Ober-Mörler Fassenacht

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The Ober-Mörler Fassenacht is a nationally known "Fassenacht" celebrated in Ober-Mörlen . It is organized by the two carnival clubs 1. Ober-Mörler Karnevals Gesellschaft Mörlau e. V. (KG) from 1948 and Mörlauer Carneval Club e. V. (MCC) from 1956 with around 550 (KG) and around 800 (MCC) members each.

history

This custom is based on the "Lustige Schlittenfahrt", which is guaranteed by a painting from 1753 in the knight's hall of the Ober-Mörler renaissance castle, which serves as the town hall. It shows masked and costumed fools who ride in decorated horse-drawn sleighs through the snow-covered landscape. The "Klein Mainz im Usatal" has maintained this custom over the years and around 20% of Ober-Mörler's citizens are organized in one of the carnival clubs.

Since the foundation of the KG, the Mohr - borrowed from the old court seal - has been a symbol of the 1. KG Mörlau. He was shown for the first time in the carnival procession in 1959. In 2010, two Moors appeared for the first time in the Ober-Mörler Fassenacht: The Mohr of the KG and the Mohr of Mörlau. Each of the two carnival clubs has its own hall events: gala or costume sessions, children's sessions, women's session (KG), men's session (KG), ball of a thousand masks (MCC). The street carnival opens on Shrove Tuesday with the storming of the town hall (MCC). The carnival ends with the address of the KG president at the Mardi Gras sculpture "The Ship of Fools" designed by the artist Klaus F. Roth on the corner of Usingerstrasse and Frankfurter Strasse and the sinking of the carnival by the MCC at the Usabrücke. On Ash Wednesday, the prince couple returns the community key given to the fools on Shrove Tuesday to the mayor.

procedure

The Mardi Gras parade through the decorated village, which has been limited to 111 train numbers for years and organized by the KG as the organizer, takes place on Shrovetide Sunday. The tradition of the street carnival is significantly older than the carnival clubs and was celebrated without an organization until before the Second World War. In addition to the two carnival clubs, many of the Ober-Mörler local clubs and a large number of friendly carnival clubs take part in the procession. This is the largest train in the Wetterau on this day and one of the largest carnival trains in Hesse. Every year between 20,000 and 35,000 visitors flock to the town to experience the dance guards, the motif and committee wagons, as well as the minstrels' and fanfare parades. In 2007 the record was reached with around 50,000 visitors. Special groups of the street carnival are:

  • The Dippeklopper , a female drum group that enriches the foolish goings-on from Thursday to Violet Tuesday , was created in 2006/07.
  • The Winter Stone Spirits, wooden masks by the carver Albert Recht carved in the style of the Alemannic Fassenacht, were created in 2004.
  • The witches with ratchets, brooms and scissors (up to 2.5 m long "frightening tools") were created in 1986.
  • Die Lappefresser , (common name of the Ober-Mörler; in suits sewn with different colored rags), originated in 1973.
  • The dominos in different colors (face masks and long, single-colored hooded coats), origin unknown.

The battle cry of the Ober-Mörler carnivalists is the "Mörlau" which is a modification of the Mainz Helau and thus represents the symbiosis of the colloquial name of the place - Mörle.

However, there is a difference between the two carnival associations regarding the tripled battle cry: While the 1. KG Mörlau greets with “Mörlau, Mörlau, Mörlau!”, The MCC says “Mirle-Mörlau, Mirle-Mörlau, Mirle-Mörlau! “Resound. The term “Mörlau” was registered as a trademark in 2010 by the KG at the German Patent and Trademark Office.

The Mörlau carnival colors

The Ober-Mörler Carnival has its own flag. It is basically based on the flag of the Mainz Carnival. There it was originally created as a political cartoon. In Mainz, which was often occupied by French, the carnival colors were derived from the French tricolor. In order to disguise the mockery of the occupying power, the French colors were rotated as follows: red-white-blue (tricolor: blue-white-red) and the golden yellow of the Catholic church flag added. Catholics made up the majority of the population at the time of its creation. On the way through the predominantly Catholic communities to Ober-Mörlen, which was also predominantly Catholic at that time, the blue was often lost and replaced by the color green; apparently to symbolize the end of winter. In Ober-Mörlen, however, the color green was added to the flag of Mainz. So the flag of both Ober-Mörler cooperations now traditionally consists of five colors. These symbolize the five seasons.

The Mörlau prince couple

In 1948 there was initially a prince carnival , from 1948 a prince couple. The enthronement takes place every year at the opening event on November 11th. Traditionally, the outgoing prince symbolically passes on the prince's cap and the scepter created in 1952/53. The departing princess crowns the new princess together with the departing and the new lady-in-waiting with the silver crown, also created in 1952/53. The ruling couple is accompanied by a lady-in-waiting and court marshal. In the campaigns from 2003/04 to 2008/09, Mohr von Mörlau accompanied the Ober-Mörler prince couple to all appearances. The 2007/08 campaigns with only one princess and the 2010/11 campaigns with three princes made breaks in the history of the prince couples.

The rag-eaters

This is a slang term for the inhabitants of the municipality of Ober-Mörlen. The origin dates from a time when the edges of the communities in the Upper Hesse region were called Lappen . By moving the boundary stones, the inhabitants of the municipality of Ober-Mörlen "ate" the lobes, mainly those of the municipality of Nieder-Mörlen, whereupon they often had to go to the responsible court in what was then Nauheim (now Bad Nauheim) and follow this path "Blue feet" brought what earned them the name Bloo Fois .

The graphic artist Klaus F. Roth, who lives in Ober-Mörlen, took on this local history in the 1970s and created the Ober-Mörler Fassenachtsgruppe the Lappefresser . This group continues to delight the crazy audience with their multicolored costumes and hats sewn with felt rags.

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