Weisertweckenfahren

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Driving Weisertwecken is an old custom in the area of ​​the Bavarian Reichskreis as far as Traungau , which is still practiced in some regions.

meaning

The word Weisert or better actually Weisat has its origin in the Old High German word wisod , which means something like gift, and is related to the custom of "wisdom", giving gifts on certain occasions, which is particularly part of a wedding in parts of Bavaria and Austria is still alive, although in 1553 weddings were forbidden nationwide, except when “ father, mother or other close friends wanted to give or show something to the Preut people outside of the wedding, that should be useless, ” and by the land law of 1616 “ only those of the knighthood, nobility, old families, councilors and doctors ”was permitted.

As a wisdom, the young mother is brought a wheat flour biscuit to convalescence after the birth of the family owner , which comes from days when such biscuits were not yet commonplace. This handing over of the presents will then often turn into a happy get-together at Zum Weisert . The guests who bring bread traditionally want to be supplied with a snack and drinks.

The wish for a blessing is connected with waking up the wisdom, that the bread should never run out in the house and that God's blessing may also lie on the new citizen.

In the Salzburger Land , the godparents presented a large basket to the parents, who showed their appreciation for it. In addition to Weisertwecken and other luxury goods, this also contained clothing for the newborn.

Description of the awakening

The Weisertwecken is a long bread baked from wheat flour and decorated with bread or white bread dough, which is traditionally braided as a plait. Its length depends on the weight of the newborn at birth. The awakening is one meter long per pound of birth weight. In order to minimize the risk of breakage, the deliverers usually transport the wake up on a wooden ladder. To bring luck, the Weisertwecken has to go all the way into the house and is usually lifted into the children's room through the window.

literature

  • Nadine Luck: The navel of the world: The craziest customs around making, having and having babies . Conbook Verlag, 2015. ISBN 978-3-958-89087-9

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ernst Burgstaller : Austrian festive pastries . Federal guild of bakers, 1958 (p. XXXIV)
  2. ^ Johann Andreas Schmeller, Bavarian Dictionary. Collection of words and expressions that occur in the living dialects as well as in the older and oldest provincial literature of the Kingdom of Bavaria, especially in its older lands, and which are either not used at all in today's general German written language, or not used in the same meanings are , Cotta, Stuttgart 1837, Vol. 4, p. 180
  3. ^ Schmeller, Bavarian Dictionary , 1837, Vol. 4, p. 179
  4. ↑ Karl Zinnburg, Richard spreader: Salzburg folk customs . Verl. D. Salzburg printing works, 1977 (p. 192)
  5. ↑ Kulturverein Neuching: Weisertwecken ( Memento from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive )

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