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Heiligobndlied, printed in 1848 by Johann Traugott Lindner in Walks through the most interesting areas of the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains

According to unconfirmed information, the Heiligobndlied (also Heiligohmdlied ) is probably the longest Christmas carol in the world. It was probably created around 1799 in Annaberg in the Ore Mountains . The oldest documented record dates from 1836.

history

The original version of the song, written in the Ore Mountains dialect , consisted of 13 stanzas (according to other sources 14 or 16 stanzas), which are attributed to Johanne Amalie von Elterlein .

There are many indications that the text was written around 1799, when Johanna Amalie was 15 years old and lived with her family in the immediate vicinity of Annaberger Markt. This assumption is based in particular on the urban-bourgeois environment dealt with in her verses and the persons named (including mother, father, brother, apprentice and service cook), who can be found under their civil names in the population tables of the years 1799 and 1800 in the Annaberg city archive.

Johann Traugott Lindner reported in 1848 in walks through the most interesting areas of the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains from Großpöhla about the origin of the song:

"Among the proletarians [there are] a lot of strange customs and superstitious demeanor characteristic of family life, especially at Christmas time, which one encounters in the following little song, which a Pöhlaerin wrote in her own dialect."

This is followed by 14 stanzas of the Holy Ombudsman under the heading Christmas . Lindner does not mention the name of the author, Johanne Amalie von Elterlein .

Countless stanzas have been added to the Holy Obsolete and have continued to this day, because this cheerful song made up of short stanzas and a simple refrain encouraged numerous further poems. A large part of these additional poems were written down, so that today, after Manfred Blechschmidt's compilation, the Holy Ombudsman consists of at least 156 stanzas.

In the Ore Mountains this song is considered the most important Christmas carol of all and, together with the Vuglbärbaam by Max Schreyer , is one of the most important songs of the Ore Mountains folklore.

The illustrations on the song postcards for the Heiligobndlied come from the Annaberg painter Rudolf Köselitz .

song lyrics

1. Heit is dr hol'ge Ohmd you mowing,
troubles me pour lead.
Praise, laf ner fix zer Hanne-Ließ,
|: it has to be at a time. : |

Refrain : Trara Tralala Trara Tralala
Praise, laf ner fix zer Hanne-Ließ, she
has to go.

2. I lifted a sachzn Butterstolln,
as long as the Ufnbank, not
when mr die zamm gassn hom,
|: then mr olle be sick. : |

Refrain
...

(different counting)

literature

  • Götz Altmann : The Heilig-Ohmd-Lied - an Erzgebirge Christmas folk song. In: Sächsische Heimatblätter 6/1987, ISSN  0486-8234 , pp. 267-272.
  • Manfred Blechschmidt : The 156 stanzas of the well-known Erzgebirge Heiligobndliedes. 2nd Edition. Altis, Friedrichsthal 2007, ISBN 978-3-910195-36-3 . (All 156 known stanzas are printed with details of the authors or publications)
  • Johanna Amalie von Elterlein: The Heiligohmdlied. Private printing. Bärenreiterdr., Kassel undated [1938].
  • Johanna Amalie von Elterlein; Holy Ohm song. Hartenstein, Hamburg / Erich Matthes , Leipzig undated [1949].
  • Kurt Arnold Findeisen . The Erzgebirge Christmas Eve song, sung in the Erzgebirge for centuries. Stuttgart 1927
  • Horst Henschel : The Christmas carol of the Erzgebirge. In: Mitteldeutsche Blätter für Volkskunde, 1936, pp. 81–86.
  • Bernd Lahl : On the 225th birthday of Johanne Amalie Benkert. - Her Christmas Eve song was written in Annaberg around 1799. In: Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 6/2009, ISSN  0232-6078 , pp. 23-25.
  • Heilig-Ohmd-Lied: Erzgebirg. Christmas Folk song. Bild und Heimat, Reichenbach (Vogtl.) 1978.

Audio documents

  • Polyphon 30 565 (23 980) (926 ar): 'S Heilig Ohmd-Lied. Max Wenzel (1879–1946), with piano accompaniment. Up. 1921.

Movies

  • Sabine Barth: Central Germany's Christmas anthem. Listened to the people by Johanna Amalie von Elterlein. in: CVs, episode 85. MDR television 2004, accompanying text

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c See Erzgebirgische Heimatblätter 6/2009, pp. 23–24.
  2. ↑ Manfred Blechschmidt : The 156 stanzas of the well-known Erzgebirge Heiligobndliedes. 2nd Edition. Altis-Verlag, Friedrichsthal 2007, p. 42
  3. ↑ a b Sabine Barth: The Christmas anthem of Central Germany. Listened to the people by Johanna Amalie von Elterlein. in: CVs, episode 85. MDR TV 2004, accompanying text ( memento of the original from January 29, 2018 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
  4. ^ Johann Traugott Lindner : Walks through the most interesting areas of the Saxon Upper Ore Mountains . Rudolph and Dieterici Verlag, Annaberg 1848, pp. 52–54 ( digitized in the Google book search).
  5. ↑ Manfred Blechschmidt : The 156 stanzas of the well-known Erzgebirge Heiligobndliedes. 2nd Edition. Altis-Verlag, Friedrichsthal 2007