Wooden comment

Wooden commentary as a caricature on new protective measures for the scale length (1836)

Under Holzkomment (also wood Comment ) refers to the lads language since the late 17th century generally outside the applicable Comments standing fight with wood or canes. This is also known as the stick game or wooden duel (Ragocky 1831).

Germany

The wood comment has been carried out especially in Jena since the banning of the scale through the duel mandate of 1684 with the so-called Ziegenhainer , which was originally made from the overgrown and particularly hard wood of the cornel cherry . That is why Vollman in 1846 called the wooden comment “the Ziegenhainer pate is enough”. The threat comes with the words “Do you want wood?” (Wallis 1813).

With the wooden comment in particular those disputes were settled for which comment-like treatment was impossible. Either if a satisfaction cannot be given due to the lower position of an opponent or if you want to sit in a real avantage if the satisfaction with saber, sword or pistol is not given. From the original beating with wooden sticks, the term wooden comment was also applied to a fight with fists, one "wooded". Since the 1970s, carrying couleur sticks has gone out of fashion, and with it the use of wooden comments.

Austria

The 1889 oyster battle is the most famous controversy of the so-called wood comment in Austria. With the emergence of Catholic student associations since the end of the 19th century, there were regular violent clashes between liberal and Catholic fraternity students loyal to Austria. The focus of the Holzkomment was in Graz and its university, which was only founded in 1895.

swell

• Silenus, CG: Hortus injuriarum or: Der fein Couleurbummel , Potopolis 2010, p. 48 ISBN 978-3-8391-8786-9
• J. Vollmann: Burschicoses Dictionary , Ragaz 1846
• Carl Albert Constantin von Ragocky: The Flotte Bursch , Leipzig 1831
• Daniel Ludwig Wallis : Most common expressions and idioms of the students . In: The Göttinger Student , Göttingen 1813

Individual evidence

1. ^ Catholic associations and the Cartel associations. In: www.oecv.de. Retrieved May 15, 2015 .