Zwänzgerle

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Zwänzgerle on Easter Monday 2012 on Rüdenplatz in Zurich. At the bottom right the fire brigade music old town.

Zwänzgerle or Driirüere (Zurich German for “throw in”) is a Zurich Easter custom . The custom goes like this: A child holds out a hard-boiled egg to an adult. The adult tries to throw a piece of twenty centimes (in Zurich German : Zwänzgerli ) so that it gets stuck in the hard-boiled egg. If this does not succeed and the coin bounces off, the child receives the coin, otherwise the thrower can have the egg.

Public “ egg cones ” have been known in Zurich for centuries. The Zwänzgerle was first documented to be described by a visitor to Zurich under the name Driirüere in 1909, although two centimes were still used at that time and not as today. The custom of bagging eggs as well as driering later fell asleep and was revived by the district association of District 1 on the right of the Limmat in April 1960.

The Zwänzgerle takes place on Easter Monday on Rüdenplatz or under the arches in the old town on the right of the Limmat .

Web links

• Zwänzgerle on Myswitzerland
• “Das Zwänzgerle” from “Gang dur Züri” by the Dürst brothers

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} [without author:] A risen custom: egg cones on the Limmatquai. In: Tagblatt der Stadt Zürich , March 5, 1999, p. 3.