Binger pencil

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Binger pencil based on an old, local Binger legend

The Binger pencil is the name of a legend about the members of the Binger city ​​council , in which a corkscrew came up with this name. It was told in a similar form about the Johannisberg monastery in the Rheingau .

legend

At a meeting, the mayor wanted to note an important decision of the city council. The goose quill broke off the record-keeping town clerk PF Weizel . He asked the rest of the council members for a pencil. Unfortunately, no council member has one on hand. When a little later some wine bottles were brought in to celebrate the decision, every member of the city council had a corkscrew at their fingertips. Since then, a corkscrew has also been called a Binger pencil in the area .

According to another variant of the legend, it is said to have been a meeting between the Bishop of Mainz and his clergy in Bingen Castle Klopp .

reception

In 1860, carnivalists from Bingen took the Binger pencil with them to a carnival event in Mainz. In 1868, in a book about West Germany in the town article on Bingen, the name of the plug puller as "Binger Pencil" was first mentioned. In 1894 the legend appeared for the first time in Karl Hessel's book Sagas and Stories of the Nahetals and then in 1924 in Paul Zaunert's book Rhineland Sages , in each case without dating the council meeting. Only in a later retelling from 1954 was the Bingen council meeting dated to 1752.

The meeting room of the Bingen City Council is still in Klopp Castle today . The Binger pencil has been presented annually to a celebrity by the Bingen Wine Senate since 1981 as an insignia for appointment as an honorary senator.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl Hessel: Legends and Stories of the Nahetals , page 26, F. Kilian, 1913 ( first edition from 1894 online at dilibri; "The Binger Pencil" on p. 5f PDF (16.1 MB) .) Limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ↑ The story of the Binger Pencil , accessed on December 1, 2019
  3. ^ A b Paul Zaunert : Rhineland Sagen , E. Diederichs, 1924, pages 112-113, limited preview in the Google book search, on Project Gutenberg-DE Online
  4. ↑ * Karl Christoffel : Wine flows through the ages: The wonderful history of wine . De Gruyter, 1957 (Reprint 2018), ISBN 978-3111311678 , p. 132. [1]
  5. ↑ Hermann Jung : When you sit with wine: a happy and contemplative wine journey. Accompanied with brush and pen, C. Lange, 1951, p. 135 [2]
  6. ↑ Program of the big festivals to celebrate the two times 11th anniversary of the glorious government of Prince Carneval XXII: Carneval-Verein 1860, p. 6 von Bingen with the Binger pencil.
  7. ^ Ferdinand Heyl: West Germany, Bibliograph. Inst., 1868, p. 231 [3]
  8. ^ Weinbauverband Rheinhessen, Verlag Dr. Hans Krach, 1954, pages 109–110, limited preview in the Google book search
  9. ↑ Wetterfee became honorary senator , kreuznacher-rundschau.de, November 21, 2016
  10. ↑ Honorary Senators, bingerweinsenat.de, accessed on December 12, 2019