Mainz Prinzengarde
The Mainzer Prinzengarde with its founding in 1884, one of the older Carnival Corporation in Mainz Carnival . It has set itself the task of accompanying the Prince Carneval in the Rose Monday procession and was founded as a representative guard for the parades and street carnival.
history
After a prince's guard under the leadership of General Reitmayer had already participated in the foolish activities in the Aurea Moguntia in the 1861/1862 campaign, there were no more demonstrable activities until the 1883/1884 campaign. Beginning in 1884, the Mainz Carnival experienced a new boom, which was mainly triggered by the construction of the new town hall , which at that time was the largest festival hall in Germany. The Mainz artist Clemens Kissel designed the first two uniforms for the Guard in 1883 and 1888. Jean Ring was elected the commanding general, Jean Dremmel acted as president and Josef Wallau held the office of foolish war minister.
The task of providing a dignified escort troop for a couple of princes occurs only irregularly in Mainz, as there is only a couple of princes on special anniversaries during the Mainz Carnival. That is why the Prinzengarde has the important task of swearing in the foolish recruits on Mardi Gras Saturday during the dramaturgy of the high festivities of the Mainz Carnival. The Guard has been performing this task annually since 1884.
Since due to economic challenges always a befitting not Rosenmontagszug by the Mainz Carnival Association was organized, was organized with other corporations such as the Mainzer Ranzengarde and the products resulting from such Birnbaum club Mainzer Carneval Club large cap rides and Guard camp at selected locations.
Until the Second World War , the guard held the popular “Meenzer Martini-Curb” on November 11th. in the town hall. In the 1925/1926 campaign, the Prinzengarde's first big Mardi Gras Saturday ball took place in the town hall. This ball is still one of the traditional balls in the state capital today.
From 1928 on, Diether Hummel headed the Prinzengarde. For a period of 60 years he was President of the Mainz Prinzengarde, its session president, Field Marshal General and Oberstadtmarschall of the City of Mainz . There were women in leadership positions for the first time in the 1936/1937 campaign with Hildegard Kühne as commander . In 1938 she became the first female carnival princess in Mainz, after the role of the prince couple had previously only been filled by male candidates. In the same year Irmgard von Opel succeeded her in the office of commander.
structure
Foot corps
The members of the foot corps walk during the carnival parades. The teams and NCOs can be recognized by their blue and yellow grenadier caps. The officers wear a black three-cornered hat that, together with a wig and plait, covers the head.
Sappers and Profos
Long-standing, tall members represent profos and sappers . These prominent functions are only available in a few guards and march appropriately at the head of the foot corps.
Drummer Corps
Surrounded by a drum major quoted corps with two-coat-drums is a distinguishing feature of Prinzengarde and therefore was issued as the first fastnachtliche bronze sculpture on Schillerplatz. The tubular drums, the body of which is tubular and higher than the diameter of their membrane, are only played by a few drummers due to their weight.
Equestrian Corps
The riding corps consists of the members, some of whom have enjoyed riding training especially for this occasion and who take part in the Rose Monday procession as a mounted unit.
Music corps
In the final phase of the history of the Mainz Fortress , the Prinzengarde, like the other guards, could fall back on the chapels of the Hessian-Darmstadt and Hesse-Nassau regiments or another part of the troops that happened to be stationed in Mainz. Mostly the chapels of the 1st Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 87 and the 2nd Nassau Infantry Regiment No. 88 , the 3rd Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment No. 117 "Grand Duchess" and 4th Grand Ducal Hessian Infantry Regiment "Prince Carl ”No. 118 and the Nassau Field Artillery Regiment No. 27 . When these military bands were no longer available after the World War, in 1953, due to the good contacts in Hochheim am Main, the minstrels and fanfares of the sparkling wine town were used. Since 1979, the "Fanfare, Minstrel and Music Train" of the Osthofen gymnastics community has been added as a further corps. In 1961, the Großostheim rider fanfare parade, the oldest still existing of its kind in Germany, was added as a unique selling point in the Mainz train .
Web links
literature
- Friedrich Schütz : The modern Mainz Carnival. in: Franz Dumont (ed.), Ferdinand Scherf , Friedrich Schütz: Mainz - The history of the city. Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1998 (first edition), ISBN 3-805-32000-0
Individual evidence
- ↑ The History of the Guard ( Memento of March 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Who was the first real Carnival Princess tour in the Mainz Carnival Museum