Rag ball

This article deals with the evening event rag ball, for the film of the same name see rag ball (film) .

Poster for the rag ball in Schwender's Colosseum on February 19, 1892

A rag ball is a traditional evening event during Carnival time .

A special feature of a rag ball is that the visitors appear dressed up like a costume ball , but the costumes are mostly tattered, worn clothes (colloquially rags, rags ). In the Rhein-Neckar-Dreieck ( Electoral Palatinate ) Lumpeball is often written without an "n".

The rag ball was an idea of ​​Karl Schwender, the owner of the Colosseum on Braunhirschengrund in what is now the 15th Viennese district of Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus . It was held for the first time in 1872, but by order of the police under the far more civil title "Ball in worn clothes". Lumpen is also the plural of the dirty word Lump . Since the entertainment venue was quite remote, the owner organized a shuttle service with carriages and omnibuses. For the rag ball, many onlookers gathered at the stops to see the costumes.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Petra Unger: Women in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus - Documentation Tours March 2009, Vienna 2009 (PDF; 2.2 MB) ( Memento from December 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
2. ↑ Gschnasfest , www.austria-lexikon.at , Version: March 12, 2010.