented. A Tübingen Kommersbuch from 1853 is often cited as the source , but this does not exist in this form. In a Tübingen Kommersbuch the song can only be found from 1894, in other song collections already from 1888. Even if there is no evidence for the writing around the year 1853, the caricature "Cheap means of transport" in the Fliegende Blätter indicates at least the existence of the Topic.
In 1851, a caricature of a man with a Swabian accent (presumably a Jewish cattle dealer) who tied a calf to the back of a train in order to save transport costs appeared in the Düsseldorf monthly magazine . The numerous text variants also indicate a longer oral tradition. The continuous opening of the first Württemberg railway line from Heilbronn via Stuttgart and Ulm to Friedrichshafen ( north , east and south ) took place in 1850. An occurrence beforehand can be assumed to be unlikely. The melody comes from a Basel soldier's song from around 1850.
song lyrics
There are numerous variations of the text. The German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau has around one hundred different printed versions and recordings from oral tradition with up to 27 stanzas. Probably the best-known version is about a farmer who ties his billy goat to the railway wagon - as he is used to from earlier trips with the ox-cart - so that the animal can run after the moving wagon, but at the next stop only finds the severed head of the animal and it is full Anger throws at the conductor ; the mockery of the song is directed against the ignorance of the backwoods peasant. This motif appeared almost simultaneously with the song in an edition of the Fliegende Blätter in 1853 , but there the farmer is assumed to be unreasonable stinginess as a motif.
The one in the chorus
"Trulla, trulla, trullalla
trulla, trulla, trulla la,
Schtuegert, Ulm and Biberach
Mekkebeure, Durlesbach."
The stations in Stuttgart , Ulm , Biberach , Meckenbeuren and Durlesbach along the East and South Railway are not in the geographically correct order in favor of Reims, since Durlesbach is before Meckenbeuren; however, they are arranged in the song according to their size and importance. The Durlesbach station was once the location off the south runway Bad Waldsee opened and left open the 1984th
melody
Words and Wise: Folk song from Swabia around 1853
Monuments
Durlesbach
At the former train station in Durlesbach , the events described in the folk song are illustrated with bronze figures on a siding using a real steam locomotive and two railroad cars: A farmer ties a billy goat to the train and is observed by the conductor (conductor) and the farmer's wife. The figures were created by the sculptor René Auer from Bad Waldsee and cast by the Strassacker company in Süßen .
Monument at Durlesbach train station
"'S Bäurle"
"Billy goat"
(before departure)
"Conductor"
"'S Weible"
Meckenbeuren
The Meckenbeurer memorial on the corner of Bahnhofstrasse and Ravensburger Strasse shows the Bäuerle, grabbing his billy goat by the horns, on a concrete base with the inscription “ON DE SCHWÄB'SCHE EISEBAHNE”. The pair, created by Friedrichshafen sculptor Ingo Koblischek and cast in bronze , was unveiled during the Meckenbeurer station festival in 1986.
reception
The Bodensee-Oberschwaben-Bahn , which operates the Aulendorf - Friedrichshafen connection , has a goat's head as its logo. Their trains are also called "billy goat railway".
The song can be heard briefly in the film Der Schuh des Manitu - the Indians sing it as they ride the trolley.
The family rollercoaster Volldampf , which is themed as a railway and based on the folk song, will open in 2020 in the Tripsdrill leisure park .
literature
- Otto Holzapfel : On the Schwäb'sche Eisebahne. Notes on an internationally popular song . In: Life at the lake. Home year book of the Lake Constance district . tape 5 , 1978, ISBN 3-88812-505-7 , pp. 235-240 .
- Katja Moser-Zours and Andrea Liebers: On the Schwäb'schen Eisenbahn . DRW-Verlag Weinbrenner, Leinfelden-Echterdingen 2002, ISBN 3-87181-477-6 .
- Lutz Röhrich: ... and that is Baden's happiness. Homeland songs and regional anthems in the German southwest. In search of identity . In: Yearbook for Folk Song Research . tape 35 , 2002, ISBN 3-8309-1213-7 , pp. 14-25 .
- Eckart Schörle: On the Schwäbsche Eisebahne. A Swabian hymn . Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2012, ISBN 978-3-86680-988-8 .
- Martin Staehelin : A Basel soldier's song from the 19th century and the origin of a forgotten schnitzel bank tradition . In: Swiss Archives for Folklore . tape 67 , 1971, p. 174-178 .
- Heinz-Eugen Schramm : Swabians how it laughs . Weidlich, Frankfurt am Main 1970, ISBN 3-8035-8549-X .
Web links
- On the Schwäbsche Eisebahne in the song project of Carus-Verlag and SWR2
- Auf da schwäbʼscha Eisabåhna Song of the Month June 2012 by the Klingende Brücke
- Xaver Frühbeis: billy goat and crocodile. "On the Schwäb'sche Eisebahne". BR-Klassik, extra midday music, January 2, 2013
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hugo Stehn (Ed.): What sings and sounds. Songs of youth . 10th edition. Book publisher of the Bund Deutscher Jugendvereine, Sollstedt near Nordhausen 1926.
- ^ Sebastian: 160 years of the secret Swabian anthem. In: Favoriteblog.net. January 26, 2013, accessed January 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Carl Reinhardt : Savings. (Illustration). In: Düsseldorfer monthly issue 4 . Lorenz Clasen , 1851, p. 160 , accessed January 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Moser-Zours / Liebers, p. 29
- ↑ Thomas Brune, Heike Gall: On rails through bourgeois soul landscapes. Caricatures in the Flying Leaves . In: Train of Time - Time of Trains. German Railways 1835–1985 . Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88680-146-2 , p. 461 .
- ↑ New for 2020 roller coaster amusement park | Tripsdrill. Retrieved May 22, 2020 .