Bartholomew Day

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Statue of the Apostle Bartholomew in Copenhagen
For the parish fair of the Bartholomäuskirche in Markgröningen there used to be a large Barthelmarkt - and to this day the "Historical Shepherd's Run "
Markgröninger Schäferlauf around 1911
Marquee on the Barthelmarkt in Oberstimm

The Bartholomew is a memorial in the Protestant church year , according to Protestant worship book and a celebration in the Anglican and the Catholic liturgical year. It has been celebrated annually on August 24th since the 9th century and commemorates the washing up of the coffin with the bones of the apostle Bartholomew on the island of Lipari near Sicily , which has been passed down by legends , where his remains were buried. According to Gregory of Tours , his body was brought from Mesopotamia to Lipari in 580. A church was built over his presumed grave, which was destroyed by the Saracens in 831 .

Lottery day

"Barthel" (Germanized form of Bartholomäus) is considered by farmers and shepherds as the traditional end of summer. It marks the end of the grain harvest and the beginning of the sowing for the next year. On this day the preparations for Christmas began .
Roots of medicinal plants unearthed around the time of Bartholomew's Day were considered to be particularly effective.
Fishermen associated the day with the end of the spawning season and the start of the new fishing season. In addition, lease payments were often due on Bartholomew's Day in the past.
In Württemberg, all shepherds met on the day of their patron saint for an annual guild meeting in Grüningen , attended the church service in the Bartholomäuskirche , held court and fulfilled their obligations, in order to then go to the fair and celebrate the shepherd 's run.

For farmers, winemakers and shepherds, the day is an important lottery day and a climatic turning point. Numerous farmer rules , which relate to Bartholomew's Day, predict the course of autumn and winter:

- If storks stay after Bartholomä, there will come a winter that doesn't hurt.
- Thunderstorms around Bartholomä bring hail and snow.
- The rain on Bartolomä hurts the vines bitterly.
- St. Bartholomew has the weather ready, for autumn through to sowing.
- As the weather turns out on Bartheltag, it should be the whole of September.

Liturgical celebration

Evangelical

Ev. Bartholomäuskirche in Rödinghausen
  • Liturgical color: red
  • Verse of the day: Isa 52,7  LUT
  • Alleluia verse: Ps 33,1  LUT
  • Psalm: Ps 43 : 1-5  LUT
  • Song of the day: EG 264 (The Church is founded) or Sings Jubilate 29 (The Saints, us way ahead)
  • Sermon texts:
    • Pericopes I and IV (2019, 2022, 2025 ...): Mk 3,13-19  LUT (at the same time gospel of the day)
    • Pericope series II and V (2020, 2023, 2026 ...): 2 Cor 4,7-10  LUT (also epistle of the day)
    • Rows of pericopes III and VI (2021, 2024, 2027 ...): Isa 61,8–11  LUT (also Old Testament reading of the day)
    • Further text: Lk 22,24-30  LUT

regional customs

St. Bartholomä (Königssee)

Bartholomew's Day is still celebrated today with numerous fairs, folk festivals, church fairs, parades and pilgrimages.

Bartholomew Night

The night of August 23rd to 24th, 1572, Bartholomew's Night , went down in history because of the pogrom against the Protestant Huguenots minority in France. The Evangelical Church in Germany remembers the day of remembrance for Gaspard II. De Coligny on August 23 in the Protestant calendar name and to the other victims of the St. Bartholomew's Day.

literature

  • Wolfgang Milde, Cosima Hofacker, Manfred Frank: Barefoot over the stubble field. Schäferlauf Markgröningen: amusing, original, right in the middle. Ed .: Stadt Markgröningen, 112 p., Markgröningen 2008
  • Petra Schad, Gerhard Liebler: Markgröningen and his Schäferlauf. Everything about the Schäferlauf in 3 parts: Origin and development of the Schäferfest - post-war hardship, hunger for life and the return of the Schäferlauf 1947 - Schäferlauf alphabet. Volume 9 of the series "Durch die Stadtbrille", published by the Working Group on Historical Research and Monument Preservation in Markgröningen. 121 p., Markgröningen 2007
  • Jakob Torsy: The Big Name Day Calendar . 3720 names and 1560 biographies of our saints. 13th edition, Freiburg im Breisgau 1976; Reprint 1989, p. 242.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Braunfels (ed.): Lexicon of Christian Iconography , Volume 5. Herder, Freiburg 1968, column 322.
  2. ↑ Brigitte Hoppe : Hieronymus Bock's book of herbs. Scientific historical investigation, with a list of all plants in the work, the literary sources of the medicinal indications and the uses of the plants. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 1969, p. 167.
  3. ↑ EKD, UEK, VELKD: Order of worship texts and songs , p. 101