Toilets
Kloatscheeten is a popular sport especially in the county of Bentheim , but also partly in the neighboring Emsland . A distinction must be made here between the Sport-Kloatscheeters of the Nordhorner Sportkloatscheeter Association (NSKV) and the Hobby-Kloatscheeters.
history
Kloatscheeten is an ancient custom, but little is known about the beginning. In entries found by chance in a protocol of the church council of the Reformed community Bad Bentheim from the years 1630 and 1631, the cloet and the "playing with the boll and cloet" are mentioned. Kloatscheeten was presented as a sport at the German Gymnastics Festival in Leipzig in 1913.
Similar sports are Boßeln and Klootschießen , which are mainly played further north in East Frisia .
Kloat and throwing technique
The sports equipment is the Kloat, a roughly 380 to 450 gram and 40 to 45 millimeter thick, rounded disc with a diameter of 70 to 80 mm. There is a lead core in the middle . He is thrown as far as possible with an under-shoulder throw, while the rolling out (largest portion) of the cloat is part of the distance achieved by a throw. Before the throw, the padd or the street (throwing distance) is "read" in order to achieve the best distance. By rolling the cloat over the fingers and placing it on the street / path, the cloat is set in rotation and gyro-stabilized . Any stones or bumps lying on the paddles can have a positive as well as a negative impact on the direction of the cloat with regard to the throwing distance.
Sports jackets
As a club, the Kloatscheeten is operated by more than 400 Grafschafter Kloatscheetern as an amateur sport. Throwing takes place on the Nordhorn Sportkloatscheeter facility in the Klausheide district .
The rules of the Nordhorner Sportkloatscheetervereinigung 1975 e apply to Sportkloatscheeten. V. In the league games, two teams with five throwers each (women's league four throwers) compete against each other. The 1st thrower of team A throws against the 1st thrower of team B, 2nd thrower team A against 2nd thrower team B, etc. In order to maintain this pairing with the expected differences in the throwing distances, Schötts (game point) be achieved. A Schött is always achieved for a team when z. B. Team A threw one less throw than team B. For all competitions the distance to be covered is approx. 5.5 km. The competitions take place on the Fritz Hilkmann Sportkloatscheeter facility in Klausheide.
The Nordhorn Sportkloatscheeter have so far participated five times (2001, 2003, 2005, 2007 and 2009) in the German championships in Boßeln and Klootschießen (Klootschießen, field competition with the Holland ball, street competition with rubber ball and plastic ball). Despite the unfamiliar sports equipment, excellent results were achieved. In 2005 the German championships took place in Nordhorn. In the youth field, a German championship title was achieved in the street competition with the plastic ball. The then 15-year-old Timo Stockhorst from KC Achter de Dannen became the German champion.
The most successful club in recent years is KC Fortuna '78. In the 2007/2008 season, Fortuna was the second club ever to achieve the triple in the NSKV, consisting of victories at the invitation tournament, mayor's cup and the city team championship in the NSKV performance class. In the 2009/2010 season 2 of the 3 big titles were won.
Alcohol consumption is strictly forbidden in the club-like sports toilet before or during the competitions. This differs from the many groups that meet for the hobby dumpster.
Hobby toilets
At the beginning of the new year (until around the end of March) is the season of the hobby toilet bowl. The focus here is clearly on the sociable. Neighborhoods, bowling clubs, sports clubs of any kind, company employees, offices or administrations come together for this. Before the start of the game, two teams are usually formed and the order of the throwers is drawn. The route, mostly along farm and field paths, has also been selected beforehand. It starts with the first player on a team to roll the cloat across the track with momentum. The first thrower of the opposing team tries to create a further distance with a second cloat. From the respective end point of the throw, the next player of the respective team rolls on. The winner is the team whose Kloat has covered the longest distance after one round.
But there is also the target throwing (e.g. in position ), where there is a point for a team that hits a previously marked mark first with the cloat. There are then about eleven points per route. A cloat often leaves the route and has to be laboriously recovered from the side room or from an adjacent moat. For this purpose, a so-called toilet finder is carried to facilitate the search. At intersections there is a guard for cross traffic.
Various drinks such as beer, schnapps, liqueurs, as well as tea and coffee are taken along for the three to five-hour fun in the great outdoors. There are various rituals, such as drinking a liqueur at intersections. Also, refreshments like rolls, cheese and sausage canapes are not missing. Hand carts or similar equipment serve as a means of transport .
When it gets dark, the groups regularly go to restaurants and have a previously ordered hearty meal . It usually consists of kale with sausages and bacon. Since many groups often meet in the restaurants, the evening often ends with dance and music, the so-called Kloatscheeter ball .
For two years now, the Hobby-Kloatscheeten has been running true to the rules described and with original play equipment from the Grafschaft Bentheim also in the vineyards of the Rheingau ( Hattenheim ) by the "Club der Toten Glieder" and its sympathizers. A particular challenge here is to roll the play equipment as far as possible despite the geographic features (mountains).
In February 2012, a team from the Rheingau competed fairly with local Kloat societies for the first time in the "motherland of Kloat", the county of Bentheim. In 2013 an athlete from Ireland also took part in the ranks of the "Club of the Dead Limbs" in the county 's traditional toilet. Immediately enthusiastic about the sport and the social environment, he brought the idea of that game to the "Green Island", where it is now also celebrated once a year in Donegal. "Cloatscheeten" thus finds its way into the series of venerable Irish sports. The expansion towards the south continues, however. In January 2013 a group of exiled counters went to Riemer Park in Munich to practice this popular sport.
Since 1993, every year on the 2nd weekend in February, a group from Düsseldorf has been going to Uelsen to indulge in the convivial Kloatscheeten. What is unusual for the locals is the fact that this also brought Carnival to the county. The reason: Carnival is sometimes held in the Rhineland on the 2nd weekend in February. So the locals had to get used to the fact that masked toilets appeared on the padd. Of course combined with a happy Helau. It goes without saying that since then the toilet seat has become more and more popular in Düsseldorf.
Eject king
Casting the king or queen is an ancient custom. The king or queen is usually thrown out after the convivial round of Kloatscheeter. To do this, both teams stand opposite each other at a certain distance (10 to 25 meters). In the middle between them a bottle is placed in a plastic bag. Now the teams try to take turns hitting and destroying the bottle. The king or queen of the Kloatscheeter round is the thrower who destroys the bottle by throwing it. The previous thrower is considered the loser of the game and has to organize the toilet for this group for the next year.
On the other hand, there are also some troops who choose their king by the furthest throw. So each participant throws as far as he can over the same distance, the furthest of the two teams becomes the new king, and there is also a name for the last place, the so-called tuber.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnd Krüger : Incorporating traditional games into modern sports. The German Experience. In: E. De Vroede, R. Renson (Eds.): Proceedings of the 2nd European Seminar on Traditional Games. Leuven 12-16 Sept. 1990. Vlaamse Volkssport Centrale, Löwen 1991, pp. 45-54.
- ^ History of the KC Fortuna '78