Geelbein
Geelbein ( Low German for "yellow leg") is a popular regional name in the Magdeburg area.
Ditfurt
According to legend, the inhabitants of the village of Ditfurt in Saxony-Anhalt are called this because of their peasant cunning . The place belonged to the DamenstiftsQuedlinburg and was therefore subject to tax .
Those charges were usually in the form of natural history made - including eggs . Due to the long way to the abbess's Quedlinburg castle, the farmers decided to transport the taxes with an ox cart . However, this car did not hold all of the residents' eggs. So a farmer's wife came up with the idea of simply kicking the eggs down to create more space. After a farmer had done this, there was great laughter and the crowd mocked the yellowed legs: "... look at the Geelbein".
use
The history of the Geelbeine was presented, mostly with illustrations, on various objects (including beer mugs, murals). The emergency money from 1921 also had the Geelbein motif. The end of a poem reads:
- As one now done the work
- everyone laughs: "Look at the Geelbein"
- - And Ditfurt's farmer is in the country
- still known today as "Geelbein".
Individual evidence
- ↑ z. B. also "Jälbein", http://www.volksstimme.de/nachrichten/lokal/haldensleben/1467900_jaelbeine-schiessen-wieder-um-die-pokale.html
- ↑ Andreas Bürkner: "Klapper" separates the wheat from the chaff. Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, October 7, 2008, accessed on July 16, 2009 .
- ^ Hans L. Grabowski, Manfred Mehl: Deutsches Notgeld , Battenberg and Gietl, 2003, ISBN 3-924861-70-6 ( on GoogleBook )