Tag: Bavarian customs
Bavarian language root for Gerhard Polt: Bavarian is an ocean – Bavaria
When Gerhard Polt accepted the Bavarian language root on Saturday as the award winner, he said that shortly beforehand he had heard a speaker on the car radio announcing in…
Maypoles in Munich: set up and celebrate – Munich
The maypole was sometimes forbidden in Bavaria, so the Codex Maximilianeus Civilis forbade this custom, which served “nothing but mere bourgeois and peasant pleasure”. Also because hardly anyone stuck to…
First Communion: a Catholic cake fight – Bavaria
At the moment, First Communion is being celebrated in many communities, so it almost looks as if the old Catholic Bavaria still exists, as if Pope Benedict XVI. took the…
A maypole has to sound like dam, dam, dam – Bavaria
Wood technology professor Martin Illner examines the maypoles all over the country. After all, no one wants a landmark so many meters high to fall over. The expert also uses…
In the middle of Landshut: when sheep spoil the fun at Schafkopf
Card games, a leisure activity? Are you kidding me? Are you serious when you say that. Sometimes the hobby becomes a nuisance – especially when animals get in the way,…
Where palm bushes are still tied in Bavaria – Bavaria
Weihboim, palm boschen, palm brooms, palm sticks, palm bushes – there are many names for the palm bushes that are traditionally tied before Palm Sunday and blessed on Palm Sunday…
Customs: Cultural transfer with the handcart – Bavaria
North Germans in Bavaria – by no means an exception, but still viewed with slight suspicion in some places. Newcomers should exercise a certain amount of caution if they make…
Midwiesn in Munich: Oktoberfest once a year is not enough – Munich
Many work their whole lives towards it, apply dozens of times, and then nothing comes of it, their dream job at the Wiesnwirt. Alon Gleibs from the Neuhauser Großwirt on…
Franconia’s rafting is threatened by the drought – Bavaria
For at least six centuries, raftsmen sailed through the Franconian Forest and shipped timber via the Main and Rhine to the Netherlands. It was first mentioned in a document in…
history game: "Landshut wedding": Who will be the new bride and groom?
This Thursday, the association “Die Förderer” will present the main characters of the “Landshut Wedding 1475”. source site