Tönnekesdrieter
Tönnekesdrieter (German: Tönnchenscheißer ) is a (Duisburg-) Ruhrorter derision and symbolic figure .
origin
Tönnekesdrieter was an ugly description of a Ruhrorter who, due to the lack of sewerage in his city, thought of a disposal system in which the citizens' needs were no longer dumped into the gutters of the alleys, but instead one can rely on a Tönne (c) ( dialect for Ton), which was then emptied at some point in the nearby port and later, after a change in the law, was picked up weekly by a haulage company from the container owner. "Driet" is a Kleverland word for "Kot", "Mist" (related to the Cologne "Driss" or the English "debris").
Originally, a dispute about incorporation issues between Ruhrorter and Meiderich citizens seems to have been the reason why around 1900 the Ruhrs scolded Meiderich Meierk's cocks and they reciprocated with Ruhrorter-Tönnekes-Drieter .
This is how the people of Ruhrort came up with the unflattering name: The Tönnekes-Drieter.
Today the name Tönnekesdrieter enjoys a high reputation in Ruhrort again. Every year a Ruhrort carnival society awards the Tönnekesdrieter order only to personalities who have made an outstanding contribution to the cultivation of cultural and local customs - especially in the port district.
history
The conditions in the city of Ruhrort, which is only 100 houses in size and consisting of 500 inhabitants, were a disaster from today's perspective.
A shift in the Rhine bed in the 14th century resulted in an island that later found a connection to the right bank of the Rhine and formed the land of the small town of Ruhrort, but did not allow any expansion. The little grassland that existed behind the later built city wall was declared a citizen pasture and divided among the house owners. So they became so-called grazing rights . So it was that the cattle could be driven to pasture , but had to be moved to higher areas after Meiderich when the floods occurred frequently.
The bristle cattle farming within the city caused some problems because of the lack of space. The stables were located in far too small backyards or, if available, even in the basement. It should have happened that the pigs were referred to the attic when the place was flooded. The dung was simply dumped onto the street, which was often less than three meters wide. In the middle of these alleys there was a sloping channel, and depending on the water level of the Ruhr or the Rhine , the slurry either ran off or not.
When the water level was higher, the manure was sometimes in the city for weeks. All sewage from the houses was also poured through the window onto the alley, because there was no sewer system yet. In order to build one, dikes and pumping stations would have to be built. But there was a lack of money and technology. So the disposal of animal waste had been regulated more poorly than right.
The tons
Humans, too, have always had their needs, which also needed clarification. Since Ruhrort was often flooded, the construction of toilets was avoided as it would have washed them away. A very simple method was found here: A small barrel (Tönne (c) ken) was set up in a corner of the courtyard or wherever - and the toilet was ready.
When the Tönneken was full, it was - to the delight of the boatmen - simply tipped into the harbor. The constant complaints from travelers caused the magistrate to forbid this bad habit and make it a criminal offense .
A haulage company from Dinslaken was commissioned to collect the contents of the Tönnekes every week and distribute them to the fields in the area. Whether the Ruhrorters had to pay to collect their Driets (for dung in the Lower Rhine region) is not known, but it can be assumed. It still happened often enough that some people simply continued to empty their Tönneken into the harbor at night and in fog.
It was not until 1870 that the first water pipes and sewers were laid in Ruhrort.
From the third to the knight
What Tünnes and Schäl are for Cologne residents , for Düsseldorfers their bike racket or for Münster residents for Kiepenkerl , the barrel user is for Ruhrort : a Ruhrort mocking figure who mocks narrow-mindedness, narrow-mindedness and class arrogance.
When the 1st Ruhrort Carnival Society White-Green from 1950 e. V. - Weiß-Grün for short - was about to find a name for their founding order, so what could be more natural than to fall back on the symbolic figure that is as original as it is characteristic of Ruhrort. And so it adorns the most coveted order in Duisburg, the Tönnekes-D'Ritter-Order . This is only awarded by the Carnival Association to personalities who have made an outstanding contribution to the cultivation of cultural and local customs, especially in the port district. The execution of the order comes from an idea by Karl Uphoff, a co-founder of the carnival society. August Fries, a former drawing teacher at what was then Kaiserin-Auguste-Victoria-Schule, now the Ruhrort comprehensive school, was commissioned .
On November 17, 1990, when those Mardi Gras Society celebrated its 40th anniversary, this historically verifiable symbol of a monument in the form of was involvement of citizens and friends of the district Bronze - reliefs set. Former Mayor Josef Krings was made the bearer of the largest Tönnekes-D'Ri (e) tter order at the entrance to the historic Ruhrort old town, which was demolished in the 1960s .
Everyone
here in Ruhrort calls themselves Tönnekes-Drieter proudly.
Even if the barrel is past
as "Tönnekes-D'Ritter" one likes to join in,
because this medal today
also testifies to the commitment of various people. The medal is only awarded to
those who have rendered a service to carnival and customs
.
literature
- Bernhard Weber-Brosamer (Ed.): OortsZeit: Urban development in Duisburg-Ruhrort . Wasmuth, Tübingen 1999, ISBN 3-8030-0400-4 .
- Heinz Zander: Mysterious Duisburg . Wartberg-Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2003, ISBN 3-8313-1299-0 , p. 47 .