Lämmermarkt (Hamburg)

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The Lämmermarkt was a Hamburg folk festival that was held annually on the Friday before Pentecost , the lamb's evening .

history

The evening of lambs was originally a festival for children. On that day, families moved to the Lämmermarkt, which was held on the site in front of the Steintor in the Hamburg suburb of St. Georg . There the parents bought their children live lambs or lambs made of wood to play with. Already in 1722 there was a report about a sale of lambs on the Friday before Pentecost in St. Jürgen (St. Georg):

“Friday before Pentecost have special. young people in St. Jürgen have a strange joy with the so-called Pentecostal lambs, which are sold there. "

- Johann Balthasar Hempel 1722

Over time, the event changed from a children's festival to a general folk festival. At the festivals around 1846, the lambs were sold on the two semicircular meadows in front of the stone gate. To the north of it, in front of the cemeteries located there, a fair was set up. On the south-facing site there were carousels , as well as various stalls and tents with tightrope walkers , sleight-of-hand players , drinks sales and other hospitality.

On the evening of lambs in 1848, popular protests against the Hamburg gate barrier reached a climax. There were riots and tumults on the Lämmermarkt, during which, among other things, the gate guard at the stone gate was attacked and fires were started. The incoming fire brigade was prevented from extinguishing. Only after disengagement of civil military unrest could be terminated.

Around 1874 the Lämmermarkt was relocated to a field at Lübecker Tor, as the Museum of Arts and Crafts was built on the previous event site in front of the Steintor . The folk festival was held on the square at Lübeck Gate until the First World War .

The evening of lambs has been the theme of poems and songs several times, for example in the poem from 1804 Buy a lamb, lovely one! or in the work of Johann Benjamin Michaelis Give me my little lamb, too .

literature

  • I. Smidt (Ed.): Hanseatisches Magazin . tape 2 . Friedrich Wilmans, Bremen 1799, p. 43-44 ( online ).
  • Johann Friedrich Schütze: Holsteinisches Idiotikon, a contribution to the history of folk customs . tape 3 . Heinrich Ludwig Villaume, Hamburg 1802, p. 7 ( online ).
  • ICW Wendt, CEL Kapellhoff: Hamburg's past and present . Wendt & Co, Hamburg 1896, Der Lämmermarkt, p. 226 ( online - with illustration).
  • Hans Roß: Folk festivals in old St. Georg . In: Leaves from St. Georg . Communications from the St. Georg Citizens' Association from 1880 RV Hamburg-St. Georg June 1951, p. 6 ( PDF online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Balthasar Hempel: Detailed information from the H. Ritter Georgio, and what bears the name of him, but in particular from the stifted St. Juergens near Hamburg . Kißner, Hamburg 1722, p. 291 ( online ).
  2. ↑ R. Dupf: Hamburg and Hamburg . In: Franz Klutschak (ed.): The panorama of the universe for amusing instruction for everyone and all countries . tape 13 . Gottlieb Haase, Prague 1846, p. 136 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Joh. Gottf. Zschaler: The eternally unforgettable year 1848 or a chronicle and a memorial book for every family and in memory of their descendants . CG Lohse, Dresden 1848, Der Thorsperrumult in Hamburg, p. 262-263 (on- line ).
  4. ^ Gustav Freytag, Julian Schmidt: The border messengers . 7th year. II. Semester. III. Tape. Friedrich Ludwig Herbig, Leipzig 1848, p. 254 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Axel von Saldern: The Museum of Art and Industry Hamburg, 1869-1988 . Museum of Arts and Crafts, Hamburg 1988, p. 18 ( excerpt online - = picture booklets volume 23).
  6. ^ Hamburg and Altona . A magazine about history, time and taste. tape 2 . Friedrich Hermann Nestler, Hamburg 1804, XV. Hamburg's beauties. Am Lämmerabend, p. 255 ( online ).
  7. ↑ All the poetic works of Mr. Johann Benjamin Michaelis . Franz Anton Schrämbl, Vienna 1791, p. 54 ( online - = collection of the most excellent works by German poets and prose writers, Volume XVII).