Weißwurstäquator

Weißwurstäquator or white sausage limit is the jocular name for an imaginary cultural boundary between Bavarians and the rest of Germany. It is oriented roughly divided in the dissemination of Munich white sausage used as an exemplar code " Bavarian food culture ".

Course

In general, the Weißwurstäquator along the Danube is pulled, but this excludes parts of Lower Bavaria, Upper Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate. Occasionally, the 49th parallel is ( runs north of Ingolstadt ) called white sausage equator. Especially near Munich, it is customary to define the Weißwurstäquator as a circle around Munich with a radius of 100 km, which parts of Upper Bavaria and Lower Bavaria excludes, including the administrative region of Swabia against it.

From other is a main line which runs approximately along the River Main, considered borderline, either the Upper German northern language border ( Germersheim line, Speyer line) or the historical- political hegemony limit of Prussia against Austria and Bavaria, which in addition to old Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg and a would include most of the Swiss franc with, where they differ culturally strong regions thereof, and the eponymous white sausage is not native there.

The term is also used by the North Germans and East Germans for the delimitation of the Süddeutsche. Here, the white sausage equator runs mostly along the River or in its vicinity.

Parallels

Another language and cultural border in the German-speaking world is the Benrather line ( near the Rhine but rather Uerdinger line) between the low -and intermediate German language area.

Similar cultural and linguistic boundaries are also in Switzerland: first, the rift between the Francophone ( French-speaking ) on the one hand and the German Swiss, on the other hand; on the other, much older Brünigbahn -well - Reuss line from the time the control of the Burgundians and Alemanni.