Hobby horse (toy)

The hobby-horse is from a stick ( stick ) and a horse's head existing children's toys. In a figurative sense it means so much as a hobby. In English, it is called a hobbyhorse or shortly hobby, where both latter meaning and the Germanized "hobby" is derived.

History

As a children's toy, the hobby-horse in the middle ages is common: the oldest plastic hobbyhorse for example, the St. Annen Museum in Lübeck is located in a group of children on the altar of Gertrude Brotherhood of carrier, built around 1509 in the vicinity of Woodcarver Henning von der Heyde. The hobby as a " favorite activity ", however only since 1763 has been in use by the Roman translation of " Tristram Shandy " by Laurence Sterne.

Use

Krünitz writes in his 242- volume encyclopedia ( 1773-1858 ) for use of this toy:

In Osnabrück, the hobby-horse riding for children takes place every year from 25 October 1953. With the Peace of Westphalia hard to end the Thirty Years' War is reminiscent of the 1648 closed in Osnabrück and Münster. For the first time, the hobby-horse riding in Osnabrück in 1948 organized.

When Neuburg Castle Festival in Neuburg an der Donau hobby horses in the so-called Steckenreiter dance are used, a spectacle to commemorate the wedding of Count Palatine Otto Heinrich and Princess Susanna of Bavaria on October 16, 1529 on the coat of arms of Neuburg an der Donau are two tappets children -. Both Prince and later Prince Otto Heinrich and Philip - see.

Music

The composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) composed a piano piece, which he called " Knight of the hobby-horse ". It is part of his cycle Kinderszenen, Op 15 (1838 ), on whose work he wrote jokingly to his fiancée Clara " [ ... ] it was neat to me like the wing dress ". The small piano composition mimics onomatopoeic after the child's hopping by hobbyhorse by 3 /4 time is emphasized by the right hand throughout and against the natural beat on the 3rd beat. Instead of the normal gravity on one is an eighth rest followed by a melodic, repeated throughout the play rhythmically unchanged, dotted three-note motif. As Votragsbezeichnung Schumann wrote " With humor ".

Gallery

A hobby horse today in use

Hobbyhorse rider plastic in Osnabrück

Simplest form of Plug horse drawn by Wilhelm Busch

Hobbyhorse

Hobbyhorse in Rococo, Engraving by Daniel Chodowiecke