Orphan green

Orphanage children move, etching by Christoffer Suhr (around 1800)

The Orphan Green was a festival held annually in Hamburg between 1633 and 1876 .

history

The Volksfest Waisengrün was held annually on the first Thursday in July between 1633 and 1876. First, orphans , accompanied by musicians, went through the city to collect donations for the orphanage from the audience . Then a party was celebrated in front of the stone gate . The last orphan green took place on July 6, 1876.

Heinrich Heine describes his impressions of the festival in the poem Memory of Hammonia .

Web links

Heinrich Heine: memories of Hammonia

Individual evidence

^ Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , pp. 735-736.

[1] Franklin Kopitzsch , Daniel Tilgner (ed.): Hamburg Lexikon. 4th, updated and expanded special edition. Ellert & Richter, Hamburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-8319-0373-3 , pp. 735-736.