Bathers

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As Badenser (on the second syllable stressed) are now only sporadically and, the residents of despite the knowledge to encounter some of the considerable opposition Baden referred. While this name, derived from the Latin document language badensis (from Latin badeniensis ), did not cause offense in the past and has been used as one of several common spellings since the early 19th century - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, for example, used it around 1811 without objection in the sixteenth book of his work Poetry and truth - this has been the case since the dissolution of the Grand Duchy of Badenincreasingly perceived by the locals as disparaging and largely derogatory. The residents of Baden today often value being called Badener (or Badner for short ), even if the Duden allows both forms to be equivalent.

A Heilbronn member of the Baden-Wuerttemberg State Parliament had to learn in 1954 that the use of "Badenser" in recent history was perceived by those named in this way as inappropriate and often pejorative: In response to his statement, the North Baden CDU member Franz Gurk threatened to in future he will refer to him as “Heilbronnser”, with “-bronnser” phonetically very close to the southern German word Brunzer / Bronzer = “Pinkler”, “Pisser”.

The dispute over the admissibility of the term is seldom of a serious nature. Even by “Ur-Badeners” it is usually led with a wink in connection with local patriotic disputes with Swabians , Palatine or Bavaria .

See also

literature

  • Thomas Liebscher: From Goethe to the Swabians. How the once neutral term "Badenser" became an unword in Baden. In: Der Sonntag , Karlsruhe, April 8, 2012, p. 3.
  • Gerhard Müller: people from Baden and Baden. Notes on an old dispute . In: Badische Heimat , Vol. 93, issue 4/2013, pp. 803–809 ( PDF archived ( memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )).

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Individual evidence

  1. See Th. Liebscher, Von Goethe zu den Schwaben. Without any negative connotation, the term can also be found in Friedrich Engels , Karl May (in his novel Die Liebe des Ulanen ) and Theodor Fontane (in Meine Kinderjahre ); see. ibid.