Prague Plempe
The Prager Plempe was a student fencing weapon that was only used for a short period of time in the second half of the 19th century to carry out scales among German-speaking students in Prague . It can best be compared to a bell striker without a bridge.
The word plempe has been used to describe a saber in German since the 18th century . Today it is used colloquially ( corporate student table ) for the basketball racket .
description
As a special feature of Prague, this weapon consisted of a bat blade and a "French" saber basket. The Austrian shell saber was known as the French saber in Austria in the second half of the 19th century . Comparative studies have shown that the club blade was drawn into the baskets of Austrian cavalry sabers model M 1850 and probably from 1869 into model M 1861. This combination was created by the French fencing master Le Gros, who taught in Prague in the early 1860s . He refused to teach academic racket fencing, so the German style was copied to the best of our knowledge based on the French saber fencing that Le Gros continued to teach. The usual saber basket was used for this and a straight club blade was inserted. The development was supported by close relationships between some corporations and corporations fighting bell-rattles, which almost led to the introduction of the bell-ringer as the Prague Comment weapon. In any case, the relatively open vessel used there was similar to the saber vessel and allowed the fencing style to be transferred and the same bandages to be used. This also led to the fact that in some cases half of each length was fought with a bell striker and the other half with a plempe. The end of the plempe came when the fencing master Hergsell moved to Prague, who also taught basketball there, as well as the compulsion to use basketball as a uniform old Austrian comment weapon due to regional associations.
The first historically documented scale on "Prager Plempe" was fought on June 6, 1861 between the students Troeger (Burschenschaft Albia) and Liberda (Burschenschaft Carolina). Just a few years later, the Prague Corps abolished the plempe and introduced the basket bat in 1877 with a game between Neuwirth ( Corps Austria ) and Eckstein (Corps Moldavia). The Prague fraternities did so in 1880.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harmann, Die Prager Plempe , chap. B.2. (the book has no page numbers, so it is quoted according to chapters)
- ↑ Bernd-G. Harmann: The Prague Plempe. Inventory and attempt at a reconstruction (= work to obtain the degree of fencing master VdF), Hamburg (private print) 1995, chap. C., esp. C.5.a.)
- ↑ This part has even entered world literature through a report by the “mad reporter” Egon Erwin Kisch about “Old Prague Mensurlokale” (cf. EE Kisch, Aus Prager Gassen und Nights, Berlin, Weimar, 5th ed. 1992, p 172, 397)
- ↑ von Portheim ( Teutonia ) with Gerson (Hilaria; from June 1880 " Alemannia "); Egon Erwin Kisch: Collected Works in Individual Editions: Vol. 1 From Prager Gassen and Nights. Prague children. The adventures in Prague. Aufbau Verlag 1968, p. 188; "Einst und Jetzt" Vol. 21-23, 1976, p. 107
literature
- Bernd-G. Harmann: The Prague Plempe. Inventory and attempt at a reconstruction (= work to obtain the degree of fencing master VdF ), Hamburg (private print) 1995
- Peter Reeh: Scale on Prague Plempe around 1877. On the history and reconstruction of a lost oil painting . In: then and now. 2005 yearbook of the Society for Corps Student History Research. 50, 2005, ISSN 0420-8870 , pp. 153-159.
