Villach Church Day
The Villacher Kirchtag has been held annually in Villach in Carinthia , Austria , since August 1, 1936 , and today consists of over 100 individual events. It is considered the largest traditional festival in Austria and now lasts eight days, if you add the Villach City Run, which takes place directly before, even ten.
history
The festival committee chaired by the mayor organized the first church day in 1936 to commemorate the right granted by Emperor Friedrich in 1225 to hold a fair on Jacob's day. At that time, Villach was given the right to hold a fair 14 days before and 14 days after Jakobi (July 25).
From 1940 to 1947 the church day was canceled due to the war . The first church day after the war in 1948 was the first major event where food was served without food stamps . In 1950, the Villacher Bauerngman , a charitable men’s association founded in 1908, introduced the church day shop . The children's cash register is filled by the loader activity , from which those in need are still supported today. In 1966, the Villacher Kirchtag association introduced the so-called Customs Week before the festival .
In 2020, the Villacher Kirchtag was canceled due to the ban on events, which will apply until the end of August 2020.
The highlight of the Villach Church Day is the traditional costume parade on the first Saturday in August. The festival begins on the Sunday before and ends on the Sunday after. The custom week has meanwhile been replaced by the term church day week.
organization
Since 2013 the festival has been organized by Villacher Kirchtag GmbH , which is majority owned by the city of Villach . Villacher Bauerngman holds a symbolic share in the GmbH (0.3 percent) . The Villacher Kirchtag association and its members have only acted as an advisory board since then. With the organizational restructuring, one wants to exclude that club members are personally liable for the festival, the budget of which has long exceeded the million euro limit. Joe Presslinger has been the managing director of the GmbH since it was founded.
gallery
Traditional hat "Kirchtagslader" of the Bauerngman from Villach, Carinthia
Villacher Kirchtag 2017
The then Federal Chancellor Christian Kern with Governor Peter Kaiser and Villach Mayor Günther Albel at the Villach costume parade 2017
The traditional Villach parish soup
Villacher Kirchtagspärchen, bronze sculpture on May 8th, donated by the city of Villach in 2008 on the occasion of 100 years of Bauerngman Villach.
The 67th Villach Church Day in 2010
Villach church soup
Vegetables, spices, herbs, sweet and sour cream, cinnamon, saffron, which give the soup its yellowish color, and the three types of meat beef, chicken and pork are essential in Villach's Kirchtagssuppe. All three types of meat are then cut into small pieces and served in the soup.
- Clean, wash and chop the vegetables. Serve with the water, herbs and spices (except saffron) and the meat and do not simmer too much until the meat is done and a strong soup is created. Strain through a fine sieve and let the meat cool down and cut into small cubes.
- Set aside a cup of the hot base soup and soak the saffron in it.
- Mix the sour cream and whipped cream and stir into the basic soup. Add saffron, bring to the boil briefly. Season again to taste
- and bind with cornstarch as required.
- Serve with the meat cubes as an insert.
- There is also original Kärntner Reindling .
literature
- A solid Gaude - manual for the Villacher Kirchtag. Edition Kleine Zeitung, Graz 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b History and purpose of the Bauerngman Villach. bauerngman.at (accessed April 11, 2016).
- ↑ Villacher Kirchtag canceled. In: ORF.at. April 17, 2020, accessed April 17, 2020 .
- ↑ Georg Lux: Time Lapse . In: Edition Kleine Zeitung (Hrsg.): A solid Gaude - manual for the Villacher Kirchtag . Edition Kleine Zeitung, Graz 2018, p. 8-9 .