Kenkentjüch

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Pastries in the Kenkenbuum even Jöölboom called

Kenkentjüch is a Christmas biscuit from North Frisia in Schleswig-Holstein . The name comes from the Fering and Öömrang , the Föhrer and Amrumer dialects of the North Frisian , and literally means “children's stuff”, whereby the child in this case means the Christ Child . The Christmas tree in North Frisia is also called Kenkenbuum . This pastry traditionally consists of the figures Adam and Eve , a pig, a cow, a sheep, a horse, a rooster, a fish as well as a sailing ship and a mill. The animal figures are seen as a symbolic substitute for pre-Christian offerings. The sailing ship indicates the seafaring that was carried out for centuries and the mill indicates agriculture.

The cookies are hung as jewelry on the traditional Kenkenboom or placed on the tree in the form of Adam and Eve. The Kenkenboom (also Kenkenbuum , Sölring Jöölboom , Mooring Kinkenbuum or Jülbuum ) is a small tree made of wood that is mainly placed in the window on the North Frisian Islands , but also on the North Frisian mainland, at Christmas time. There are often candles on the tree and boxwood branches hang in it. It is the traditional shape of a symbolic Christmas tree.

literature

  • Paul Selk, Alfred Kamphausen : Midwinter and Christmas in Schleswig-Holstein. A folklore representation. Westholsteinische Verlagsanstalt Boyens & Co., Heide 1972, ISBN 3804201156 , p. 31 as well as illustrations 15, 23, 24.

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