Königsberg beer kingdom

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Königsberg beer kingdom

In the first half of the 19th century, the fictional Königsberg beer kingdom was part of the beer commentary at Albertus University . It also reflects the city and brewery history of East Prussia's provincial capital.

meaning

Ludwig Clericus illustrated the song Are we not born to glory in the songbook of the Albertina with the map of the beer kingdom . The map is based on the history of the Corps Masovia and the (famous) "beer routine" in Albertina's boyhood custom of 1824.

The Königsberger Bierreich is a large island in the sea of ​​beer, into which its six promontories extend: Cap Schehrter ( beer boy with 1 glass of beer), Cap Doktor (with 2 glasses), Cap Cardinal (with 3), Cap Papst (with 4), Cap Hai and Cap Kirchhof . Far away (bottom left) is the island of the “beer mutes” who drank 6 whole ones.

“The Königsberg drinking commentary, which was recorded in the boys' custom of 1824, formed the basis for the beer commentary of the compatriots, so that its customs also reached Baltia. Some things had changed, however. In the routine came to the Cardinal of Pachollek . It meant the emptying of a substance, while the Pope represented the drinking of a bottle from a "stick". But if the bottle had to be drunk without the glass, it was Haevernick's . Another special feature was the churchyard . Each timpanist had to drink half of the material on the tables. "

- Siegfried Schindelmeiser

In the beer routine, only top-fermented beer was drunk, which was made from a lot of malt in one of the Löbenicht breweries . The bottom-fermented “Bavarian” beer was introduced by Johann Philipp Schifferdecker and brewed in Ponarth and Schönbusch . The “Hefengebirge” naturally belonged to the beer kingdom . The Wickbold beer came from the village of Wickbold in the southeast of Königsberg. The Wickbolder brewery on the railway line to Preussisch Eylau stopped production towards the end of the First World War.

The hot drinks from the “Grogsee” near Skandau , the “Punschsee” near Labiau and the “Flibbsee” were more effective . Flibb was a strong, hot punch made from warm beer and rum. Those who stood up to all of these were eventually knocked over by the 90 percent "Tiegenhöfer Neunkraft" (from the Danziger Vistula lowlands ).

The "Tabakswald" and the "Fleckmoor" round off the pleasures: Rinderfleck is an East Prussian dish that is particularly popular as a hot broth made from finely chopped intestines after pubs .

The other illustrations

The picture before the song refers to the eight batches or rulers of the beer kingdom used in verses 2 and 3 .

The third map of Europe on the top right shows the German Confederation only with Frankfurt am Main , Bronnzell (November 8, 1850) and Olomouc (November 29, 1850).

In the fourth picture, two high-spirited students sit on a dainty rococo sofa in front of the columned Temple of Olympus and mockingly reject the Hebe serving the nectar and ambrosia .

Are we not born to glory

See also

literature

  • Rüdiger Döhler (ed.): Corps Masovia. The 175-year history of Königsberg's oldest and Potsdam's first corporation in the 21st century. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-00-016108-2
  • Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The Albertina and its students 1544 to WS 1850/51 and the history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. (1970-1985). For the first time complete, illustrated and commented new edition in two volumes with an appendix, two registers and a foreword by Franz-Friedrich Prinz von Preussen, edited by R. Döhler and G. v. Klitzing. Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-00-028704-6

Individual evidence

  1. Königsberg beer routine (PDF)
  2. ↑ It is not clear whether the name refers to the Königsberg physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff .
  3. Schindelmeiser, Vol. 1, p. 134.
  4. ^ Herbert Meinhard Mühlpfordt : Yearbook of the Albertus University XIV , p. 172.