Oelder Wind
The Oelder Wind is a poem by Ernst Meurin (1885 – after 1965) about an incident in the city of Oelde that made it into the US press.
Incident
A coppersmith is on his way home from a beer feast at night. On the way he behaves as if he were alone in the far hall. Heard a guardian of the law patrolling nearby. When the official reprimands this disrespect, the cheeky coppersmith does not return remorsefully to himself, but even more out of himself, with an intensified tone of voice.
The next morning the local police sent the following order to his house: “You have committed gross nonsense by letting you go on the night of March 29th to 30th. J. have deliberately annoyed passers-by with flatulence on a public street. You will therefore be sentenced to 5 MK. The Oelder local newspaper Glocke is malicious enough to publish the wording of the injunction and it adds the remark that the coppersmith apologizes with - "negligence". Within a few weeks, the day has become a celebrity gets negligent coppersmith from all over Germany hundreds of postcards, mostly from Stammtisch companies that deal with the infamous substance in poetry and prose. The news went from the German newspapers to the press in all countries and continents. And everyone laughs.
What the Oelder coppersmith had done was nothing new to anyone in the world, but it had not been punished by the police since the creation of the first man. The New York Herald , which receives the “bomb message” via cable telegram, dedicates an editorial to the fate of the Oelder coppersmith with the headline: “What happened in Germany?”. All of this and the blasphemy tongues of his fellow citizens affect the mind of the “negligent”, who has appealed against the sentence, to such an extent that on the day before the eagerly awaited court hearing, he fled Oelde and is no longer seen.
The story of the negligent coppersmith is preserved in an original way. Because this fart becomes means of payment . The city of Oelde put banknotes into circulation on which this local historical process from 1908 has been immortalized. On the front of the six-color Oelder city banknotes you can see the farting coppersmith, pursued by the sniffing guardians of the Oelder law.
Others
In 1983 the sculptor Leo Neumann created the bronze group "The negligent coppersmith" for the Oelder Council passage.