Monastery ox train

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The monastery ox in Obernstrasse in 1845

The monastery ox train was a custom that existed in Bremen from the beginning of the 17th century to the end of the 19th century.

In 1531 a hospital was set up in the old St. John's Monastery in Bremen's old town , which was closed after the Reformation , and later also accommodated the mentally ill. In order to support this institution, the Bremen council allowed in 1630 to organize a public collection from then on. Two stately oxen with gilded horns adorned with wreaths were led through the city and then raffled off. The surplus from the raffle benefited the hospital, but even after it had moved to Neustadt in 1691 , the annual event was still called the old way, although the proceeds no longer went to the hospital in the former monastery . This "monastery ox train" was held every year at the time of the free market . The last move took place in 1871, the last raffle in 1896.

Depiction of the "monastery ox train" in relief on the so-called. Stone houses vase

In 1856 a memorial was erected to the monastery ox train with the so-called “ stone house vase ” in the Bremen ramparts , which today still stands in the same place near the Herdentor .

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