Dome fur
The dome fur , formerly in Low German also Koppelfurz , is only preserved today as a saying. Originally it referred to a fur that the mediator of a marriage, the matchmaker, had earned as a reward.
If a statement is made about someone that he has earned or received a dome fur, it means that he has tried to establish a marriage, although the statement usually has a somewhat joking undertone.
The statements of the chroniclers, how literally the original reward of the matchmaker with a fur should be taken, differ somewhat. Rudolf Hildebrand says in the German dictionary , "This fur was the usual purchase price for the handing over of the mouthpiece via the woman to the husband", an interpretation that the Duden also adopted. Here the dome fur would be a direct sale, a purchase price to the bride's parents, which does not do justice to the name dome fur (coupling, coupling = mediating, actually the deliberate mediation and promotion of so-called fornication ). Incidentally, this declaration states that at that time the husband still had the say, the guardianship of the daughter passed to the spouse with the marriage, as mouthpiece of the wife.
Baumgarten reports from Upper Austria : “A third person, who belongs neither to the groom's family nor to the bride's family, who, under some pretext, goes to the parents of the girl they want to woo and gradually steers the conversation towards the mediation of the marriage. This person once received, as it is still known in the vernacular, if he succeeded in bringing about the marriage 'z'sammz'haben', as a reward for this [from the bride] a nine-sleeved fur, which was called dome fur, while one when he was turned away, said: He got the pants. " The question that arises is what nine-sleeved fur looks like and why it has to have nine sleeves.
In another report from Upper Austria, the dome fur has only symbolic meaning: “If the groom is rich, the ' wedding loader ' rides his best horse, whose tail and manes are braided with flowers and ribbons. In Traungau , Chiemgau and Berchtesgadenerland he is called the 'Prokurator'; his reward for the effort put in after the wedding celebration is carried out is the uncomfortable name of 'dome fur' ”.
The explanation of the dome fur in a fur magazine published in 1951 seems particularly clear, but also somewhat strange: According to German law, the serfs had to pay their masters an animal skin, mostly a delicate lambskin , “for permission to marry their masters from ancient times . The term »dome fur« still reminds us of this obligation.
Friedrich August Schröter already uses the expression 1800 in a figurative, general sense, he translates the marriage gift “proxeneticum munus” from Latin as “dome fur”.
Often there are explanations that see the fur only as a part sought by the broker that she could buy with her wages. This statement about the illegal mediation of a partnership without the intention of marriage is more closely related to the actual meaning of the coupling: “The wage of the matchmaker could be very high - it always consisted of a portion of the love wage. With that the fur, which was very popular at the time, usually a sable , could be purchased ”.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ www.verhaben.uni-trier.de: Dome fur (vol. 11, col. 2778) . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ↑ lexika.digitale-sammlungen.de: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Adelung - Grammatical-critical dictionary of the High German dialect : Der Kuppelpelz . (1843-1844) . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ↑ idiome.deacademic.com: dome fur . Retrieved December 15, 2015.
- ↑ www.duden.de: Dome fur . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ↑ www.degruyter.com: Bluhme: The mouth shaft according to Longobard law . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ↑ P. Amand Baumgarten: From the folk tradition of the homeland . In: Twenty-eighth report on the Francisco Carolinum Museum . Linz 1869, p. 43. online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at
- ↑ www.zeno.org: Dome fur . Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ↑ www.hochzeit.org: Hochzeitbuch-Hochzeitsbraeuche Retrieved December 15, 2014.
- ↑ Without mentioning the author: Did you know? . In: Rund um den Pelz issue 9, September 1951, Fulde-Verlag Cologne, p. 51.
- ↑ Friedrich August Schröter: Terminology dictionary for explaining the foreign words and idioms frequently occurring in speeches and writings in alphabetical order: M to Z , Volume 2, p. 314 (Google eBook).
- ↑ www.lechzen.de: dome fur . Retrieved December 15, 2014.