Hohenzollernlied

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Plate no. 7 of the Kaiserweg Bisingen: The Hohenzollern song .

The Hohenzollern song (also Zollernlied ) is the hymn of Hohenzollern , a historic state in what is now Baden-Württemberg .

The focus of the song is the Zoller , a striking mountain in the communities of Hechingen and Bisingen on the edge of the Swabian Alb , on which Hohenzollern Castle is visible from afar .

origin

The origin of the song is controversial, it is first recorded in the German song library from 1880. The text is ascribed to two different authors: On the one hand, the soldier Konrad Killmaier from Hechingen, who served in a Hohenzollern fusilier regiment in Saarlouis from 1858 to 1861 , and his text to the soldier-reservist song What is flashing so friendly in the distance? (Title: Long live the reserve man ) should have underlined. - On the other hand, the lyrics are ascribed to the post-graduate Hermann Vitalowitz. He wrote the text in 1849 on the occasion of the handover of Hohenzollern to Prussia . Hohenzollern fell to Prussia when the princes of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen and Hohenzollern-Hechingen waived their government.

The text has been partially changed, which is normal for folk songs due to the oral distribution and transmission. In Sigmaringen, a slightly modified melodic and textual version is maintained. There is a fourth stanza in the songbook Die Lieder der Deutschen . This was created in 1973 during the district reform and was composed by the then District Administrator Hans Speidel from Hechingen.

melody

The Hohenzollern song was spread around 1860. The thesis that the melody should go back to the French song Ma Normandie , as is sometimes claimed, proves to be untenable. Neither the melody structure, note values, rhythm nor time signature of this song have any resemblance to the melody of the Hohenzollernlied. The melody was originally a military-style song with tight and dotted eighth and sixteenth notes without a time change in three-time. In the course of oral tradition, the first part was changed into a lyrical and calmly flowing melody in four-time. The middle section originally went back to the original three-bar; the final part of the entire a - b - a form goes back to the initial four-bar.

The well-known Silcherchor Zollern-Alb under the direction of Josef Kästle recorded the Hohenzollernlied in 1983 in the current version based on a male choir set by the Reutlingen composer Adolf Koch on a single record.

text

Castle Hohenzollern
The Zoller
Not far from Württemberg and Baden ,
of Bavaria and beautiful Switzerland ,
there is a mountain so high
which is called the Hohenzollern.
He looks down so proud and bold
to all who pass by
on Hohenzollern's steep rock
where unity rests undaunted!
The legend goes from this mountain
that awakens grave suffering in the country,
and many a father knows the complaint
which extends to his son;
they took him away to the distant land,
the sweetheart thinks he is banished
from Hohenzollern's steep rock,
where unity rests undaunted!
But the long-awaited hour comes
that calls us back home,
then we cheer with happy lips
to the beautiful Hohenzollern.
And call out loud: Oh homeland,
how is my heart spellbound to you
on Hohenzollern's steep cliffs,
where unity rests undaunted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Based on the note by Karl Becker. In: German Soldier Song Book . Moritz Schauenburg, Lahr 1893. P. 134 f.
  2. ↑ Eckhard John (Ed.): Volkslied - Hymne - political song. Popular songs in Baden-Württemberg. (= Folksong Studies , Volume 3). Waxmann Verlag, Münster 2003, ISBN 978-3-8309-6351-6 , note 35, p. 67, limited preview in the Google book search.
  3. ↑ Ernst Wintergerst: Balsam for the people's soul. In: Hohenzollerische Zeitung. May 26, 2009. Retrieved December 12, 2009 .
  4. ^ Sigmaringen Castle - The Hohenzollern song. November 29, 2009, accessed January 21, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Hubert Deuringer : The songs of the Germans . GIE, Tübingen 2011. p. 549. (melodic and with time changes as usual today)
  6. ^ Anniversary page "50 Years of Baden-Württemberg" of the state government. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved December 12, 2009 .
  7. ↑ Ma Normandie et Man Bieau P'tit Jèrri - Beautiful Jersey, Gem of the Sea. Accessed January 21, 2020 .
  8. ↑ also: and also beautiful Switzerland ; see: Liedtexte.eu
  9. ↑ also: there rises a mountain of golden seeds ; see Petermangold.de
  10. ↑ also: which extends into (the) whole country ; see Petermangold.de , Hohenzollern.com ( Memento from November 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ↑ Also: the startled him and his son ; see Ingeb.org