Weender stroll
The Weender Bummel was a regional student custom that originated in Göttingen in the 19th century and lived until the early 1930s.
The stroll took place as a so-called Weender stroll every Sunday, and later also on Saturdays, from eleven to around one in the afternoon and gave Weender Strasse in Göttingen the flair of a spa promenade . It always followed a certain pattern: It always began after the services had ended, started on the east side of Weender Strasse at Göttinger Nabel and went to the corner of Rote Strasse . The adjoining street sections in front of the churches had to be left out because there was Sunday rest. The other side of the Weender Straße was frowned upon as the Groner or Ten Pfennigseite and was left to non-academic citizens.
In the period up to the First World War , it was primarily the color-bearing frat boys who remained leisurely talking the Weender are street and strolled off and on for a more or less ambitious conversation; whoever wanted to see and be seen went for a stroll on the Weender. Erich Hückel writes: At this one, the students strolled back and forth on the street and greeted each other for the umpteenth time at the umpteenth encounter. For the sake of fun, the women who were on the Weender stroll were referred to by the students as a traffic obstacle because of their penchant for looking at shop windows .
After the First World War, the Weender Bummel flourished again for a few years. However, it came to an abrupt end at the beginning of the 1930s when this cozy and informal way of civil communication had to give way to the organized mass elevators of the National Socialists .
literature
- Walter Nissen , Waldemar Röhrbein : Göttingen as it was. Düsseldorf 1975, p. 32 ff.