Towel
A pall (also Baar cloth , Bo (h) ltuch , coffin ceiling , pall ) is the cloth, which in the laying-out and at the funeral / cortege on the Bier is spread.
The cloth was usually maintained by the parish and could be borrowed from it for a fee or it was provided by a professional organization (e.g. the guild ) of the deceased. It was usually made of black velvet or some other black fabric and often embroidered with a cross and other religious and / or professional symbols . For mourners it was a special honor to be among those who hold the pall (hence English. Pallbearer ) were allowed. For example, it was reported about Ludwig van Beethoven's funeral procession : "eight band masters held the pall."
A banner was often used as a cloth at the funerals of nobles ; at burials with military honors and at state funerals it is still a flag today .
In Germany , it is state practice at official federal funeral ceremonies that the coffin is completely covered with the federal service flag , often 220 cm by 330 cm, with the black horizontal stripe of the tricolor at the height of the deceased's head.
In Austria today there are still official towels that are used, for example, at state funerals. The cloth of the Republic of Austria, last used at the funeral of the deceased former mayor of Vienna Helmut Zilk , differs from a normal federal official flag in that it is adorned with an embroidered, vertically instead of horizontally attached federal eagle , which is also in the design differs from that of the normal service flag. The same applies to the pallet of the city of Vienna .
In East Timor , tais are used as handkerchiefs, the country's traditional woven cloths. At state funerals, the flag of East Timor is also placed over it.
literature
- Hans Kayser: Cooperative towels in Thuringia. In: Journal of the Association for Thuringian History and Archeology. 43, 1941, ZDB -ID 200434-3 , pp. 165-182.
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry Beethoven in the women's conversation lexicon
- ↑ Article Federal service flag as a coffin ceiling in the information portal Protocol Inland of the German Federal Minister of the Interior , accessed on December 4, 2012
