Weiberzeche

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The Weiberzeche is a former rural custom in some communities in Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate . Once a year the women of the village, who were doing slave labor , came together at the town hall to let men pour and drink wine. For this purpose, there were foundations in some places from which the Weiberzeche was financed.

Origin and course

The custom has been interpreted differently. The Güglingen pastor Johann Christoph Elben perceived the custom as a pagan Bacchus festival , as he wrote in 1790. The fact that women were usually only rarely allowed to take part in the feasts of men and that drinking together by women and men was socially frowned upon also promoted this tradition.

An old description adorns: The women's mine often began early in the morning and was associated with a women's court. The pastor's wife took over the chairmanship and certain minor "offenses" such as uncleanliness in the kitchen or neglect of the children were atoned for. As evidence, unclean bowls and vessels as well as laundry were presented to the community of women. As a punishment, the guilty had to clean their ears in front of all their children or clean their vessels at the public fountain during the feast. The rules of the Weiberzeche also included absolute secrecy about the conversations held, although participation in the following year was only permitted in the kitchen or away from the community in the event of violations. Also, no woman was allowed to leave the festival before dark.

Weiberzechen were held on different dates, sometimes on May 1st, but in many places also on Shrovetide.

distribution

The custom of the Weiberzeche was widespread in many places until the end of the 18th / beginning of the 19th century. In some places the Weiberzeche has turned into a ladies' coffee gossip, or today it is also a women's carnival celebration. This is the case in Überlingen, for example. The so-called Wiiberklatsch in Bad Säckingen also refers to the old tradition of the Weiberzeche. In some cases the custom has recently been revived, for example in 2009 in Kleingartach. There, the Weiberzeche came to an end for the time being in 1607, probably because the women had exaggerated it. The Weiberzeche was once banned in other places too, such as Spielberg, but the ban was not implemented there until 1835. In Ochsenbach, the custom was common from at least 1660 to 1836. Every year people met here on the 1st Sunday of Lent (Sunday Invocabit). Based on the ancient Roman festival bona dea , the custom was also called bonede there. At the last colliery in 1836, 135 people came together, drank 126 liters of wine and ate 135 rolls.

The Weiberzeche is occupied among others for the following places:

literature

  • Isolde Döbele-Carlesso : Women and Wine - To the old custom of the Weiberzeche . 1st edition. Carlesso, Brackenheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-939333-05-0 .
  • Rudolf Schultze: History of wine and drinking - a contribution to the general history of culture and morals , Nicolaische Verlagsbuchhandlung, Berlin 1867
  • Paul Schmidt: The Ochsenbacher Weiberzeche , in: Zabergäuvereins magazine H 2/3, 1996

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisabeth Skrzypek: The women were crazy about it . Reutlingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-88627-691-2 , p. 234-241 .
  2. ↑ Lecture on the "Weiberzeche" in the Roman Museum. roemermuseum-gueglingen.de, accessed on May 31, 2013 .
  3. ↑ Thomas Hengartner: Luxury foods: a cultural history handbook , Campus Verlag, 1999, page 183 ISBN 978-3-593363370
  4. ^ Johann Ernst Fabri: Contributions to Geography, History and State Studies , Volume 1, Verlag Schneider and Weigel, 1794, page 163/64 pdf
  5. ↑ Elisabeth Skrzypek: The women were mad . Reutlingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-88627-691-2 , p. 243 ff .
  6. ^ Susanne Walter: First women's mine after 402 years. Stimme.de, February 27, 2009, accessed May 31, 2013 .
  7. ↑ Dieter Buck: The big book from Stromberg-Heuchelberg. Nature, culture, history, places . 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-87407-704-7 , p. 127 .
  8. ↑ Dieter Buck: The big book from Stromberg-Heuchelberg. Nature, culture, history, places . 1st edition. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2006, ISBN 3-87407-704-7 , p. 117 .
  9. ↑ Women and Wine - On the old custom of the Weiberzeche. Retrieved May 31, 2013 .