School pretzel

The school pretzel is baked in parts of Hesse and Swabia at the beginning of school.

approx. 1000g school pretzel with chocolate pieces in the batter, cut open to look inside

regional customs

Like the palm or pretzel on St. Martin's Day, it is baked from sweet yeast dough and often sprinkled with sugar. As a rule, it is distributed to those starting school. It weighs between 500 and 1,000 grams and is eaten with the family.

In some places it is customary to decorate the pretzel with colored bows and ribbons. So there is the old custom with the large pretzel on the baking sheet to lure the school newcomer into the classroom.

In the past, the teacher would bring the pretzel that the parents gave him to the child where he was. Today the pretzels are already on the school desks when the children enter the room. In the past, every child used to bake a pretzel in the community bakery. Today you usually have 2 - 3 pretzels of this size baked by the baker in order to be able to distribute a piece to relatives, neighbors and friends - this also includes the teacher.

Custom in Ravensburg

At the “ Rutenfest ” school festival , students in Ravensburg, Upper Swabia, receive a sweet pretzel called “Rutenbrezel”. Pretzels for the rod festival were first distributed in 1930 after the festive service with the “rod sausage”.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Irritations - alienations - delimitations: questions to primary school research (= Heike de Boer, Heike Deckert-Peaceman, Kristin Westphal [eds.]: Frankfurter Contributions to Educational Science . Volume 13 ). Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-9813388-5-0 , p. 67 (244 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
2. ^ Helmut Binder, Alfred Lutz, Markus Glonnegger: The Ravensburger Rutenfest in the past and present . Biberacher Verlagsdruckerei, Biberach 1997, ISBN 3-924489-87-4 , p. 74