Schoppenstecher still image

The Mainz "Schoppenstecher" - monument to the Mainz wine culture

The Schoppenstecher statue is located on the edge of the Schillerplatz in Mainz between the Schönborner Hof and the Proviant-Magazin , in the former garden of the Schönborner Hof.

etymology

The name of the drinker shown is derived from Schoppen = to scoop - originally a container for liquids , later a measure of space for drinks meant and to pierce = to drink, enjoy wine regularly and with pleasure .

Schoppenstecher is a typical Mainz term for a wine drinker who sticks his nose into a Mainz pole in one of the Mainz wine taverns at dusk , which is where the expression Schoppe stinge comes from.

Artist

The creator of the statue , so to speak, is the Mainz porcelain manufacturer Heinz Schaubach , who was a member of Die Ehrbare Mainz Wine Guild from 1443 and at the same time the first designer of the guild chronicle. Schaubach donated the bronze monument to the city of Mainz for its 2000th anniversary in 1962.

layout

Schoppestecher at the Mainz Christmas market

Mainz Schoppenstecher holds in his right hand the typical Mainz Wine Glass, the cylindrical Mainzer rod , which is used in the wine bars of the city for easy serving wines. The figure embodies the joie de vivre, joie de vivre and humor of the real Meenzer (colloquial for Mainz).

The figure also symbolizes and unites the Völkermühle on the Rhine described by Carl Zuckmayer : Gauls , Romans , Rhine-Franconian elements, Alemannic and Huguenot components and, last but not least, the Jewish elements.

Since 2002, the Schoppestecher has been one of the typical Mainz figures in the Christmas pyramid at the Mainz Christmas market .

Schoppenstecher Prize

A miniature replica of the Schoppenstech statue was first issued in 1973 by the city of Mainz and has been awarded by Rheinhessenwein eV since 1983 for special services to Rheinhessen wine . Hans-Jörg Koch was the 1985 laureate. 1997 laureate: Rainer Brüderle ex-viticulture minister of Rhineland-Palatinate . The Schoppenstecher Prize 2002 was awarded to Reinhard Muth , Honorary President of the German Viticulture Association . It was not until 2008 that the prize was awarded again, this time to Hans-Artur Bauckhage, the former minister for viticulture in Rhineland-Palatinate . The jury justified this with the words: "Made strong with great commitment to increasing the image of our wines ."

Further award winners:

Oskar Foltyn ,
Wolfgang Dubs 1983
Jakob Seip 1984
Hermann Dexheimer, Mainz and Dr. Helmut Finger, Oppenheim, 1989
Riquet HL Hess, Schlangenbad and Richard Sebastian , Nieder-Olm, 1990
Rolf Braun , Mainz 1991
Rainer Brüderle , Mainz, 1997
Reinhard Muth , Alsheim, 2002
Hansjochem Schrader , Alzey, 2004
Hans-Artur Bauckhage , Daaden, 2008
Peter Eugen Eckes , 2016

Individual evidence

^ Rhein Main Presse, Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, July 9, 2008, p. 5.
↑ The Schoppenstecher Prize Winners , accessed on January 11, 2018.
^ Vita von Seip, Jakob * Heinrich (1920–2001) ( Memento from February 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
^ Rheinhessen : Schoppenstecherpreis for Peter Eckes

Web links

Commons : Schoppenstecher still image - collection of images, videos and audio files

Ilona Hartmann: At the Proviant-Magazin: symbol for Meenzer cosiness . Article in Der Mainzer - Die Stadtillustrierte. Issue 208, January 2008

49.99927 8.26592Coordinates: 49 ° 59 '57.37 " N , 8 ° 15' 57.31" E

[1] Rhein Main Presse, Allgemeine Zeitung Mainz, July 9, 2008, p. 5.

[2] The Schoppenstecher Prize Winners , accessed on January 11, 2018.

[3] Vita von Seip, Jakob * Heinrich (1920–2001) ( Memento from February 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive )

[4] Rheinhessen : Schoppenstecherpreis for Peter Eckes