Passing game (historical)
Passing game or Jeu de Passe is a historical precision game for several people in which balls made of ivory were knocked into holes with a spoon-like stick and had to "pass" markings. The invention is attributed to Elector Max Emanuel . Perhaps one can compare the 18th century passing game, inspired by the croquet-like Pall Mall , with today's mini golf . The rules of the game can be found in the description, written by Max Emanuel's court preacher Pierre de Bretagne, of the weeks-long wedding celebrations on the occasion of the marriage of the Bavarian Prince Elector Karl Albrecht to the imperial daughter Maria Amalie of Austria .
The passing game was not only played outdoors. In the north of the longitudinal wing adjoining the main Nymphenburg Palace , there was a separate hall for the passing game in the specially built pass building in the 18th century, the later (and still so called) Gardemeuble building.
There were outdoor pass playgrounds in the Nymphenburg Palace Park and, set up by Elector Clemens August I of Bavaria , the son of the alleged inventor, at Clemensruhe near Poppelsdorf near Bonn (copper engraving by Mettely after a drawing by JM Metz, around 1755).
Passing games were also held at other courts, for example at the Electoral Saxon Court of Friedrich August I around 1800 , where Johann Gottfried Hempel was the marqueer at the time .
Another game popular at the time of the courtly baroque was the mail game (Maille, Pall Mall).
swell
- Pierre de Bretagne: Detailed relation of the wonderful festivities and public testimonies of joy which were so well at court / in the city of Munich / as well as at the Chur princely hunting and pleasure castles because of the marriage of the Chur prince to Bayrn Durchl. Caroli Alberti was held with the most brilliant Ertz-Duchess Maria Amalia / and was seen / In addition to an accurate description of what was in the above-mentioned Chur-Fürstl. Hunting and pleasure castles to pass and notice remarkable things. (Daniel Walder, Augsburg 1723)
literature
- Norbert Hierl-Deronco: It is a pleasure to build. About builders, builders and building in the Baroque in Kurbayern-Franconia-Rhineland. Munich 2001. ISBN 3-929884-08-9