Easter parade

The ratchets, in some areas also Räppeln, rattle, rattle (also nags, Kliäppern ), rasps, Schledern, Kläpstern, Klibberen, carts, Lören, Garren or Klacheln ( the latter especially in Eastern Austria ) called, is a custom that in Catholic areas is maintained during Holy Week. It attract children (mostly altar boys ) with wooden instruments, ratchets up, through the streets of villages and neighborhoods to different, with sayings to remind the faithful to prayer times and devotions.

Background

According to tradition, namely silent from Holy Thursday after the Gloria the entire Good Friday to Easter bells or their tongues, the clapper, as they were all flown to confession to Rome. As the church bells usually express a festive mood, the ringing is not attached at the time of Grabesruhe Jesus. In order to still bring it as close to the members of the religious community, the Angelus, 12 clock and 18 clock (in many areas frequently) is at 6 clock loudly reminded with the ratchet or rattling it. Both the mostly held by 15 clock Good Friday liturgy and by 8 clock Stations of the Cross is displayed and declared well in advance. And on Easter Sunday morning Jesus' resurrection is announced. The leader of a rattle group, usually the eldest, is called " rattling master " or " Vorklapperer ".

Even within the liturgy or the ratchets hammers are ( in the Rhön " rattle Sparrows "), and used instead of the altar bell ( clips), for example, in the procession with the Blessed Sacrament for Communion celebration on Good Friday.

History

The ratchet is an old tradition which is already mentioned in a 1482 book written in Coburg. Also in Sebastian Franck's " World Book " from the year 1534 we read:

"There you go with a throbbing carts and many boards around town and call the people to church passion. "

Verses on moving

One of the sayings that were created and then accompanied by tumultuous noise, reads: " "

The rattle boys and girls today Klapper have to get up very early, they want to perceive the first date at 6 clock in the morning. Had a potential registered Klapperer overslept, so he was ausgeklappert front of his house and mocked

XY, get up to pray, we are already all started.

On Holy Saturday ( regionally different) then the rattle wage was collected. The rattle group of House moved to house and collected eggs, money or candy. The rattle was saying then:

We have rattled for the Holy grave and ask for a mild Gab.

In Rhönort Poppenhausen ( Wasserkuppe) it is still called, be it " the eggs ausgeklappert ". With the slogan: "We have watched the Holy grave and ask for a mild Gab " occur altar boy ( and girls today ) to the front doors. In addition to original kind is now collected by the rattle boys for their arduous service money. It used to be common here, that the clerk of each of the twelve boys got an egg.

Also on the morning of Holy Saturday, a little speech is recited:

Women / women standing on the cake baking. Hooray, hooray, the cake rises.

At the Easter Vigil, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday so by pulling in Alsdorf (Eifel ) youth through the village streets with the following song ( in High German ):

Stand up stands on the holy grave, it is already at the time. It starts to dawn, the day is not far off. Up, up, dear ones, let the lazy lie, let them lie in their rest; we rush with pleasure the holy sepulcher to!

In a community in the Palatinate Forest, for example, heard at Karsamstagmorgen following manner:

Awake in the name Lord Jesus Christ The bright day before the eyes The bright day, watching over us God gift us a good day A good day, a happy time Blessed be God forever.

There are a variety of other regional sayings, partly in the local dialect. On the Lower Main, for example, called before the Good Friday liturgy:

We clippers and rattle on heaps, who in the Kärsch (church) wants that must run run.

In some areas of Central Franconia, there are also the following sayings:

We rattle the Angelic Salutation, must pray to every Catholic Christian, Ave Maria, gratia plena!

Listen, you people, this is the first of the ceremonies, ceremonies!

The second group then sings instead of " first " the "second and last".

When collecting eggs is often geratscht:

Public office, public office Hausfra (or Hausmo ) pack dei eggs zam! Zehne, twelve LSO mer ham!

In the Eifel it is customary to call instead of verses short words or phrases, or in the evening just to sing before the Easter matins. Morning is the reputation Morjensglock or Morjensglock loud ( morning bell rings ), at noon Mähdachsglock ( lunch bell), in the evening Nateglock or Owendsglock ( night or evening bell ) before the prayer on Good Friday and the Easter Vigil Mette calls you Zesaame (together). In the Voreifel is the ausgesungene loud cry of " There the bells ring for Morgen-/Mittags-/Abendstund! "

In the area around down around the children sing " Mettaach, Honnekraach, iwwermuer os Usterdaach " ( noon, Crowing, tomorrow is Easter), the next day " ... muer os type roof. "

In Rivenich they call: Meetisch ( noon); Betklock (evening) and in the morning and then each iwermuer either / or. muer is heilich Ustrdach.

Morning and evening for prayer meeting

Beetklock, Rosenstock, wenn'd nemme loud / ring then kläppert et yet [ Prayer bell, Rosenstock, when it will no longer ring then it kläppert yet! ]

Mittach, Mittach, Hohnekrach, Sunndach, Meendach is Easter roof, roof Easter [ Noon, Noon, crowing, Sunday and Monday is Ostertag ]

The resurrection of the young people go to Mass on Good Friday and on Easter Sunday in Saarland usually three times. You sing along: " For the first time " or " for the second time ." The third time, the verse reads as follows: "To haaf to haaf, who wants to de church, the laaf " ( to Hauf, Hauf, who wants to join the church, the walk ).

In other places in Saarland: " If all of your dear people ', and hurries up to the holy grave. " Overall, there are countless different Proverbs. Often these are different even within a town.

The Franconian Switzerland is called the morning at 5:30 clock to prayer:

Uremus, Uremus, now we schlöttern the English greeting, must perform every Christian.

Instruments

It especially following noise instruments are used:

• The ratchet, or Räppel, is a massive sound box made of wood (eg oak or maple ), which is about 30 cm long. By means of a crank with a roller cam is set in motion, whereby strips of wood (eg ash ) are raised which create the snap-back the characteristic noise, from which the name of the instrument derived.
• The rattle is a hammer, which - similar to a hand bell - strikes a wooden bar and this results in a rattling noise.
• The rasp, a motion by vigorously rotating instrument, in the rotation of a very thin wood plate over the teeth of a wooden gear buzzes.

The custom is to be found today in Bavaria, Austria, Luxembourg, the Palatinate, Rhön, on the Moselle, in the Saarland, in the Eifel, in the Rhineland, in Catholic areas of Baden-Württemberg and parts of North Rhine -Westphalia ( Waltrop and Gentiles ).

Even in the Christian cities in the Holy Land (Israel and the West Bank) there are such moves, but without ratcheting. There go the scouts with drums through the streets.

Rhineland and Westphalia

The tradition in the Rhineland, so in high churches and in Westphalia, especially in the Archdiocese of Paderborn is passed from parents to children. Some rattle boys and girls are an altar boy. Some have no rattling, but ratchets. These devices have been inherited from their fathers. Rattle is both Good Friday and also on Holy Saturday, and by 7 clock, 11:30 clock and 18 clock. Saturday mornings drag the kids with a wagon and a collection box from house to house and bring Easter greetings in the choir; they collect Easter eggs, candy and money. These items are then distributed to Holy Saturday from elders.

In Krefeld -Hüls the altar boy move into Holy Week with instruments similar to rasps by the municipality and collect eggs and money in return for work done during the past year services. The eggs are divided among the altar boys, the money is used for excursions and trips.

In Waltrop young people Good Friday and Saturday each draw by 6 clock, 12 clock and 18 clock with Räppeln only three times around the church and then through the streets of the community. Saturday afternoon the cents per kWh then go from door to door and collect eggs and sweets, as well as cash donations for the youth work. Before the Easter night's liturgy the interaction ringing is also replaced by Räpplern in the parish of St. Mary, this is done from the bell tower.

In Kaldauen and Braschoß the altar boy pull the entire Holy Week over by the municipality and collect eggs for the Agape after the Easter Vigil. These are boiled and dyed together on Good Friday.

Austria - Lower Austria - wine district

In the wine district in Lower Austria, the custom is still alive in almost all places and even in smaller towns. Only rarely here hand ratchet or rattling are used. Rather, the thrust ratchets are used. The first Ratchet on Holy Thursday evening or on Good Friday by 6 clock in the morning yet unadorned, then decorated mostly with tufts of boxwood branches and violet ribbons. The ratchets are pushed ahead. When a spell is to be recited, the stock shear stresses to the command during the marching his first ratchet over his head, the rest of the group does the same. If so, the last ratchet is silent, the spell is recited before the ratchets are left to the ground again and the Ratscherei continues. Geratscht is on Good Friday by 6 clock, 11 clock, ( ratchet We, we ratchet the suffering and death of our Lord Jesus Christ. ) 12 clock and 15 clock, "First and Zaumratschen " at every Mass (after the Erstläuten and the co- ringing ) and ratchet at 18:00 clock to prayer ( We, we ratchet to the English greeting, which must pray every Christian. 'Fall down, Fall down on your knees, pray one Our ​​Father and three Avemarie ). On Holy Saturday at 6, 11, 12 and clock again first and bridle for the service. On Holy Saturday the Ratscher then go from house to house and pick up their Ratscherlohn, which is then split equally among all the boys and girls.

Other meanings

• The term ratchets in Alemannic, Franconian and Bavarian dialects but also a term for a conversation. Here, specially the buying up the road taken housewives attributed to this activity, which are then to see the ratchets, often gossiping.

• In addition ratchets are the majority of the tool ratchet or ratchet (Tool), which is mainly used for loosening and tightening of bolted joints, where the name (also) is interpreted from the resulting sound when on the originally purely mechanical tool outgoing adapter holds and rotates the lever back in the (partial) loop without force.