Kerwestrauß

Aufgenommen von michael vogel.

Kerwestrauß. The sound of yelling on friday night was the straußjugend finishing the kerwestrauß pole. Während der kerwe 2012 in vogelbach bei bruchmühlbach miesau befestigt die straußjugend den kerwestrauß am sportheim des sc vogelbach 1926. The municipality lies in the steinalb valley in the western palatinate the municipal area is 72 7 wooded. The following clubs exist in haschbach am remigiusberg. This is then fixed onto an inn and then comes the kerwepredigt kermis sermon in which the kerwepfarrer kermis pastor reads out a rhyming humorous account of the year s happenings. On sunday afternoon the village youth carry a tree decorated with colourful streamers the kerwestrauß kermis bouquet through the village. Running alongside the brook is a village bypass.

The pole is called the kerwestraß. If you have something and you don t know what it is this is the place for you to search for an answer. Most of our german friends that are fluent in english are not from this part of germany so they didn t have many answers about the local customs such as the kerwestrauß care vay stras which look like giant plumes or feather dusters on the villages central buildings. The kerwe is an opportunity for the people of a town to celebrate the fortunes of the previous year. Niederalben lies at an elevation of between 180 and 250 m above sea level on the steinalb s left bank. Through speeches poems parades and festival each town and village comes together to enjoy each other s company one last time before fall the temperatures drop with the winter winds not far behind. In the same vein walk into westrich museum in the heart of ramstein on miesenbacher strasse 1 to find out what the german words kerwestrauß and tante emma laden stand for.

Notice the wedding boxes and the underwear worn by a german soldier on his return from a russian prison in 1946. This brook empties into the glan only a few hundred metres downstream from the village.