Eberbacher Cuckoo Market
The Eberbacher Cuckoo Market is a folk festival in Eberbach am Neckar . It takes place annually over the long weekend around the last Sunday in August, from Friday to Tuesday. The organizer is the city administration of Eberbach. Today, in addition to the amusement park with rides, showman stands and tents, there is a large number of smaller stalls on the market . A Simmental cattle show is also held on one of the market days . The market closes with fireworks on Tuesdays.
history
The Eberbach cuckoo market was held for the first time from October 4 to 6, 1929. With it one hoped for an economic upswing after Eberbach had lost the Baden district office in 1924 and its regional importance had declined. The market should stimulate trade and tourism . From the beginning there was an amusement park, trade and agricultural exhibitions and a cattle market . In addition to the Beerfeld horse market and the Michelstadt bees market, the Eberbach cuckoo market is one of the most important annual fairs in the Odenwald / Neckar region.
When applying the market in Baden management, the city Eberbach was referring to a since the times of the Palatinate lent market law . In 1394, sovereign Palatine Count Ruprecht II allowed Eberbach to hold a fair on St. Giles Day on September 1, “For the benefit of the city and the country”. Everyone had access to the city, safe passage three days before and after market day - except for thieves and murderers. At that time Eberbach was an important community , had the seat of a Palatinate bailiwick .
In 2015 the cuckoo market was celebrated for the 80th time. It did not take place during the Second World War from 1939 to 1945. In 1941 and 1942 there was a "Volksfest" with few showmen in August / September, but this was not an official cuckoo market. The Eberbacher Cuckoo Market is now at its third inner-city location. From 1929 until the construction of the Uferstraße 37 in 1959, the festival area was on the Lauer, the Neckar foreland . Then the market moved to the old town and its immediate surroundings. In 1981 the market area was moved from the right to the left side of the Neckar in the Neckarwimmersbach district.
The name cuckoo market goes back to the so-called cuckoo 's meal, which took place in the current district of Neckarwimmersbach in 1604, where an Eberbacher was served a roasted cuckoo instead of an ordered pigeon . This was followed by a process before the Eberbach City Court and then before the Eberbach Central Court , where the judgment was pronounced on January 8, 1605 . A drastic penalty was imposed on the landlord because he had brought "scolding and disgrace" over the guest. In return, the guest was sentenced to a small sentence for insulting the host. The verdict in this cuckoo trial was discovered in 2004 in the General State Archives in Karlsruhe .
When naming the cuckoo market, the Eberbachers took up their nickname cuckoo eater or cuckoo .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stadtarchiv Eberbach, Eberbacher Geschichtsblätter of different years, Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung from 10./11. August 2013, Eberbacher Zeitung, September 3, 2016