Münster beer war

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The Münster Beer War was a protest by tavern visitors against moving the curfew in Münster at the end of the 19th century.

In 1895 the Prussian-Protestant regulatory authorities tried to enforce the threatened closure of the inns at 11 p.m. since 1885. This was seen by the Münster population as an interference with their individual freedom.

Notwithstanding threatened fines and imprisonment, the inn visitors gathered in the first seven nights in October after 23 am at the Münster's Prinzipalmarkt drank beer and sang songs. Numerous revelers ended up in the so-called "Höffken", a detention cell behind the town hall . After seven nights, the mayor Karl Windthorst gave in and the new curfew was no longer enforced.

literature

  • Rainer Pöppinghege: The Münster “beer war” of 1895. Social protest, cultural milieu conflict and resistance against modernity. In: Westfälische Zeitschrift No. 154/2004. Pp. 121-134.
  • Karl Heinz Bruges: Beer War in Münster , Herten 2005, 60 pp.
  • Christine Schedensack: The " Beer Revolution " In: Protest and Resistance , sideline: 1200 years of Münster. Münster in the course of time., Waanders, Zwolle 2000, p. 239