Pflaumentoffel

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Pflaumentoffel

Pflaumentoffel (word made from plum words and arsonist), also Zwetschgenmännla or Zwetschgenmännchen - baby food figurine made from prunes.

Pflaumentoffel is a bonfire-like figurine made of about 14 dried or baked plums, cookies, candy, wooden sticks, a painted paper ball as a head, a cardboard cylinder as a headpiece, a padded backpack and a paper ladder. The whole is wrapped in a metal foil. The figurines became known by selling them at the Dresden Christmas Market (Dresdner Striezelmarkt).

Historically, pflaumentoffle refers to seven or eight year old boys, mostly from orphanages, who, with the permission of the Saxon Elector of 1653, were cleaning. The work of the children was to crawl and clear the tall and narrow chimneys of bourgeois houses. This is one of the early examples of the state's consent to child labor. Pflaumentoffle are mentioned during the Christmas of 1801 as a man of roasted plums (Männlein aus Backpflaumen). In the 19th century, children with trays attached to the belly (called Striezelkinder) offered pflaumentoffle at Christmas fairs in Saxony and the Ore Mountains. Zwetschgenmännla at the market in Nuremberg

Zwetschgenmännla has traditionally been marketed at Christmas markets in Franconia and Bavaria. They are about 15 cm high and represent chimney sweeps, kings or fairytales. Nuremberg sells them at the Christmas market (Christkindlesmarkt). They make small figurines throughout the year, which are then sold at the Marktgäste. On the day of St. Nicholas was staged in 2000 with dancing on stage. Pflaumentoffle in folk culture, like the chimney sweep, are considered a symbol of happiness. They are also associated with St. Santa Claus, who in many parts of Europe gets into the house through a chimney. It is also believed that poorly behaved children resemble black people.

In the twentieth century, the word Pflaumentoffel gained informal, ironic and insulting meaning in the eastern part of the German linguistic area, meaning idiot or snowman, especially with regard to children.

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