Goggles
The timpani is part of the protective equipment of the timpani during the mensur , academic fencing with sharp weapons. It protects the eyes of the timpani and prevents fatal scale accidents. The glasses are made of steel, which is pressed onto the skin with a rubber seal and attached to the back of the head with a leather strap with a buckle . Two short sight tubes with protective grids allow the timpani to see.
After two Heidelberg Swabians lost an eye on Mensur in 1857 , the Heidelberg timpani doctor Friedrich Immisch had glasses made from leather and sheet metal as eye protection. As it proved itself, it soon became known at other universities, so that the Kösener SC Association recommended it and later introduced it in general.
After the Second World War, the eyeglasses at most university locations in German-speaking countries were expanded to include a nose plate that protects the nose (except in Switzerland , Graz and Vienna ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Academic monthly books I, p. 350.
