Stralau fish haul
The Stralauer Fischzug was an annual festival week in Berlin-Stralau that began on August 24th, Bartholomew's Day . The tradition goes back to a fishing ban from Easter to Bartholomew in 1574 , the end of which was celebrated by the Berliners every year. Since the festival kept getting dated, it was banned in 1873 and then only celebrated occasionally.
history
In an edict of February 22, 1574, Elector Johann Georg von Brandenburg decreed a ban on fishing from Easter to Bartholomew. Literally it says in the edict:
"We want, set and arrange that all and any water with large pulls of thread from Green Thursday to Bartholomäi should be spared so that the fishery is not harmed because the spawn and young fish are needed at inopportune times."
The order had extended the original sustainability requirement for Berlin fish stocks, before it had been allowed to catch until Jacobi ( July 25 ). From the new edict, the tradition developed to celebrate the fishing after the annual closed season - the Stralau fishing expedition was born. The festival was an event for Berliners every year. An author wrote in the Illustrirten Zeitung in September 1832 :
“The crowd becomes innumerable in the afternoon. Car to car, head to head, pushes through the narrow, crooked, probably ancient path, which, completely covered by oak trees, stretches along the Spree between meadows from the Stralauer Thor. People strove for the inns and gardens. Towards evening the merriment becomes so loud that the silent observer withdraws from the noise, which can be dangerous. "
The actual fishing trips, five according to the church register of 1574, took place at dawn between Oberbaum and Stralau Church . A part of the catch traditionally went to the preacher to improve his meager salary . In a later time, the magistrate as landlord also got its share.
Since the festival degenerated into wild drinking bouts , fights and orgiastic hustle and bustle every year , it was banned by the head of the office on August 23, 1873 . After a revival in 1923, it was again no longer allowed to take place a few years later. As part of the 700th anniversary celebrations in Berlin on August 15, 1937, a flower-decked float of the Straulau fishing procession also took part. During the GDR era, the festival was celebrated again between 1954 and 1962. After almost 65 years, to the delight of the long-time residents as well as other interested parties, on the initiative of the Stralau e. V. for the first time again this festival week. But because money is getting scarcer and sponsors are missing, this festival came to a standstill again in 1998.
The statue of the " Stralau fisherman " in the fishing fountain at Treptow town hall , which the sculptor Reinhold Felderhoff created in 1916, reminds of the fishing trip .
literature
- The Stralower fish haul . In: Illustrirte Zeitung . No. 10 . J. J. Weber, Leipzig September 2, 1843, p. 155 ( books.google.de ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Maritta Tkalec: The Berliner could be funny there . In: Berliner Zeitung . No. 297 , December 19, 2016, p. 14 ( berliner-zeitung.de ).
- ↑ Uta Herrmann: Fischzug, Liebesinsel and Wasserblick. Construction noise at the Rummelsburger Bucht. In: Neues Deutschland , July 24, 1998