Wednesday of Holy Week
The Holy Wednesday is the fourth day of the Holy Week and was formerly a Abgabentag . It is also known as "crooked" or "crooked Wednesday ". As early as the 4th century, Holy Wednesday in Jerusalem was brought together with the betrayal of Judas Iscariot ( Mt 26 : 14-25 EU ) and was therefore seen as an unlucky day.
This Wednesday has regionally more traditional names: So for Baden already in 1261 the name mitkun crumen and Westphalia already in 1386 the name crooked Gütentag or slate Gütentag and for the Duchy of Brunswick 1397/98 the name middeweken crooked occupied. In South Tyrol , Holy Wednesday is called Krump-Noon . There and in the Etschland you were not allowed to cut the vines that day because, according to tradition, Judas hanged himself from a vine. In southern Germany the name Platzmittwoch can be found , because on this day the potential Easter lambs could be bought on the market square. In Lower Austria one speaks of pumper Wednesday or rumble Wednesday , because the pumpermette or rumble wednesday , which was customary at the time, was noisy to express the outrage over the arrest of Jesus Christ . In the Netherlands one speaks of Skortel Woensdach ("shirt Wednesday") or Schorel Woensdach ("cleaning Wednesday") in relation to the last washing day before the holidays .
