Little Paris

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Faust scene in front of Auerbach's cellar in Leipzig , sculpture by Mathieu Molitor
Napoleon's entry into Düsseldorf, which is festively decorated with a replica of the Arc de Triomphe , 1811
Königsallee in Düsseldorf

Little Paris is a slang term for various cities and districts that refers to the French capital, Paris .

Germany

This is one of the names of Leipzig . The widespread use of this title for Leipzig goes back to Goethe and has become a popular term in everyday language . Goethe used this term in Faust I , where he had the frog in the Auerbach's Keller scene in Leipzig say: “I praise my Leipzig! It's a little Paris and educates its people. ”However, this name for Leipzig was known even before Goethe.

Even Dusseldorf reclaims the name Little Paris itself. Here the name goes back to Pierre-Louis Roederer , Napoleon Bonaparte's Minister for the Grand Duchy of Berg . When Napoleon visited the festively decorated capital of the Grand Duchy in November 1811, Roederer wrote in a letter to his wife that the celebrations in Düsseldorf had been the most glamorous of the trip and that Düsseldorf had become a little Paris for a few days .

Also as Little Paris , or at least as Klaa Paris on Frankfurterisch is Frankfurt district of Heddernheim referred. When the Prussians came to Frankfurt in 1866 and tormented the citizens of Frankfurt with assembly and masking bans, the slogan got around: “Go to Heddernheim (at that time still a village suburb in the north of the formerly free imperial city ), there you are as free as in Paris. ”The name Little Paris for the community, known today primarily for its carnival parade, was born.

Another use of the term “Little Paris” is the affectionate name for the place Ergenzingen , which in turn is a district of the episcopal city of Rottenburg am Neckar . The term is used here both in everyday life, for example there is a bistro called "Klein Paris", and especially in connection with the Fasnet . The fool's guild in town, which has existed since 1958, calls itself "Little Paris".

"Little Paris" is also the name of a Fasendgemeinschaft of the fool's guild in Zell am Harmersbach . When the German troops besieged Paris in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/1871, the Ullmanns moved from there to Zell. The house you built on Unterentersbacher Strasse gave the vernacular reason to call the local part “Pariser Vorstadt”. And Ms. Ullmann then became the Zeller “ mother of fools ”. The name "Little Paris" for the Fasend community in the "Paris suburb" was created in 1938 when the then Elferrat decided to subdivide the city in order to have a solid foundation for the Fasend events.

Also Oberdischingen used at least during the carnival time the name Little Paris itself. This goes back to the old castle, in the remains of which is the town hall today. There, the attic is built similarly to what was common in Paris at the time the name was created.

Also Güstrow in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern this "nickname" leads. The background to this is that the Mecklenburg-Schwerin aristocratic family ruling in Schwerin at the time used the Güstrower Schloss as their recreational seat and residence for their courtesans from 1695 , which (because of the communication conditions at the time) was reasonably kept secret at the seat of government in Schwerin, a day trip by stagecoach .

Another place that claims the name Klein Paris is the community of Gerbach , with around 600 inhabitants, in the northern Palatinate , centrally located between Kaiserslautern , Mainz and Bad Kreuznach . Here, however, the Palatine dialect (Klä Paris) has prevailed in pronunciation. The name probably comes from the Napoleonic era, when soldiers enjoyed themselves in Gerbach, as there was probably a relatively high density of bars at that time (similar to Paris). Even today the name is still present in the name of the local carnival club. This is called "KPKV" (Klä Paris Carnival Association).

In Dortmund , too , the name Klein-Paris exists for a parcel in the Aplerbecker Mark district . This goes back to the Franco-German War .

Switzerland

In the 1970s, the straw industry died out in Wohlen , which had brought main occupation, a reputation as a fashion center and the name Chly Paris (Swiss-German Little Paris) for 200 years . Audrey Hepburn , for example, wore straw hats from Wohlen.

Galicia

At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, Pidwolotschysk (Podwołoczyska in Polish) was called Little Paris of the East , a flourishing trade hub between Russia and Central Europe in the newly formed crown land of Galicia within Austria , now Ukraine .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Faust: The first part of the tragedy in the Gutenberg-DE project
  2. ↑ Nicholas Boyle: Goethe. The poet in his time. Volume I: 1749-1790. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 83.
  3. ↑ City Archives State Capital Düsseldorf: From the capital of a Grand Duchy to an industrial city , website on the city history of the city of Düsseldorf, accessed on October 6, 2012
  4. ↑ N for Napoleon: Kaiser und Klein-Paris-Förderer , article from July 19, 2012 in the portal wz-newsline.de , accessed on October 6, 2012
  5. ↑ Thomas Kopp: The Zeller Fasend - Chronicle of the Narrenzunft eV Zell am Harmersbach . Self-published by the Narrenzunft eV, Zell am Harmersbach 1984 pp. 218-219.
  6. ↑ NZZ, May 18, 2018, page 52