Turamichele

Turamichele ( High German: Tower -Michael ) is the name of a mechanical figure in the game Perlachturm in the old town of Augsburg. It shows the Archangel Michael fighting with the devil. The Turamichele is only once a year - set in motion - on the days around September 29, the Michaelitag. On these days, the wooden St. Michael appears 10 to 18 clock every hour on the bottom, to mark the occasion with a flower-filled window of Perlachturm tower and stands in time with the chimes with a lance on the lying at his feet Satan.

History of Turamichele

The Turamichele was first mentioned in writing in a family chronicle of 1616. However, the original figure game should have been created the Younger and the watchmaker George Marquart already in 1526 by the sculptor Christof Murmann. After the incorporation of the imperial city of Augsburg in the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806, the annual custom was banned by the Bavarian government, as it held the spectacle for silly and in the spirit of the Enlightenment unworthy. However, an important role was played well also, that the Augsburg the devil figure equated with the new and unpopular government in Munich, which one would like to have added to the corresponding lances. It was not until 1822 Turamichele ban was repealed.

After the Second World War and the destruction of the historical figure of the game allowed in 1946, the American occupation forces, (initially with two actors on a wooden platform on Perlachturm ) continue the Turamichele custom. A new wooden figure group was donated in 1949 by the Augsburg Malzfabrikanten Ernst Gebler and manufactured by the sculptor Karl Hoefelmayr from Kempten.

Turamichele hard

Once the Michaelitag was not only mandatory holiday, but also a popular date for ongoing rental, lease or interest payments, Apartment moving and changing jobs. The following text in the Augsburg dialect on a postcard from 1899 indicates:

All ' Johr, if it comes Thuramichele, Do look forward to the children. But with so many ältre Leut, Do isch dia Freud ' fei ' minder: Do pulling ma ' from; do pulls ma ' ei '. The master of the house sees ma ' grinsa. Dös ka ' oim but koi Freud ' net was ' Dös Zieha dos and interest rate risk.

Today, the urban Turamichele hard at the Augsburg Town Hall Square has become a big children's party with colorful activities around the Turamichele custom. Hourly countless adults and children gather before Perlachturm and eagerly awaiting the appearance of St. Michael's character to be counted, according to the beat of the hour strikes, the lances of the Archangel. Traditionally, children have this in a balloon flight competition balloons with attached " Peace of Augsburg regards" ascend into heaven. Meanwhile, there 's even a " Turamichele Song ", which is often sung on the occasion of the feast of the Augsburg school children:

The Turamichl, the Turamichl that gives the devil a lot of stitch length The Turamichl, the Turamichl that gives the devil a lot of stitch length Look at the times Michl as the Michl can stitch length The Turamichl, the Turamichl that gives the devil a lot of stitch length

Four ... more, ever shorter stanzas

' S Duramichele ,' s Duramichele, of giving the Deifele many Stichele ' S Duramichele ,' s Duramichele, of giving the Deifele many Stichele Looks calibration times of Michle aaa as the Michele Stichele kaaa ' S Duramichele ,' s Duramichele, of giving the Deifele many Stichele

Four ... more, ever shorter stanzas

The city of Augsburg on whether they may also Augsburger partner cities could integrate into this hard, perhaps under the theme " Global Peace Festival" in the future and wants to pick up on this idea in future contacts with its partner cities.