Bell bag
Bell bags are small bags , attached either to handles or to long sticks, with a bell at the bottom, which are usually passed around by a church mayor, sacristan or altar boy during church services to hold money offerings ( collections ) .
history
The collection has always been one of several sources of income for the churches. The Wittenbergsche Wochenblatt of December 22, 1775 lists the “Erbzins; Interest on borrowed capital; Adoration; Edition for child baptisms and weddings; Fines and in general ”also the“ bell bag ”.
The use of bell bags was repeatedly criticized. In 1873 the Prague City Council decided
- “... that the improper collection in the church will be stopped. He [the city council] declares that it is a disturbance of prayer if you wave the bell bag under the nose of those who are praying in the church, and has stopped this profanation of the house of God in all churches. "
Before the introduction of the church tax (in Germany with the Weimar Republic ) the staff of the churches, especially the sexton, were dependent on the collection. Countless reports speak of fraud against the church when believers threw buttons into the bell bag instead of coins:
- “When the sexton went back with the bag, the farmer Martin held his fist over it and let something fall from it that didn't sound like money. The sexton correctly found a button again. "
Executions
Some churches have collection boxes at the exit instead of or in addition to the doorbell bag; some maintain the tradition of handling the altar , in which the congregation places the sacrifice in a bowl behind the altar. In the narrow sense but shells, collecting cans, are collection plate , collection baskets , sacrificial bowls and Bedel no collection plate, they meet only the same purpose. They are therefore only special forms of the bell bag in their function.
A Bedel (also including: alms board , poor board , begging board , collecting board , alms scoop ) is an artistically made wooden vessel with an open box at the end for collecting donations from the standing or sitting parish. To decorate the Bedel, works of goldsmithing were also incorporated in the late Gothic . The distribution area of the Bedel is mainly the Baltic Sea area .
Digital doorbell bag
In the summer of 2018, the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia applied for a patent for the digital bell pouch . This has a display and, in addition to the traditional cash deposit in the cloth bag, also enables card payments without entering a PIN . A nationwide app is also being planned with which a collection can be given using a smartphone.
literature
- Hans Schemann: Deutsche Idiomatik: Dictionary of German idioms in context. Walter de Gruyter 2011, ISBN 3-11-021789-9 , p. 416.
- Hans Wentzel, Bedel , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte, Vol. II (1938), Sp. 167–172; in: RDK Labor, online
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kikeriki of November 13, 1873
- ↑ Salzburg Chronicle of May 29, 1888
- ↑ www.ekbo.de | Detail. Accessed October 31, 2018 (German).
- ↑ a b c press report Nordbayern.de