Civil guard "blue-gold" from 1904

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Civil Guard "blue-gold" from 1904 eV Cologne
(Civil Guard "blue-gold")
Logo Bürgergarde blue-gold.jpg
purpose Maintenance of traditions and customs of the Cologne Carnival
Chair: Markus Wallpott (President)
Udo Koschollek (Vice President)
Günter Flüch (Treasurer)
Establishment date: 1904
Seat : Cologne-Ehrenfeld
Website: www.buergergarde.de
Rose Monday procession 2013
Giant barrel on wheels: the dancing couple's carriage

The Carnival Society Bürgergarde "blau-gold" from 1904 eV Cologne is one of the nine traditional corps in the Cologne Carnival as well as a full member of the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee and a member of the Bund Deutscher Karneval .

history

The civil guard "blue-gold" is an honor field carnival society. Ehrenfeld received the 1867 municipal law and was 1888 by Cologne incorporated. The city colors were blue and gold. The Bürgergarde is an amalgamation of the Große Cöln-Ehrenfelder CG from 1904, the Allgemeine Ehrenfelder KG from 1911 and the Ehrenfelder KG “Funkengarde blau-gold” from 1951. At the request of the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee , the three Ehrenfeld carnival societies should join forces. In 1955 the "Große Allgemeine Ehrenfelder KG blue-gold" was created . In 1971 the long-time president of the society, Hans Wallpott, had the idea of ​​founding a corps in traditional Frederickian uniforms, just like the other corps have. The colors should be "blue-gold". In 1981 the company changed its name again to Bürgergarde "blue-gold" .

The Bürgergarde is a founding member of the Ehrenfeld Carnival Festival Committee, founded in 1953, and the sponsoring company of the Ehrenfeld Tuesday procession, which takes place on Violet Tuesday and which started in 1954 as "Ihrfelder Kinderzog" and is one of the largest district trains in Cologne. In addition, the Ehrenfeld Carnival Festival Committee , to which the Citizens Guard is a leading member, established the Cologne children's triumvirate in 1965 . In the first few years, the triumvirate of children was selected and looked after by the citizen guard . A few years ago, the Cologne Carnival Festival Committee took over the patronage of the children's triumvirate.

On February 10, 2001, the Citizens Guard was appointed a traditional corps by the then Festival Committee President Hans-Horst Engels .

In the 2010/2011 session , the civil guard "blue-gold" with Frank Steffens as Prince Frank I , Günter Flüch as the farmer Günter and Hans René Sion as the virgin Reni presented a triumvirate at the Cologne Carnival for the first time .

The corps of the society is divided into dance, escort and officer corps, the regimental band and the minstrel band. The “Tanzmüüs”, a dance group for children and young people from 4 to 18 years of age, has existed since 2000, and since 2011 there has been its own equestrian corps in the Citizens Guard .

Like the other traditional corps, the civil guard is a purely male society in which women cannot become members. The musicians and dancers have been accepted into the guard as “supporting members” and have their own float in the Cologne Rose Monday procession .

The "blue-gold tower"

Blue-gold tower

The home of the Bürgergarde is a historic water tower from 1890, the former United German Metal Goods Factory (VDM) in today's Leo-Amann-Park in Cologne-Ehrenfeld . Rather by chance, in 1982, Bürgergarde President Hans Wallpott († 2017) discovered the tower in the middle of the factory ruins while the factory was being demolished. Wallpott was able to convince the city curator Hiltrud Kier of the preservation of the tower and in 1983 the non-profit "Association of Friends and Patrons of the Blue-Gold Tower" was founded. The citizen guard took care of the restoration of the industrial monument and gave it the name "Blue-Gold-Tower". The civil guard is the owner of the tower by leasehold contract until 2085. In the tower there is also the Justitia from 1880 from the town hall of the former town of Ehrenfeld. A cast of the statue is in the Cologne District Court .

The Senate

The Senate of the Citizens Guard was founded in 1953. The Senate is the financial backbone of the association and contributes significantly to the promotion and fulfillment of the statutory purposes and the social life of the association. The aim is to provide financial and ideal support to the active corps. The Senate has around 70 active members and 18 honorary senators. The Senate President is Jürgen Overhage (as of 2016) . The Senate of the Citizens Guard is represented with its own float during the Rose Monday procession.

literature

  • Frank Tewes and Jürgen Stelter: 100 years of the “blue-gold” civil guard . 1st edition. DAT WOR ET, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-933839-14-5 , pp. 224 .
  • Günther Ortmann: Dreimol vun Hätze: Kölle Alaaf . 1st edition. JP Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1780-1 , p. 653 .

Web links

Commons : Bürgergarde Blau-Gold  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. koelner-karneval.org - Ordinary Societies , accessed on February 26, 2014.
  2. karneval.de - Bürgergarde "blau-gold" von 1904 eV, accessed on February 26, 2014
  3. Günther Ortmann: Dreimol vun Hätze: Kölle Alaaf . 1st edition. JP Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1780-1 , p. 254 .
  4. kölner-wochenspiegel.de - on horseback  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 26, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / xn--klner-wochenspiegel-q6b.de  
  5. report-k.de (from May 16, 2017): Bürgergarde "blau-gold": Honorary President Hans Wallpott died , accessed on May 28, 2017
  6. stadt district-ehrenfeld.info - water tower in Leo-Amann-Park ( memento of the original from February 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed February 26, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stadt Bezirk-ehrenfeld.info
  7. Günther Ortmann: Dreimol vun Hätze: Kölle Alaaf . 1st edition. JP Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1780-1 , p. 265 .
  8. Akademie för uns kölsche Sproch - Tower of the Civil Guard Blue-Gold, accessed via the Internet archive
  9. stadt-koeln.de - From Helios to the Blue-Gold Tower , accessed on September 23, 2017.
  10. buergergarde.de - Senate ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 24, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.buergergarde.de
  11. Günther Ortmann: Dreimol vun Hätze: Kölle Alaaf . 1st edition. JP Bachem, Cologne 2004, ISBN 3-7616-1780-1 , p. 258 .
  12. karnevalzeitung.de - Bürgergarde “blau-gold”: Donors and lively Senate  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved February 26, 2014@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.karnevalzeitung.de