Purse laundering
The figure of the purse washer at the Mainz carnival fountain
Purse laundering (also Geldbeitlwäsch ) mainly means an event in the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival that takes place on Ash Wednesday .
It marks the end of the current season for most fools guilds . The purses are empty and the opportunity is taken to wash them and, according to an old belief, to put new money in the bags. The participants are mostly dressed in black and carry out this custom full of mourning with loud howling.
For example, the following purse washes are known:
- Munich . Since the 1950s, representatives of the city's top have been washing the city sack in the fish fountain , following a custom of the "little people" that is said to be traced back to the 15th century.
- Bonn , with Prince and Bonna on the banks of the Rhine . The evening before, the evening of Violet Tuesday , Prince and Bonna had their insignia removed and they came dressed in black.
- Hanover , the carnival in Hanover ends on Ash Wednesday with the wallet washing at the Maschsee .
- Furtwangen fools guild
- Wolfacher Fasnet ; known since 1865
- Carnival Society Narrlangia Rot-Weiss e. V .; since 1967 in Schwabach in Erlangen
- Purse laundering in the Freiburg Bächle
- Bregenz , since the 1920s in the upper town (old town) at the fountain of Ehre-Guta-Platz
The purse washer is also one of over 200 figures at the Mainz Carnival Fountain .
Web links
- Wallet washing on the website of the city of Munich
- What to do with chronic consumption in your wallet? Washing your wallet in the Munich Fischbrunnen!
- Purse laundering
- Purse laundering Wolfach
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hope for a full city bag . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . Munich February 6, 2008 ( online [accessed August 24, 2012]).
- ↑ Messages . In: Landeshauptstadt München (Ed.): Rathaus-Umschau . No. 37 . Munich February 23, 2012, wallet washing in the Fischbrunnen, p. 3 ( muenchen.de [PDF; 900 kB ; accessed on August 24, 2012]).
- ↑ Hanoverians say goodbye to the carnival. Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Clean wallets should bring new money soon - traditional wallet washing on Ash Wednesday: Narrlangia President dips wallets in Schwabach on nordbayern.de from February 23, 2012
- ^ Purse laundering Freiburg , accessed on February 21, 2017.