Heather queen
A heather queen is a representative of a certain place or region, elected as a product queen for a year, which is mostly located in a heathland . The freestyle is usually celebrated as part of a city festival, such as a heather blossom festival . The voting process differs from place to place.
Venues
The choice of a heather queen is particularly widespread in the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony . The best-known elections have been held in Schneverdingen since 1922 and in Amelinghausen since 1949 , where the male counterpart, the Heidebock, has also been elected since 1955. The Amelinghausen heather queen has been chosen as part of the heather blossom festival since 1950. Probably the most prominent former heather queen is Jenny Elvers from Amelinghausen . Other places in the Lüneburg Heath with a heather queen include Gifhorn , Meißendorf , Undeloh , Holm-Seppensen , Sprakensehl , Wittorf , Baven and Nemitz ( Nemitzer Heide ).
But there are also occasional elections for heather queens outside the Lüneburg Heath. The municipality of Colbitz in the Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide in Saxony-Anhalt and the municipality of Steinhagen in North Rhine-Westphalia in the Feuchtwiese Vennheide nature reserve, for example, annually elect a queen. In the Brandenburg town of Zühlsdorf , men and women can also be elected to be the heather king at the annual heather festival.
There are also a few international elections. There has been a Queen of Heather in the Scottish town of Forth since 1932 . During the Highland Games in Otago , New Zealand , one item on the program is also the election of a heather queen. In Ede , the Netherlands, two heather queens are elected annually as part of the Heideweek .
The heather queen in art and culture
The author Anna Hottner-Grefe (1867-1946) published the novel Susanne D'Obrie, The Heathen Queen in 1929 . The writer Elisabeth Schröder (1877–1953) wrote a fairy tale game with the title The Heathen Queen . Anne Teipel's children 's book The Heidekrönchen from 1950 tells the love story between the heather queen Heidemarie and a king.
In the 1960 film When the Heath Is Blooming, the protagonist Anne Harkort, played by Veronika Bayer , is elected the heather queen at the end of the film.
Friedrich-Josef "Frijo" Müller-Belecke (1932–2008) created a bronze sculpture entitled Heidekönigin , which was installed in 2001 in Schneverdingen.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See heide-touristik.de
- ^ Andreas Schlueter: Lüneburg: The sweet life with salt . In: faz.net, accessed April 7, 2011.
- ↑ Ulrich Koglin , Achim Tacke : Landpartie 2. On the way to the north . Schlütersche, Hannover 2002, p. 125.
- ↑ List of the heather queens on the website of the Association of German Queens
- ↑ Article on the parish of Forth (Scotland)
- ↑ Program of the Highland Games 2010 ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 10 kB) in Otago (New Zealand) (English)
