Witzerundweg

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Shoemaker boy at the fountain

The Witzerundweg is a tourist educational trail in Calau , a small town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in southern Brandenburg .

Background and structure

The city claims that the puns originated there. It refers to the craft of the shoemakers who produced in the village in the 19th century. As a result, the shoemaker boys told each other rather flat jokes and jokes during the night-long work . The editor Ernst Dohm , who was on vacation in Calau, wrote down these jokes and published them in his magazine Kladderadatsch under the heading “News from Kalau”. These publications are said to have consolidated the term "puny" in the vernacular. The city has therefore designed a circular route that leads through the city center on 25 boards. The boards are set up at historically significant, usually listed buildings, touristic points, but also private buildings. The respective location is described on them and, if possible, accompanied by a suitable pun. The owners had the opportunity to contribute to the selection of the puns. The tables are accompanied by a shoemaker boy, who is supposed to remind of the past tradition of shoe-making in the village and serves as the town's mascot . The bronze figures were created by the Rheiner sculptor Werner Bruning . The circular route was opened on May 21, 2011.

Stations (selection)

  • In front of the Calau town hall there is a fountain with a plaque of the Witzerundweg. It is reminiscent of the historical water pipes from the 14th and 15th centuries, when the city used wooden pipes to channel the water into eight pipe boxes , from which the citizens supplied themselves with drinking water. They became superfluous with the construction of an iron pipeline in 1888, but were retained as a fire water reserve on the market square. In 2000 and 2001 it was converted into a fountain. The joke is: “Where is the largest marketplace in the world? In Calau, of course, because it extends from the cellar to the sun! (Ratskeller on the south side, Hotel zur Sonne on the north side) ”(of the town hall).
  • There is a post milestone at the corner of Joachim-Gottschalk-Straße / Karl-Marx-Straße . Its exact origin is unknown, although it bears the year 1782. Presumably it was set up as the Kursächsische Postmeile column in 1738. As a pun, the saying was used: “Why is the Calau train station so far away from the city? Because the old city fathers wanted him close to the tracks! Distance from the post mile column to the train station 2300 m ”.
  • To the east of the town church Calau is the former old school house . The half-timbered house was built in 1789 and was used as a girls' school from 1887 to 1902. It has been the seat of the local history museum since 1935. The joke refers to the church: “Why was there a weathercock and not a hen on the Calau church roof on the east side? Who should have caught the eggs there? "
  • The war memorial is located on Karl-Marx-Strasse to the south of the Calau town church . It was installed in the old cemetery in front of the Cottbuser Tor in 1787 and was made by the sculptor Engelhardt from Döbel . In 1901 the district building was rebuilt and the war memorial was also moved to its current location. The joke is: “In Calau even the monuments have gone mad! The district war memorial had to be moved to a different location in 1901 because the new district building was built on the previous site. "

Awards

  • War memorial

  • Plaque at the war memorial

  • Mail column

  • Board on the post column

  • Girls fountain

  • Blackboard at the girls' fountain

  • Shoemaker boy at the tourist information office

More joke ways

The following routes can be found in Switzerland :

Web links

Commons : Witzerundweg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

  • City of Calau (ed.): Living together in Calau ... a perfectly healthy city with a joke, information for residents , p. 34, brochure, without a date
  • City of Calau (Hrsg.): Calauer Witzerundwe g, flyer, without date

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Kalauer , website of the city of Calau, accessed on July 1, 2014.
  2. ↑ Holger Kreitling: Joke come out, you are surrounded by puns . In: Die Welt , June 3, 2011, accessed July 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Harriet Stürmer: Surrounded by puns . In: Märkische Oderzeitung , June 13, 2011, accessed on July 1, 2014.
  4. ↑ No April Fool's joke - Calau extends the Witzerundweg . In: Lausitzer Rundschau , April 1, 2014, accessed on July 1, 2014.
  5. ^ Opening of the Witzerundweg in Calau , website of the city of Calau, accessed on July 1, 2014.