Lahrer limping messenger

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Lahrer Hinkender Bote is a people's calendar from the city of Lahr / Black Forest , Baden-Württemberg .

The content consists of the calendar , information on memorial days , planting and sowing dates, farming rules , pollen counts , the centenary calendar , country-specific articles and stories (some in Alemannic dialect ) as well as photos and drawings. A title theme holds the stories and information together, for 2012 the annual theme was “Celebrating!”, For 2013 “Weinland Baden” and for 2014 “Baden Museum Landscape”.

The calendar appeared for the first time in 1800 and bears the eponymous war disabled with a lower leg prosthesis on the title page. The current version comes from the graphic artist Philipp Jakob Kauffmann, who came to Lahr in 1818 and whose revised version was first published in 1825. A railroad was added as part of a revision in 1850. In addition, the steamship shown replaced a sailing ship. The artist left his family name on a tombstone in the lower left corner.

After he first came into contact with the publisher Johann Heinrich Geiger in 1858, the folk writer Albert Bürklin (1816–1890) was in charge of editing the calendar for almost twenty years.

The Lahrer Hinkende Bote was published until 2000 by Moritz Schauenburg , Lahr, from 2001 to 2010 by Ernst Kaufmann , Lahr, and the Silberburg-Verlag from Tübingen and Baden-Baden has been responsible since the 2011 issue . While in the Kaufmann era the name of the publisher was on the gravestone in the cover picture, it now reminds of the artist Kauffmann again.

Since the calendar for 2013, the Lahrer Hinkende Bote has been subtitled “The Baden Calendar”. The editorial concept concentrates the articles in the reading and picture sections on Baden topics, such as the presentation of well-known Baden residents, portraits of Baden locations, reports from Baden companies or the description of former Baden customs. In the calendar part, among other things, markets in Baden cities are announced, Baden anniversaries are listed and the sunrise and sunset times are based on Freiburg im Breisgau , instead of - as is usual in calendars - Kassel .

The first known copy is from 1804 and is in the Lahr city archive.

Naming

When the Lahrer Hinkender Bote was created , invalids often only had the opportunity to make a living as messengers or newspaper vendors. Around 1800 and earlier there were many publications with a similar name, on whose cover pictures u. a. a man with stilts and often with a uniform jacket was shown. The man often held a long staff in one hand as a support and a calendar or letter in the other. His uniform jacket identified him as a war invalid, while a letter or calendar indicated his work as a messenger. The calendar name is proven for the year 1640 with the "Hinckender Post-Botte and small, true Post-Reuter"; In 1587 there was already a newspaper with a name of this kind. The focus of the naming was on southwest Germany, Switzerland and Alsace. So there was the “Limping Bott” in Basel, from 1676 two competing papers. From 1677 there was the "Colmar Limping Messenger", from 1698 in Bern, and 1708 in Vevey on Lake Geneva. The Appenzeller was renamed in 1747, and Strasbourg was added in 1801. German emigrants took the calendar name with them to America.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Christel Seidensticker: The graphic artist Philipp Jakob Kauffmann . In: Lahrer limping messenger , 2012, p. 117 f.
  2. ^ Adolf Bartels : Albert Bürklin † . In: The Gazebo . Issue 21, 1890, pp. 674 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).