Farmer's bell

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The farmer's bell in Süderstapel

The farmer's bells are bells that were used as signaling instruments in the Stapelholm region and are still a typical village symbol there. They will also Stapelholm bell or Stapelholmer Bauer Bell called.

They are smaller than church bells and are either attached to a fork of a branch or between two wooden stakes.

They were located at a central point of the respective location in order to offer the possibility to sound the alarm under certain conditions. Every villager was entitled to ring the bell in the event of impending need and danger.

These dangers included fire, floods and other natural disasters, but warnings of armed attacks were also possible, such as those of the Dithmarscher , who regularly engaged in skirmishes with their neighbors from the areas north of the Eider .

In other cases they were used by the farmer's bailiff , a village official or a publicly appointed person of trust to call the villagers together for meetings, notices and to get work done.

The operation of the bell was also a symbol of the community leaders .

At the end of the wars between the neighbors, the bells were also used for other tasks, such as the registration of births, baptisms, weddings and funerals.

  • The bell in Seeth dates from 1687; In 2008 it was moved from its original location to the neighboring Stapelholm barracks, because the original trunk was rotten and the bell cracked, a new bell was erected in front of the village community center,
  • Norderstapel was cast in 1773,
  • Süderstapel shows the casting date 1874,
  • A historical bell existed in Erfde until the 1930s, which was rebuilt in the mid-1950s,
  • the bell in Tielen was erected in 1987,
  • Another bell is in Drage ,
  • The bell shown in the Schleswig-Holstein open-air museum Molfsee is described as a farmer's bell from Stapelholm, around 1750 .

  • Erfder coat of arms

  • Seether coat of arms

  • Drage

  • Invent

  • Norderstapel

  • Norderstapel detail

  • old Seether bell in the Stapelholm barracks

  • new Seether bell in front of the village community center

  • Tielen

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Silke Göttsch: Stapelholmer Volkskultur, conclusions from historical sources . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1981, ISBN 3-529-02457-0
  2. ↑ Guide to the Schleswig-Holstein Open Air Museum , ISBN 3-529-07210-9

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