23: Seven Swabians / Sieben Schwaben

Seven Swabians / Sieben Schwaben

The wind vane on the pavillon anex of the yellow house, finally to be enjoyed from a close by public trail. / Die Wetterfahne am Vorbau von Gelben Haus, endlich kann man die von einem oeffentlichen Fussweg aus bewundern.

5 comments so far...

Fizgig May 29, 2017, 03:43 PM

I wonder what crazy fairytale that's supposed to depict...??... And why a group of people would want to kill a bunny begging for its life?

Hehe.... Interesting find =)

Sonja May 30, 2017, 06:25 AM

Someone hearing it rustle at night and thinking the long-eared rodent is a mighty dragon of course....
It's a regional/ethnic slur or extended joke about germans from the south-west that was indeed picked up by the brothers Grimm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Swabians
The native swabians seem to think it's a great marketing plot and toy with it. There are many better hotels and restaurants for regional fare named "Sieben Schwaben". ;o)

remmeltmojet May 30, 2017, 06:46 AM

In the past, the Grimms triggered fantasy and exaggeration; Today we have the social media to do the same. To be sensitive to rumours is not a swabian privilige.

Sonja May 30, 2017, 02:37 PM

After the whole tale (much older than the Grimms, Kirchhof already wrote down a version in the 1550s) , the swabians are not only a cowardly and miserly bunch but also feeling extremely clever and resourceful whilst being rather dimwitted. Of course, there is no people in the world that fits such a description as a whole, or it would have gone extinct since... ;o)

It is still not that easy to even define a swabian as such locally. To some of the german speaking swiss populace "Schwab" means everyone speaking german that lives further north and outside the alps, much like the austrian concept of a "Piefke"and the bavarian of a "Preiss".

For an other theory mostly heared in swabia, the only genetically pure offspring of the 7 is a certain political expat in bruxelles whose name starts with an umlaut-- LOL