Schönberger Easter flatbread

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For centuries, until the Second World War, Schönberger Easter flatbreads were delivered to a fixed number of recipients in the Ratzeburg region and the Hanseatic city of Lübeck .

history

Schönberg (Mecklenburg) had been the residence of the bishops of Ratzeburg since the beginning of the 14th century . The Bishop of Ratzeburg had Easter patties delivered to certain people in his bishopric and in Lübeck on Easter . The original religious custom was transformed over time into a kind of natural history -Abgabe. The Bishopric of Ratzeburg came after the Thirty Years' War as a Principality of Ratzeburg to Mecklenburg and was from 1701 to the Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . The custom was taken over as a burden on the territory as a state obligation by Mecklenburg-Strelitz .

The tenant of the bishop's table goods on Selmsdorfer Strasse, which became the building yard domain , had to deliver and grind 550 pounds of wheat free of charge . Even the miller in Schönberg was not paid, but received one of the Easter patties. These were baked in a bakery in Schönberg, most recently by the master baker Retelsdorf in today's August-Bebel-Straße. He received baking money for this and a small cut beech tree from the building yard to fire the oven .

The leaseholder of the building yard was responsible for sending the flatbreads. The Landreiter , who was in charge of the delivery from Maundy Thursday , received a tip as well as half a bottle of wine from the recipients . in Lübeck, where he arrived on Easter Sunday , breakfast in the Ratskeller .

During the First World War , the delivery was replaced by a cash gift due to a lack of flour, but then resumed. After the outbreak of the Second World War , the delivery was again replaced by a cash payment in 1940. Due to the land reform in 1945, as a result of which the former domain building yard was relocated in November 1945 with 43 new farmers , and the social changes in the Soviet occupation zone and the GDR , the custom lost its basis. In contrast to the custom of the Martensmann in the opposite direction, which is based on similar historical circumstances , it was not resumed after the fall of the Wall in 1989.

Similar deliveries of Easter cakes to councilors from Lübeck were also made from Gadebusch and Rehna . However, these did not last that long and are to be seen as a return for the permission to the bakers in Gadebusch and Rehna to sell bread and pastries ( palm cakes ) in Lübeck to Palmarum .

receiver

According to a directory from 1755, 25 people received Easter patties of different sizes and weights. These included:

literature

  • Fritz Buddin : The Easter flatbread delivery in Schönberg. In: Mecklenburg: Journal of the Heimatbund Mecklenburg. 12 (1917), pp. 14-20
  • Heidemarie Frimodig: From Easter eggs and Easter flatbreads . In: Schönberg in the Ratzeburger Land: a reading book. BoD 2003 ISBN 9783831149285 , pp. 58-61
  • Georg Joachim Mark : D. Georg Joachim Mark's story of the Martini evening and Martins-Mann , Buchenröder and Ritter, Güstrow and Hamburg 1772, pp. 73–75 ( digitized )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lübeck homeland book. Lübeck: Schmidt-Römhild 1926, p. 127
  2. ↑ Georg Joachim Mark: Story of the Martini evening and Martins man. Hamburg and Güstrow: Buchenröder and Ritter 1772, p. 74 f with reference to Ernst Joachim Westphal : Monumenta inedita rerum Germanicarum praecipue Cimbricarum et Megapolensium. Volume 4, p. 2