Long sausage

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Small long sausage in Königsberg
(Ostpreußenblatt 1961)

The long sausage was part of the traditional exhibition of the Königsberg guilds in the Duchy of Prussia . It took place at the beginning of each year.

history

On New Year's Day , the butchers moved with the shouldered sausage from their inn to the Königsberg Castle . There, the received Herzog , the upper councils and the court honored gift. Then the councilors and the three pastors from Altstadt (Königsberg) , Kneiphof and Löbenicht were given a taste test. The procession ended in the inn of the lot and fine bakers, with whom the (not small) rest was eaten.

The los bakers were not inferior to them. On Epiphany they brought their gift in return. In another splendid pageant , they carried large Striezel through the city. Up to 5 cubits long, they were decorated with gold-plated lion heads, crowns, stars and the guild coat of arms made of gingerbread dough. Six to eight Striezeln followed squiggles in equal numbers. After visiting the sovereign and the councilors, the closing ceremony was held in the butcher's inn. Up to 40 tons of beer were emptied.

In 1520 the Königsberg butchers carried a sausage of 41 cubits in procession through the city. In 1558 it was 403 cubits long. In 1601 it measured 1,005 cubits (about 670 m) and weighed 585 pounds. It was made from 81 pork hams and was dragged by 103 journeymen butchers.

The chemical factory Kalle had the historical pageant represented in tin figures . Served Konigsberg town houses as a background, including the Groebensche scholarships house in the Meat Market Street, later Corpshaus of Masovia .

In Kaliningrad , the tradition has been revived. At the international exhibition Agrokomplex 2007 a sausage of 390 m length was made according to an old recipe.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c F. Gause, 1961
  2. ^ R. Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Wurzburg 2002
  3. ↑ Losbäcker at enzyklo.de
  4. ↑ In Prussia one cubit was 66.68 cm
  5. ↑ Jurij Tschernyshev: Linking to German traditions. Königsberg revived the "Long Sausage Festival" - with lectures and jousting games . Ostpreußenblatt, No. 9, March 2, 2013

literature

  • Hermann Bink: The big sausage and the giant strietzel from Königsberg . 1958.
  • Fritz Gause : The giant sausage was much, much longer . Ostpreußenblatt , vol. 12, episode 20, May 20, 1961