Egg slicing
The Eierschibbeln or Eierschippeln is a competition of the Customs to Easter is executed in different parts of Germany.
execution
At the top of a slope with a slight incline, thin strips about three meters long are stuck into the ground at an angle of three centimeters apart. The Easter eggs are unrolled over these two strips ("shaved"). A second egg - the “set egg” - is placed where this "shuffle" comes to a halt. If a participant hits a set egg with his fist, the competition director will mark this as a hit. The participant with the most hits is the Schibbel king or queen.
Regional distribution
Northern and Eastern Germany
In East Friesland , Brandenburg and Upper Lusatia , especially in Bautzen , this Easter custom is also used as "egg pushing" (Upper Lusatian dialect: Oarscheim ).
Westerwald
In Norken in the Westerwald, egg shingling has been cultivated for over 100 years.
Southern Germany
In Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg , this custom is still practiced to a lesser extent as egg laying . In the garden, two slats are set up as an inclined plane on which the eggs can roll down. To count the points, a penny is placed on each egg lying in the meadow. Whose egg pushes the penny from another egg may keep the other penny. In the end, the winner is whoever has the most pennies.
Web links
- Egg slices in norks
- Egg chipping in Cratzenbach ( Memento from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- Egg hacking in Fichtenberg