GERMANY ~ Till Eulenspiegel - Coal Market - Brunswick ~

... One more pretty view of this wanderer and medieval prankster... if interested I wrote more about him  HERE... it shows the Till Eulenspiegel carillon in the attic of the building at Kohlmarkt 10 (dating from 1758)... the "Eulenspiegel-Haus", where the figure of the fool appears three times a day above the carillon and holds up the mirror to the people... with great First Day Special Postmark celebrating the 150th anniversary of Max and Moritz... also two mischievous little boys... just like Eulenspiegel... so I can consider this as a matching postmark😉... Big Thanks Dustin!  (✿ ♥‿♥)

The Coal Market (Kohlmarkt) was first documented in 1342, but likely predates that by several centuries. When Braunschweig was established in the 10thC, what is presently the Coal Market was one of its first settlements. Although its face has changed over the centuries, it has always remained a focal part of the city.

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(01-07-2019)

GERMANY ~ Till Eulenspiegel Monument - Kneitlingen ~

... Nice memorial of the prankster Till Eulenspiegel, depicted with owl and mirror in his birthplace... read more about him HERE... with great special World Post Day postmark and tourist cachets from Kneitlingen, where Eulenspiegel was born, and Ampleben, where he was baptised... Thanks a lot Dustin!【ツ】 

Sculports: Theo Schmidt-Reindahl & Stephan Suttka (1945)

Inscription:

HIER KAM ZUR WELTTILLEULENSPIEGEL
NARR SCHALK...
EIN MENSCH

 

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(01-07-2019)

The 75th Anniversary of the Allied Military Government Stamps 

(Issued 03-09-2020)

GERMANY ~ Till Eulenspiegel Museum - Schöppenstedt ~

... This museum pays tribute to Till Eulenspiegel a fascinating folk character, possibly a real person, from the Middle Ages... the story soon became popular all over Europe... he was a villain in German folklore but a jester and freedom fighter in Flemish literature... a practical joker and many of his escapades are satires on period politics... story books about him were banned by the catholic church at one time... the museum has a very extensive Eulenspiegel archive with around 3,000 volumes of literature... you can see old Eulenspiegel prints, posters, graphics, sculptures and historical documents... there are also special events and temporary exhibitions... the museum has around 8,000 visitors annually... with one stamp of the 32 "Recreational stamp offices" found in the northern Harz foreland... and postmarked on World Postcard Day👍... Thanks a lot Dustin!【ツ】 

According to the chapbook, Eulenspiegel was born in Kneitlingen near Brunswick around 1300. As a vagrant, he travelled through the Holy Roman Empire, especially Northern Germany, but also the Low Countries, Bohemia, and Italy. He is said to have died in Mölln, Schleswig-Holstein, near Lübeck and Hamburg, of the Black Death in 1350.

His name translates to "owl mirror", and the frontispiece of the 1515 chapbook, as well as his alleged tombstone in Mölln, display the name in rebus writing by an owl and a hand mirror. 

The Legend of Thyl Ulenspiegel and Lamme Goedzak by Charles De Coster (1867) transfers the character to the context of the Reformation and the Dutch Revolt. The Ulenspiegel (modern Dutch: Tijl Uilenspiegel) from this novel became a symbol of the Flemish Movement.

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 (01-07-2019)