Schnatgang Osnabrück

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Schnatgangstein at the Hotel Walhalla in Osnabrück

The Schnatgang Osnabrück was from 1587 a limit passage in the Hare - Laischaft in Lower Saxony Osnabrück . It was then also carried out in other lay communities in Osnabrück in order to rule out disputes due to alleged or actual border shifts. Schnat is the Low German word for border. In the 19th century, the Schnatgang was decorated in the Heger Laischaft as a traditional festival, which to this day only takes place every seven years. The participants greet each other with “Olle Use” (Everything Our).

Olle Use is also the name of a pub in Osnabrück near the Heger Tor .

History of the Schnatgang

Boundary markings

Bad Iburger Schnautgangsstein on Dörenberg from 2002

In the past, forest aisles, streams, hedges or ditches were used as border markings. Up to the 17th century, trees that were specially planted were also used for marking purposes by hammering a cross into them with an ax. Later boundary stones or hat stones were used and often consisted of different materials than the stones from the area, so that the boundary stones could be better distinguished from the natural stones. Since there is no land registers or cadastral maps was that knowledge was available about the respective limits only in the memory of contemporaries. Even severe penalties did not stop people from moving the boundary stones. As this task of checking and managing the Feldmark became too much for the city council, it gradually placed the control of the boundary stones in the hands of the Osnabrück layoffs and thus got rid of a problem and area of ​​conflict.

In order to check the correctness of the municipal border, the border markings had to be cut free and the new citizens should be given information about the course of the borders. Initially, there were official border inspections (Schnatganges), which were then taken over from 1587 by the lay members and repeated every one or two years.

Gnaws

The citizens of the Laischaften cultivated common lands on the outskirts of the city and also in forests outside the city limits of Osnabrück (for example in front of the Heger Tor in Heger Holz). A precise knowledge of the boundaries and authorizations was very important. In order to avoid controversy, from 1587 in the Osnabrück region Schnatgang was regularly carried out at the borders with general attention. In the Heger Laischaft, in the year 1636, still in the middle of the Thirty Years War , with the help of 22 people with their weir, a gnawing walk was carried out in order to inspect the paths, the land defense and dams. After the Thirty Years' War the lay families got greater rights and took on greater duties.

Poaläsen

Elsewhere, the Schnatgang was used as an opportunity to "poaläsen" new citizens. The "Poaläsende" was lifted by some Schnatgoers ("Schnadloipers") and held over a boundary stone. Then his rear part ("Ääs") was placed on the stone ("Poal") several times. Literally:

"He was cut off from the fact that he would not forget the boundary stone"

The aim was to make the new citizen aware of the location of the boundary stone in the long term and from then on the Laischaft members were called Poal citizens ( long -established residents ). They returned the favor with a donation for acceptance into the laischaft and a party could take place at the closest resting place on the Schnadegang.

Olle Use

"Olle use" Osnabrück

During the Schnatgang in Osnabrück, the laymen marched out of the city with music and a stop was made at a boundary stone or other important border point. The youth had to be there because they also came to know the exact demarcation and got a certain cut-off point when reciting "Kikes dat is" and "Olle Use" a slap in the face . The boys should also be permanently impressed with the specific border points, with a noticeable slap on the cheek. Everyone involved then always raised their hands and shouted: Olle Use, Olle Use! (High German: Alles Unser.) Afterwards we celebrated with kringel and beer. In the 19th century the Schnatgang was performed less and less. Little by little, many of the Laischafts' grazing grounds were auctioned and sold.

Memorial stone and tradition

Above a side entrance of the Hotel Walhalla , a half-timbered building from 1690 in the style of an arable citizen's house in the old town of Osnabrück, in the immediate vicinity of the town hall , a memorial stone was placed in memory of the Schnatgang in 1934.

It bears the inscription:

"If you care about it, you have to do this / We hate the nose to slurp / then don't put it here and pee / sock it out in a corner".
(Snautgang 1934).
dt: If you come out of this door and your nose is already running, then don't stand here to pee, look for another place to do it.

Today every seven years from the old town through the Heger Tor , along Lotter Straße to a memorial stone in the wall of the former transport company, a Schnatgang is carried out as a tradition without legal consequences, in order to then be able to celebrate a festivity. The memorial stone with a stylized hand and the inscription " Heger Laischaft " is intended to remind of a former boundary stone. After the Schnatgang a big parade is made through the decorated old town and on the houses there are boards with hearty Low German sayings.

Even today, two streets in the desert district are reminiscent of the old traditions: the Laischaftstrasse to the laischaften and the Schnatgang to the inspection of the laischaften.

The Schnatgang was revived in the city of Bad Iburg in 2002. A memorial stone on the Karlsplatz of the Dörenberg reminds of this with the inscription: "Schnautgang 2002 Bad Iburg".

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Heimat- Jahrbuch 1983, page 36.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Heger Laischaft: "The Schnatgang"
  3. ↑ a b Festive evening 450 years of Heger Laischaft
  4. ^ Josef Lappe, "The Schnadgang ..." by Jörg Schnadt
    + Schuetzenverein-Brilon (Schnadgang)