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Nail bars and nail Bank, Betting nailing or Funny Nagelei, is a popular skill and competitive play, which was operated in a commercial form at fairs and carnivals and is. The aim of the game is to sink a nail with a hammer as little as possible in a wooden beam ( " nail bars" ). Necessary are both a " steady hand " and marksmanship, as well as depending on the type of wood and hardness as well as nail size a certain physical strength.

Since the material and preparation expenses are low, the nail bar or the betting nailing etc. offered as a " classic" part on the district, road, community, school and children's parties and used.

History

Nail trees are already in the Middle Ages. In the 18th century, the custom came up with a nail at an inn or a specially prepared tribe to perpetuate, as a guild tradition by traveling forge and blacksmiths in Austria. During the First World War, the idea of ​​the introduced " Wehrmann's in iron " as patriotic fundraiser and spread not only in Austria - Hungary, but also in the German Empire and other countries. For a donation could be a nail in the space established object.

The nail bar game as popular entertainment without warlike terms of fairs, festivals and at private parties is occupied since the 1920s. As far as for the participation a fee is charged, this can serve both the commercial profit, as for commercial transactions skill of showmen, as well as to charitable or non-profit purposes as "playing with donations character " on the part of most active non-profit operators.

The cultural scientist and deputy director of the Munich City Museum, Florian Dering, subordinates such - often called Funny Nagelei or similarly named - Looking stores in its 1986 published at Greno Verlag dissertation at the University of Munich with the title amusements. A picture rich cultural history of the ride, amusement or skill shops of showmen from the eighteenth century to the present, as a " stand-alone special type of skill business " field. Dering also displays this " very simple business form " on how detailed by the state, the regulations are laid down for skill games, where for the " Nagelei with one or three hammer blows " the same regulation applies:

In general, the nail bar is usually attached at table height with screw clamps or nailed metal angles or lugs on a stable base which for example consists of two trays or trestles or a sawhorse, or from a fairground or action level with correspondingly stable table base. Rarely, a tree trunk is used instead of the wooden beam. The game also feature a number of hammers, often also in different sizes, as well as enough nails in some different varieties.

The betting nailing can be played by a single person, such as under the current at corresponding carnival shops game Rule: "He who (only ) one or three hammer blows sunk with a nail, gets depending on the number a certain price or small profit ". However, it is often played by several people as a competition with each other.

Reception

In 1993 started German Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition (DASA ) and 2000 completed as part of the World Expo 2000 permanent exhibition DASA - Working World Exhibition of the Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in Dortmund, a nail bar is used as an interactive exhibition object to illustrate the physical competence of the people. The local exhibition area " habitat working world " is concerned among other things with the expertise of people in spiritual, psychological, physical and social terms, which will be implemented scenographically in four so-called " elementary spaces": Four cubic, mono material designed rooms radiate by light, sounds, artistic ciphers and the smell of the material a sensual experience, while each a " central object [ ... ] makes individually the elementary competence visible".

The fully trained in wood " basic space for physical competence" in the DASA contains a central interactive object a nail bar; the didactic approach of this object choice is by the physicist and head of the DASA, Gerhard Kilger, New in which together with Hans -Jürgen Bieneck for DASA, which he edited and published in 2002 at the Campus -Verlag anthology quality of work. How are we going to work tomorrow, circumscribed inter alia as follows: