Strolling

A walk ( in the 15th century by Italian spaziare, spatially spread ',' indulge ' borrowed ) is going ( " Ambulieren ", " stroll ", " promenading " ) to pass the time and for the edification.

You can walk as a flaneur or window shopping, for example, in the woods, in parks or along the bank, but also in business areas of the city. Walks can of relaxation, recreation, or observing and thoughtful leisure serve. People also go for the sunshine, the fresh air, exercise and ' walk change of scenery. A walking stick relieved and elated walking.

Historical

The origin of the walk is the aristocratic " stroll " in Baroque gardens and parks, later a social component to ( socialize, undisturbed conversations ). The development of parks or promenades is directly related to the walk. Under the Civil he has become fashionable in the 18th century. As hot he was at certain times very common in Germany - so the Easter walk (cf. Goethe's Faust I) or Whit walk. When Sunday, family walk 'could be quite distressing for children whose leisurely pace. Non-Europeans with other traditions of leisure keep the walk often for a useless employment.

Some places with tourist interest, spas and resorts usually have walkways on which you walk ( or stroll promenading ). Specifically for this purpose trails were created in spas, the walks were called. The slow walking was an important part of the drinking cure.

Walks are sometimes made ​​in order to avoid the interception by third parties: During private conversations can be relatively easily intercepted if the interlocutors sit, this is more difficult when walking.

The walk in literature and the visual arts

A famous Walker was Goethe ( I went in the woods | so for me there, | and nothing to look for, | that was my meaning. ). At his preferred resting bench in Frankfurt City Forest of Goethe tower was built later.

Literary significance was walk through Friedrich Schiller's Elegy ( so the original title ), in which Schiller develops its own nature and philosophy of history on the basis of observation and contemplation of the uphill pull ends. The poem concludes with the liberating Line And the sun of Homer, see! she smiles even us. For example, one such was still the usual giant walk the romantic paintings of Caspar David Friedrich (see left figure).

A widely-read travel story of the passionate and watching strong world through Wanderers Johann Gottfried Seume was his walk to Syracuse in 1802. The title is, however, ironic to understand because it is Seumes travel just not a casual stroll, but a nearly one-year, partly dangerous hike acted.

Even the walk, for example, Eichendorff ( | o beautiful green forest, | you my pleasure and pains | O valleys far, o heights, andächt'ger stay) and have given Adalbert Stifter ( The Forest Walker ) in their works a lot of space. Franz Kafka wrote, inter alia, a parable entitled The sudden walk and processed the subject of the walk in a chapter of his work Description of a Struggle. Robert Walser was an avid walker and processed it in his prose work The walk.

The German painter Carl Spitzweg painted mid 19th century repeatedly families on a Sunday stroll. See above and the painting The Walk by Pierre -Auguste Renoir; It shows a woman with two children in their Sunday clothes.

Promenadology

The established at the University of Kassel Promenadology advocates slow perception - a sunken cultural heritage.

Phrase

The phrase after a successful battle, task or test That was a walk to express that it represented an easily manageable affair. Or vice versa That is not a walk, about a politician says before an election.

Dinner walk

The dinner walk is a colloquial term for moderate physical activity - running - in the fresh air after eating. He often found Sunday after visiting restaurants and then especially in the upper age many advocates. Purpose of the digestive walk is a suggestion of intestinal activity. The movement supports the peristalsis of the digestive tract. According to the extendability of a meal of popularly recommends: After dinner you shall rest or do a thousand steps. The ancient Romans were already thinking in the same way: Post CENAM recreabis vel mille passus meabis.