Weisswurst equator
White sausage equator ( composite of white sausage and equator , also white sausage border ) is the joking name for an imaginary cultural border between parts of Bavaria and the rest of Germany . Their location is roughly based on the distribution area of the " Munich white sausage", which serves as an example of a symbol of " Bavarian food culture ".
course
In general, the white sausage equator is drawn along the Danube , but this excludes parts of Lower Bavaria , Upper Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate administrative region . Sometimes the 49th parallel (north of Ingolstadt ) is also referred to as the white sausage equator. Especially near Munich it is common to define the white sausage equator as a circle with a radius of 100 km around Munich, which in turn excludes parts of Upper and Lower Bavaria, but includes the administrative district of Swabia , which is not part of Old Bavaria.
Others see a Main line (roughly along the Main ) as a corresponding border: either the Upper German northern language border (" Germersheimer Line ", " Speyerer Line ") or the historical-political hegemony border between Prussia and Bavaria and Austria , which in addition to Old Bavaria also includes Baden- Württemberg and a large part of Franconia would include, although these areas are culturally very different from each other and the white sausage that gives it its name is not at home there.
In addition, the name is also used by North Germans and Central Germans to differentiate them from South Germans. Here, the white sausage equator mostly also runs along or near the Main.
Parallels
" Carnival Equator " is the line between the areas where " Alaaf " and " Helau " as Fastnachts - or Carnival - battle cry is in use.
Another language and cultural border in the German-speaking area is the “ Benrather Line ” ( closer to the Rhine, more like the “ Uerdinger Line ”) between the Lower and Central German- speaking areas .
Similar cultural and linguistic boundaries is also available in the Switzerland : first, the " rift " between the French-speaking population ( Romandie ) on one hand and the German-speaking Swiss on the other; on the other hand the much older " Brünig-Napf-Reuss-Line " from the time of the spheres of influence of the Alemanni and Burgundians .
reception
In Zwiesel , which is exactly at the 49th parallel, a white sausage equator monument was inaugurated on October 19, 2013.
literature
- Duden : German universal dictionary . 6th edition, ISBN 3-411-05506-5 .
- Friedrich Prinz : The white sausage equator. In: Étienne François , Hagen Schulze (Ed.): German places of memory . Volume 1. Beck, Munich 2001, pp. 471-483.
Web links
- Matthias Stolz: Map of Germany: Crossing the border between wheat beer and sausage. In: Die Zeit , August 12, 2010.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans-Ulrich Juergens, Hajo Blank: Germany Atlas for Children . Tessloff 1998, ISBN 978-3-788-60542-1 , p. 33 ( limited online copy in the Google book search)
- ↑ Arthur Dittlmann: The white sausage equator. A geographic exploration. In: Deutschlandradio Kultur. August 29, 2008. Retrieved April 3, 2009 .
- ^ Monika Wienfort: History of Prussia . CH Beck 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56256-3 , p. 82 ( limited online copy in the Google book search)
- ↑ Gabrielle Gockel: Munich . DuMont 2006, ISBN 978-3-770-16463-9 , p. 37 ( limited online copy in the Google book search)
- ↑ Badische-zeitung.de , Rosenmontag , February 8, 2016, Bernd Müllender: Alaaf in the Helau region (February 8, 2016)
- ↑ Weisswurst Equator. zwiesel.de