Bixnmacherei
Signs with the inscription Bixnmacherei show the birth of a female baby , especially in rural areas of Upper Bavaria . Often these signs are decorated with numerous empty tins.
background
The empty cans were a call to the village community and relatives to contribute with donations. They remind us that the birth of daughters used to be a financial burden for farming families because they did not allow themselves to be put to work to the same extent as sons and, moreover, the parents had to raise bridal money before their wedding.
The term Bixn also depends somewhat on inheritance law and the sparse settlement in the Oberland or the remote valleys of the Alps. If an old farmer only got girls, the young farmer was missing as a "pension". So you informed neighbors early on that you were looking for a son-in-law. Very important for the second and third born of the neighbors to come to a farm.
Originally, a man who only fathered daughters was called a "Bixnmacher". The custom is now used even after the birth of a single girl.
In Bavaria, the word "Bixn" generally means a woman. Linguists point out that the reduction to the female genitalia (box = vagina ) always resonates and the term is therefore to be understood as pejoration.
The customs around the bixnmacherei form an analogy to the rag making or the zip making .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bavarian Rural Women's Association: Welcome child! Customs for birth (p. 4) on Frauenbund-bayern.de, accessed on March 23, 2020.
- ↑ needumsjahr.de : Bixnmacherei on needumsjahr.de , accessed on March 23, 2020.
- ↑ Iseninfos: Bixnmacherei an der Münchner Straße on iseninfos.de, accessed on March 23, 2020.
- ↑ Hans Kratzer: The eroticism of a Bavarian Bixn on sueddeutsche.de, accessed on March 23, 2020.
- ↑ Mittelbayerische Zeitung: Von Büchsen, Britschen und Schnallen on Mittelbayerische.de , accessed on March 23, 2020.