As of: February 12, 2024, 11:59 a.m
By: Klaus Kuhn
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Illustrious team: the begging couple Julia Bohus and Moritz Zink (front) with (from left) Franz Ganslmaier, Ingrid Reiter, Maria Stürzl, Hans Egger, Elisabeth Kreuzeder, Hermine Stöckl, Anita Zink, Werner Kalinetz and Michael Gruber.
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The break has been long enough since 2019, now it's high time for the begging wedding in Wartenberg: It will be the 19th edition tomorrow, Shrove Tuesday, after this tradition was founded in 1980.
Wartenberg – In order to be able to filter out these two numbers, it took the active participants at the bread soup dinner on Nonsense Thursday quite a while.
It was Moritz Zink who was able to look up the data and he had a particular interest in it.
He is the bridegroom.
With the best will in the world, the 27-year-old son of Narrhalla President Anita Zink couldn't say how long he had been there.
He's always been running along.
This is what he has in common with his “bride”: Julia Bohus didn’t know the exact answer to the question either.
And the dream couple from Shrove Tuesday has something else in common: Both were asked by the wedding organizer Hirangl (President Anita Zink) and didn't have to think long.
“It's an honor,” said the dashing bride, who perhaps, without knowing it, is giving an indication of the signs of erosion in the Catholic Church through her role, as she has thoroughly enjoyed the life of a nun in the “Convent of the Completely Innocent Moos Sisters”. full and, to the loud cheers of the congregation, she takes off her nun's robe to introduce herself as a bride to Court Marshal Michael Gruber.
And how: “Everything is still there,” she commented on her external appearance.
“Virgin and lovable, as befits a nun”: This was the court marshal’s first overall impression of Clementine Genoveva Merlinde, who is now being accompanied in a procession from Fichtenstrasse with her groom Gaudenz Holzscheidl to the market square, where the registrar Hingerl ( Gruber) will then tell the whole story – “otherwise no one will come to the wedding”.
But he already revealed this much: It happened on the church tower, where the carpenter was busy with the new belfry.
From there he had a wonderful view of the monastery garden, which was still cultivated by the future bride, and of the woman he then adored: “Um a Hoor waar er obagfoin!”
He had to get down from the tower to have a snack, and that's when they got closer.
“And neither the monastery nor age could stop our shared happiness.” After the loss of staff in the convent, the “completely innocent Moos Sisters” may need the spiritual support of Brother Johannes (Hans Egger) more than usual, and it will be interesting to see how that will happen There will be no “ecclesiastical blessing” for the renegade monastery sister.
Of course, the bride was in the monastery for 50 years without a background: she comes from a poor background and her parents had no way of supporting her.
This means that the legend of the begging wedding was true again, and it will be like it was last in 2019: “All of the slovenly relatives and the usual hustle and bustle are invited to take part in the pageant and to keep the mood high on the market square afterwards.” Gruber: “ The procession is supposed to start marching exactly at “three o’clock”.
To ensure that no one overdoes it, the “brisk and dashing” gendarmerie Marie Schamerl (Ingrid Reiter), whom the court marshal attested to have feared assertiveness at the introduction: “The golden helmet goes wonderfully with her golden hair.”
The parade is made up, among other things, by Henaheisl and the “ladderless people” (Gruber), who no longer have one.
But also a whole series of carriages, whereby the bride and groom will even have a horse-drawn carriage by Werner Kalinetz.
After the actual marriage, in which council clerk Stiftl (Franz Ganslmaier) will play an important role, the celebration will last until perhaps 10 p.m., if the weather somehow cooperates, Gruber announced.
The traditional costumers have savory items for tasting, the cultural market is responsible for the sweet things.
The horticultural association is already taking care of the participants on the way.
The brass band Anton Gerbl from Holzland will play, DJ Werner will play.