Tag: Sommertag

Schtri, schtra, schtro – de Summerdag is do

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Technically these pictures were not taken in summer. But “summer’s day” is celebrated each year on Laetare Sunday, i.e. three weeks before Easter. After a spring parade through town a large snowman is burnt to represent the end of winter.

 

In years gone by the snowman was burnt in the town square. For years, the fire fighters have argued that this is not safe with so many people in the square, close to the burning effigy. Covid gave them the ammunition they needed and now the burning takes place in the gardens of the local castle. This picture is from ten years ago:

Sorry for the title. It’s local dialect.

Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Summer – Fire

Year after year

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Wrong season – but it’s a craft that is practiced every year in our region.  There is a parade in many towns on the mid-lent Sunday to welcome spring and burn an effigy of winter.  The children carry self-made “Sommertagsstecken”, sticks decorated with loops of colourful paper, a sweet “Bretzel” and a blown egg topped off with a twig of evergreen boxwood.  The sticks are made in schools by the children themselves or by the parents at meetings in the days prior to the parade.

A Photo a Week Challenge: Made by Hand