Kilmer mares
The Kilmerstuten (in some regions also Kilberstuten ) is a special type of mares and a plait , traditionally in northwest Germany is consumed. The bakery product called Kilmerstuten has the same composition as a Weggen (name in southwestern Lower Saxony ) and a Kroamstuten (name in the Münsterland ). Also Weggen and Kroamstuten be handed young parents like a Kilmerstuten on ladders; Bringing away is therefore a fixed phrase in southwestern Lower Saxony.
ingredients
A Kilmerstuten is a yeast dough bread made from wheat flour, water, fat, sugar, yeast and salt and raisins. In most cases, the raisin dough is also covered with a frosting or fondant .
Background and customs
The peculiarity of the Kilmer mares is that they are actually only baked and consumed for a specific occasion. At the same time, breads called “Kilmer mares”, also cut into slices, are also sold. B. on the Vechtaer Stoppelmarkt . In 2002, 2005 and 2008, the city of Vechta hosted an event called “Stoppelmarkt” in the State Representation of Lower Saxony in Berlin and offered guests “Kilmer mares with ham, fair bratwurst and freshly tapped meat”, as did the Stoppelmarkt in Berlin to advertise. Bakers from the Oldenburger Münsterland registered the “Original Kilmerstuten Oldenburger Münsterland” as a registered trademark in January 2011 .
Clubs, friends or work colleagues of the parents bring a traditional Kilmer mare (5–7 kg) into the parents' home in honor of the child within one year of birth . It is customary to write the name of the newborn in marzipan letters on the mares.
In some regions (e.g. Emsland , Grafschaft Bentheim or the Osnabrücker Land ) the length of the mare depends on the number of children: one meter for the first child, two meters for the second child, etc. In these regions the Kilmer mares are also called Weggen called.
The mare is then placed on a wooden ladder and carried by four people. The group roams the neighborhood of the child's parents and rings every doorbell to serenade them. It is often about modified and with the child's name added variants of well-known hit songs or catchy melodies, for example from Christmas carols. Various local spirits are distributed by the neighbors to the singing people. One variant is that the Kilmer mare bearers meet in a restaurant before visiting their parents or agree on a running route where there are several restaurants where they stop. Often the child parents take on the bill.
The dress code traditionally consists of black trousers and white shirts with a cylinder or felt hat (men), or black trousers and white blouses (women). Depending on the gender of the child, scarves in red for girls or blue for boys are required in the dress code. Another basic equipment is a shot glass that is worn around the neck.
Together with the mares, various ingredients for the preparation of the bread are hung on the ladder (e.g. butter, cheese, sausage, coffee, tea) in order to end the evening with the children's parents after the move through the neighborhood.
Hiking through the neighborhood with the Kilmer mares is called kilmern or kilbern.
Origin of Words and Tradition
Kilmer mares
The word part "Kilmer" or "Kilber" is derived from the word "Kindelbier". This was the name given to the beer , " with which the fathers and neighbors are entertained after a child's baptism, and in a wider sense the whole festive feast held on this occasion ". In the Osnabrück area in particular, the word “Kindelbier” was ground down to “Kilmer”.
The original purpose of handing over a Kilmer mare is said to have been to support the young family with food after the at least temporary "loss" of the mother in childbed . The custom of the “midwife soup” in Hessian is supposed to fulfill a similar function . This assumption is supported by the fact that in intact village communities, neighbors, relatives and friends traditionally give young parents a hand; the handing over of the bread should therefore illustrate the will for community help.
The reason that you had to help a woman who had recently given birth seems strange in view of the fact that a child's mother today usually celebrates the handover of the Kilmer mare as a fully resilient host. It should be noted, however, that there used to be a justified fear that the child might die early. For this reason, babies were usually baptized no later than a week after birth. At this point in time, the mothers were actually still in childbirth who needed help. Medical progress made it justifiable to move the time of baptism so that it did not cause excessive stress for the child mother. This changed her role in the Kilmer Mare ritual. Incidentally, the derivation of the word “Kilmerstuten” from the term “Kinnelbeer” suggests that village communities, regardless of the state of health of the child's mother, wanted to be able to drink something.
Croam mares
"Kroam" means "birth" in the Münsterland region of Platt , and "to come in Kroam" means "beginning of labor".
Individual evidence
- ^ Christoph Floren: "Trademark" Stoppelmarkt. Image advertising: Celebrate like on the "Westerheide" - Vechtaers meet Berliners . Nordwest-Zeitung , June 19, 2008.
- ↑ Verbund Oldenburger Münsterland: Original Kilmerstuten Oldenburger Münsterland ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. January 27, 2011.
- ↑ Adelung: Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect . 1795-1802. Volume 2. p. 1575.
- ↑ Franz-Josef Schulenkorff: "Kroamstuten" -Bringen: Living Tradition Münsterland newspaper , August 17, 2010.
