Regensburg Dult
While there were two annual markets (Dulten) in Regensburg and Stadtamhof up to the end of the 19th century , today there is only one Regensburg Dult as a folk festival on the Europakanal in Regensburg's Stadtamhof district. The Dult takes place twice a year in May and September.
history
Fairs and dulten emerged in the early Middle Ages when the need to exchange goods became great. The times when they took place in Regensburg were based on the pilgrimages to the graves of the municipal saints Sankt Erhard and Sankt Emmeram and the church feasts.
Dult in Regensburg
Around 1800 the holding of the annual markets in Regensburg was changed somewhat. Two dates were retained in autumn and spring, which corresponded to the dates of the masses in the Middle Ages. The booths that were set up reached the impressive number of 148 in 1808. These fairs were attended by merchants and manufacturers from the immediate vicinity, but also from Switzerland, Bohemia , Nuremberg , Munich and Augsburg . Even a wooden watchmaker from the Black Forest offered his goods here. These two Regensburg dulten continued for a long time in the 19th century, namely on White Sunday and on the Saturday before Michaelmas (September 29th). The times therefore coincide exactly with those of the spring and autumn fairs in medieval Regensburg. Mainly they were now held on Neupfarrplatz , further along the Residenzstrasse, on the Domplatz and the Krauterermarkt. The city itself provided the stands. The play booths and carousels on the Kornmarkt provided entertainment for the guests and children .
Why these two fairs were suddenly canceled can only be deduced from the files. In 1871, the then first Regensburg mayor, Oscar von Stobäus, described the Dulten in a motion as "long out of date and nowadays an at least superfluous facility, especially in the larger cities". He, the new mayor, was obviously more modern than his time, because it still took several efforts until the city magistrate and municipal representatives decided in 1875 to repeal the Dulten. Decisive for the decision of the Regensburg city fathers was that the city itself could not make any profits from the Dulten.
Dult in Stadtamhof
The Dult in Stadtamhof also has a longer history than previously assumed. In 1389 Stadtamhof received a privilege from the Bavarian duke for a weekly market and two annual markets. This was obviously intended to help the place after the destruction of the city war.
After the two Regensburg annual fairs were abolished, the Dult in Stadtamhof enjoyed a much stronger boom. The area around its visitors from Velburg to Roding or Straubing makes this clear. Not only was the area at Protzenweiher used as a Dultplatz, but the main street from Stadtamhof was also included in the fair. As older visitors can still remember, the stands of the dealers were also set up there.
The fact that the then City Council of Regensburg attached special importance to this great festival can be seen from the fact that very soon after the incorporation of Stadtamhof in 1924 , it issued a new Dultordnung . In 1972, due to the construction of the canal, Dult moved to the current event site.
Reception of the Dult in Biedermeier
From the Biedermeier period we have a description of the Dult by Eduard Mörike , who stayed at Pürkelgut Castle from September until the fourth Advent in 1850 , where his brother Louis was the administrator. One of the numerous explorations of life in Regensburg is the description of a visit to Dult in a letter to his bride Margarethe Speeth on October 15, 1850. In addition to peep boxes and brochures in front of which all sorts of small figures, people, etc. Animals, express wagons, steamers, etc. Gondolas move by more or less naturally, Mörike highlights a large panorama of the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig with Napoleon and his generals in the foreground. He describes in detail the course of the “strange things” and their effect on his nephew, little Eduard: During the performances, people sat in the dark, some lamps appeared in the interim files; we had our seats in front, directly behind the musicians, outside the wind was so strong that the theater curtain sometimes billowed out against us and shook the bell. The end was made by a splendid piece of the bombardment of Antwerp, with grenades and the like with bombs. The rockets were so noisy that little Ed. one after another said: shouldn't one be afraid? isn't it over soon? - On leaving we all smelled of powder and the like. Sulfur . In its September and October editions of 1850, the “Regensburger Tagblatt” emphasized an anatomical cabinet with natural and wax preparations as an attraction in addition to the panorama , and a theater pittoresque or world theater (...), performances in 3 sections: 1 Section View of Venice. 2. Interlaken (Swiss landscape). 3. The unveiling of the Bavaria. 4. A mechanical ballet and metamorphoses. 5th Moscow fire .
Former Valhalla Railway
The Regensburg Dultplatz was a stop on the narrow-gauge Walhalla Railway between Regensburg and Wörth on the Danube until 1933 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Karl Bauer : Regensburg art, culture and everyday history . MZ Buchverlag, Regensburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-86646-300-4 . P. 817.
- ^ Sigfrid Färber: Regensburg, then, yesterday and today. The image of the city over the last 125 years . JF Steinkopf Verlag, Stuttgart 1984, ISBN 3-7984-0588-3 , p. 100, 101 .
- ^ A b Eduard Mörike: Works and Letters . Volume fifteen, letters 1846-1850 . Edited by Albrecht Bergold and Bernhard Zeller . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-608-33150-6 , pp. 341-343.
- ^ Eduard Mörike: Works and Letters . Volume fifteen, letters 1846-1850 . Edited by Albrecht Bergold and Bernhard Zeller. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2000. ISBN 3-608-33150-6 , explanations, p. 846.