Cake singing

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The cake singing is a particularly in the Erzgebirge , Vogtland and in the Lausitz widespread custom of the Christmas season . In other regions, cake singing also takes place on other occasions, such as at the fair , the Gregorius Festival or New Year's Eve .

history

The tradition of Christmas cake singing goes back to a time when stollen , cakes and Christmas cookies were baked at the local bakery due to the lack of a suitable home oven. In addition to the stollen, the Ardepplkuchn (potato cake) was traditionally made from the same dough in the Ore Mountains . Mainly the children then went from house to house and offered Christmas carols and received a piece or a plate of cake as thanks.

Later, adults also went through the villages, so that there were regulations in some Ore Mountains villages as to who was allowed to sing over the cake. As early as 1846, ordinances of the Kingdom of Saxony dealt with the question of whether cake singing should be viewed as begging . The cake singing is one of the Heischebräuchen allowed a domestic law, children and even adults in some areas, for presenting Sing pieces kind to collect.

In many cases, however, only children and miners were allowed to sing around the coveted cake during the Christmas season. As a rule, three cakes of different quality were baked in the families. The white or reene cake was made with the most precious ingredients such as clarified butter and wheat flour and was intended for the family. The half-thick cake made of wheat and rye flour was given to the servants and the cake singers, while the black cake made of rye flour was baked for the beggars .

In the GDR , the tradition of cake singing was revived in publicly funded events as a meeting of regional dialect artists from 1966. In the present, traditional cake singing in the Ore Mountains and Vogtland is once again part of the lived tradition in Advent and Christmas.

literature

  • Erhardt Heinold, Alix Paulsen: Erzgebirgisches Customs-ABC , Husum-Verlag, Husum 2003, ISBN 3-89876-061-8
  • Manfred Blechschmidt : Protected eich fei dos light , Hofmeister 1976, Leipzig
  • Ernst H. H. John: Superstition, Customs and Customs in the Saxon Ore Mountains , Graser 1909, Annaberg

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Libra - Dwarfs . In: Eduard Hoffmann-Krayer, Hanns Bächtold-Stäubli (ed.): Concise dictionary of German superstition . tape 9 . De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2011, ISBN 978-3-11-006597-8 , pp. 284 .
  2. ↑ Gottlob Leberecht Funke: The police laws and ordinances of the Kingdom of Saxony, with the epitome of organic and formal provisions . Hahn, Leipzig 1847, p. 320 .
  3. ↑ Gotthard B. Schicker: Cultural history of gastronomy in the Saxon and Bohemian Ore Mountains . In: Objective - 3 - Project: Experience the Ore Mountains / Krušnohoří culinary . Annaberg-Buchholz 2013, p. 58 .
  4. ^ Johann Gottfried Herder Institute (Ed.): German as a foreign language . tape 12/13 , 1975, pp. 405 .