Weserbogenlied

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The Weserlied , also called Weserbogenlied , actually an ode to the Weserland, is a common home song, almost a home hymn , in Ostwestfalen-Lippe . Here it is an expression of regional awareness in Ostwestfalen-Lippe and is particularly common in the districts of Höxter, Holzminden and Minden-Lübbecke , but it can also be found at public festivals in the Central Weser region as far as the Bremen area .

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Where the Weser makes a wide bend,
Where the Kaiser Wilhelm keeps a loyal watch,
Where you drink half a drink in two gulps,
 |: There is my home, there I am at home. : |
Refrain:
We're moving to the Weserland, to the
beautiful homeland,
I want to love you
until death.
Where the crooked Diemel flows into the Weser,
Where the Jordan shoots up,
where the sick gout and rheumatism are driven out,
 |: There is my home, there I am at home. : |
Refrain:
Where the little Bastau flows into the Weser,
Where the Kaiser Wilhelm greets from afar,
Where you can hear the cathedral's bells near and far,
 |: This is my home, yes, I like to live there. : |
Refrain:
If I have to move into the far distance,
the longing drives me back to the Weser,
From Hann Münden to the North Sea beach
 |: There is my home, is my fatherland. : |
Refrain:
Once I'm dead, I'll dig a grave
into the earth that I loved so much.
Write these words on my tombstone:
 |: Here was my home, here I was at home. : |
Refrain:

Explanations

"Where the Weser a large sheet makes" describes the major Weserbogen south of Porta Westfalica - the Weser turns its course shortly before the Weser breakthrough to the west before settling in "wide berth" east again and finally through the Porta Westfalica north again turns. ⊙

“Where the Kaiser Wilhelm keeps the loyal watch” describes the Kaiser Wilhelm monument at Porta Westfalica on the Wiehengebirge side. ⊙

“Where the crooked Diemel flows into the Weser ” - the Diemel is a river in the south of East Westphalia-Lippe and flows into the Weser near Bad Karlshafen. ⊙

“Where the Jordan shoots up” - The Jordan Spring is a healing spring in Bad Oeynhausen ⊙ .

"Where you hear the cathedral bells far and wide" - meaning the Minden Cathedral ⊙ . This is located on the bank terrace of the Weser, the Kaiser Wilhelm monument at Porta Westfalica is within sight.

"Where to drive out the sick gout and rheumatism " - describes that there is an extraordinarily large number of spas in East Westphalia-Lippe (e.g. Bad Oeynhausen ⊙ , Bad Salzuflen ⊙ and others).

"Where the small Bastau flows into the Weser " the Bastau is a small river that flows through the Hiller Moor and Minden , on the Weser promenade the Bastau then flows into the Weser . ⊙

Modifications

The Weserlied is also available in Low German , the refrain is then e.g. B .: There is my home, there ben ik to hus!

For the second stanza there is the following modification, which is the more common version, especially in the Mindener Land and the Ravensberger Mulde , as the Werre is a river that flows into the Weser near Bad Oeynhausen, and the Kaiser Wilhelm monument is visible from this point is:

Where the wild Werre flows into the Weser,
Where the Kaiser Wilhelm greets from afar,
Where gout and rheumatism are driven out of the sick,
 |: There is my home, there I am at home. : |

There is also the stanza:

Where Holzminde, Forstbach flows into the Weser,
where the beautiful gorse sprouts on the slopes,
where the wanderer rests tiredly on the way,
|: There is my home, there I am at home. : |

In the East Westphalian youth, other, not seriously meant, modifications (mostly in the "beer mood" of a folk festival) are common. B. (...) I want to love you, Barre Bräu Pils! or "I want to love you, Herford Pils no one wants it, Barre Bräu your heart pleases Hoy!" for young people from the Minden-Lübbecke district , answered by the local rivals of the Herford district with (...) I want to love you, Herford Pils!

The melody of the Weserlied is also known in other regions of Germany. B. in Mecklenburg ("Where the green meadows shine") and in Upper Franconia ("Upper Franconia, you my beautiful homeland") . The Oberschlesier- or Annaber-member , created before the referendum in Oberschlesien in 1921, is also sung to this melody and serves today as the unofficial anthem of the German minority in Oberschlesien.