Scarlet race

Scarlet races are historic horse races in which the winner was given a piece of scarlet (a precious type of red cloth).

Nordlingen

The scarlet fever race in Nördlingen is an annual equestrian event that dates back to the late Middle Ages .

It was first archived in 1438 and took place annually at the Nördlinger Whitsun Mass , on the Monday after Corpus Christi . The venue for the flat horse races was the Nördlinger Reichswiese , which is now called Kaiserwiese ( ). The horses of wealthy citizens and princes took part in the horse races. The trophy was a scarlet scarf up to 28 meters long and worth 43 Rhenish guilders . The runner-up received a crossbow, the third a sword, and the last a live sow. At the same time, there were sports competitions and a folk festival, and at times also a race for the Nördlingen prostitutes.

An incident occurred in 1442 when the knight Anselm von Eyberg took visitors to the Scarlet Race hostage in order to extort ransom. As early as the 15th century, there was a specialist publication that contained detailed training and feeding instructions, called the art of running horses , and was written by the racing horse specialist Fritz Munich. The peasant wars ended the tradition of scarlet races.

Scarlet races were held again in Nördlingen only after the Second World War. The winner of the first scarlet fever race in 1948 was Hans Günter Winkler . In addition to the actual scarlet fever race, other equestrian tests were held. In the 1950s in particular, the tournament developed into a crowd puller, with 50,000 spectators in 1950. In the following years, however, the public interest fell, in 1969 only 11,000 viewers were recorded. Over the decades, internationally known riders such as Fritz Thiedemann , Alwin Schockemöhle , Hugo Simon , Christina Liebherr as well as Heike Kemmer and Ulla Salzgeber have been on the starting lists of the jumping and dressage competitions .

Since 2008 the tournament has been held as an international CSI 2 * or CSI 3 * on the initiative and leadership of Hans Günter Winkler . In addition, national dressage tests up to S level are held.

The scarlet fever race itself was unique in the world in the mode it was held until 2009. It included dressage, jumping, hunting horse tests behind the pack and a final flat race, which was held among the best applicants. In 2009, after only seven starters took part in the combined tests and three riders in the horse race in 2008, a new competition mode was implemented for the first time. The first partial test is a national eventing test in class L. On Sunday the traditional horse race will be held as the second - separately rated - partial test.

In 2012 they returned to old traditions and held a combined test of an L-class jumping test and an L-class hunting horse test under the name Scharlachrennen. In addition, the horse race took place as a separate test on Sunday. In 2014, instead of the combined test, there was a class L jumping competition over natural obstacles, which served as qualification for the horse race on Sunday.

List of winners from 2006

year	Announcement of the tournament	Winner in the scarlet race (combined classification or eventing)	Winner in the scarlet race (horse race)	Winner in the show jumping Grand Prix
2006	national show jumping and dressage tournament	Julia Schmid Flox	Bianca Heger Alfa Course	Armin Schäfer jun. Cassini
2007	national show jumping and dressage tournament	Bruno Six Crown Prince	Bianca Heger Alfa Course	Maximilian Ziegler Colette
2008	CSI 3 *, national dressage competition	Julia Schmid Flox	Bianca Heger Alfa Course	Marcus Ehning Sabrina
2009	CSI 2 *, national dressage and eventing tournament	Bodo Battenberg Robber Hotzenplotz	Bodo Battenberg Robber Hotzenplotz	Marcus Ehning Sandro Boy
2010	CSI 2 *, national dressage and eventing tournament	Michael Jung Vincent	Anja Beifuss De Negro	Tim Hoster Rastellie
2011	national show jumping, dressage and eventing tournament	Julia Schmid Ronaldinio	Roland's friend Koryfeusz	Maximilian Ziegler Ratina 193
2012	national show jumping and dressage tournament	Julia Mestern FRH Schorsch	Julia Mestern FRH Schorsch	Michael Koelz Dipylon
2013	national show jumping and dressage tournament	Carolina Wieland Larry Lässig	Anja Fahrmeier Eulogius xx	Simone Blum Flying Boy
2014	national show jumping and dressage tournament		Bodo Battenberg Cadgold	Stefanie Boniberger Limerick
2015	national show jumping and dressage tournament		Result not published	Simone Blum Flying Boy
2016	national show jumping and dressage tournament		Result not published	Hans-Peter Konle Cobelix
2017	national show jumping and dressage tournament		Romina Berr Greenlawn True Enough	Patrick Afflerbach Cassito and Ciara
2018	national show jumping and dressage tournament		Alois Grater Bacchus	Hans-Peter Konle Quick Stepp
2019	national show jumping and dressage tournament		Roland's friend Koryfeusz	Tobias Bachl Cicera de la Vayrie B.

Vienna

“The Scarlet Race” from History of the City of Vienna by Franz Tschischka

The scarlet fever race in Vienna is a horse race that took place twice a year from 1382 to 1534 on the occasion of the respective Viennese fair.

The scarlet race is first mentioned in a document in 1382, in connection with the relocation of the fair dates to Ascension Day (May 21) and St. Katharina (November 25) with the simultaneous extension of the market duration to four weeks each under Albrecht III. (September 29, 1382). The horse race was named after a piece of scarlet fever (original value: 30 Hungarian guilders ), a precious crimson wool cloth intended for the winner . There was no toll to be paid for the racehorses that were transported to Vienna for the occasion. The scarlet fever race was announced the evening before at the Schranne (courthouse) on the Hohe Markt by trumpeters and criminals. The start was in St. Marx (outside the city wall), the race track went over the Rennweg to the Wien River, then through the Ungargasse back to St. Marx. The participants (on average between six and 13 riders) had to register themselves, the entry fee was 1 Hungarian Forint . The second prize was a crossbow, the third a suckling pig. After the scarlet fever race, there was a race for free servants and maidservants, each with a piece of bark for the winner and the winner. After the award ceremony, the mayor gave a feast in the town hall at the city's expense. Not only the top of the bourgeoisie attended the festival, but also Austrian rulers. In 1486 the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus sent four horses into the race. The last time the scarlet race took place in 1534.

Munich

On the Jakobidult in 1448, the scarlet fever race took place for the first time in front of the Karlstor in Munich , after it was initiated by the Bavarian Duke Albrecht III. and the city was advertised. The last time the race took place in 1786 - in 1810 it was revived by the Munich citizenship in honor of the wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen , which resulted in the Oktoberfest .

literature

• Wilfried Sponsel (Ed.), Herbert Dettweiler (Articles): District of Donau-Ries. Nature and culture in a unique landscape. From the meteorite crater to the Ries National Geopark . Typesetting and graphics partner, Meitingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-935438-60-5 .
• Heinrich Berg: The scarlet race: The medieval Viennese " Pallio ". In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Volume 45, Vienna 1990, p. 112 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Scarlet Races  - Sources and Full Texts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gundolf Keil : Munich, Fritz. In: Author's Lexicon . Volume VI, Col. 751.
2. ^ Nördlingen: The tournament and its history , csi-noerdlingen.com
3. ^ Nördlingen: The scarlet race , csi-noerdlingen.com
4. ↑ Results scarlet fever race Nördlingen 2012
5. ↑ Tournament calendar of the German Equestrian Association
6. ↑ Result lists 2009 and 2010 ( Memento of the original from August 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , csi-noerdlingen.com 
7. ↑ Press releases on the 2008 Scarlet Fever Race
8. ↑ Patrick Afflerbach wins twice in Nördlingen , Ursula Puschak / bayernspferde.de, July 24, 2017
9. ↑ ^{a b} Little Chronicle. (...) The scarlet race in Old Vienna on May 21st. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 17865/1914, May 22, 1914, p. 8, center left. (Online at ANNO ). .
10. ^ Richard Perger, Scharlachrennen, in: Historisches Lexikon Wien, Vol. 5, Vienna 2004, p. 65.
11. ^ History of the suburb of Landstrasse
12. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung : Pigs are everywhere