Hoax in sheep.

For three days, everything is permitted - as culprits remain undetected: Fear-inspiring masks to disguise Buschos in sheepskin. The Carnival celebration in the south of Hungary is the largest in the country, tens of thousands of onlookers flock every year in the Danube city.

 

Mohács - they look frightening, the men with horned masks and wood strohgepolsterten sheep pelts. The Buschos come with so much fanfare, so that they Mohács even in 1687 the Turks after 150 years of domination again expelled from Hungary. So at least according to the legend. The ritual of Buschomaskenaufzugs has in Mohács near Pécs over the centuries. Has long been popular from the Mummenschanz a tourist attraction.

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Buschos in sheep: In the battle against the Turks and the winter

The six-Carnival celebration, which is Hungary's largest, annually attracts tens of thousands of onlookers in the southernmost city in the country on the right bank of the Danube, near the Croatian border. The Buschos accumulate initially on the small island Mohács. In the tube thicket swamp area of the Danube were the inhabitants of the city after the defeat against the Turks in 1526 found refuge.

How then put them on boats to the mainland. I'll continue on foot, on horseback and wagon. On its wooden skewer them weapons, but only by the women baked carnival fritters. Children as "Jankel" disguises itself Schabernack drive accompany them noisily. In long lines they draw from Kolo Square to the main square, where the Featured Votive Church in the Byzantine style of the two battles Mohács reminder. When the night anbricht is on the square a large fire breaks out on Shrove Tuesday and, finally, the winter in the form of a straw doll burned.

18 hours carving of a mask

"Everyone wants the biggest and strongest Buscho be," says Antal. Finally, they should be three days and can do what they want. All violations were allowed, Hungary adds the German added, because no one knows who is under the mask. Buschos would be honored. Antal itself no longer needs to struggle for recognition, he has it already. 1998, the now 50-year-old the title of "Volkskunstgewerbler".

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Buschomaske: willow wood and antlers

Antal is Buschomaskenschnitzer Englert and ensures itself that the tradition remains alive. He produced for collectors around the world. On Lake Constance, in Switzerland, Bulgaria and Croatia, where the Carnival mask similar processions take place, there needs. Also gifts for special people who visit the city, like the Pope, he had already made.

"I am a teacher by profession," he says. The mask carving was only his hobby, which he shares with 17 others. In the club there are strict regulations, what color and size of the masks or texture of the horns concerns. He needed about 18 hours for a mask-over Antal work load.

With twelve years ago, he started to carve. Despite his Swabian descent was even then his interest in the traditions, mythology and everyday life of the Mohács Schokazen great. Schokazen called the Croat minority. The carving was the most important to him "Schokaz mask Hauer," Matyas Kalkan, taught, says Antal, still full of admiration for the ancient Croats. Because the residents of Mohács are a colorful tribes. Today Hungary live here, Croats, Serbs and Germans.

Commemoration of battles against Turks

In Antal review workshop Visitors will also find ancient tools and documents of the former Maskenmacherei. Solo to be there, like a block of wood a Buschomaske emerges is an experience. Anyone who dares, may be placed in the traditional arts and crafts even try. Used the wood of the surrounding pastures, a soft material that is not for furniture or firewood was likely explains Antal. The antlers as an accessory, the master butcher from the gift.

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Even outside the "fifth season" is Mohács, based on a 900-year history back is not worth seeing. The ornate facades of old houses is to trade that with the steam navigation a transport and trading town. The favorable geographical location, the pleasant climate and fertile soils have always attracted people. The ethnic diversity of the inhabitants of the town owes its wealth of folk customs and crafts alive. A typical souvenir is about Mohács black pottery, which after drying in underground "Krateröfen" with strong qualmendem wood was burned.

The chestnut-lined road to Sátorhely lies in the nature reserve a memorial park for the two historic battles of Turks Mohács. The gate in bronze emulated bones symbolize the 28,000 fallen soldiers anderthalbstündigen the only battle of 1526. Holzschnitzkünstler created over 100 characters as the grave of the young King Ludwig II of Hungary and Bohemia, while only the 20-year died.

BUSCHOS OF Mohács

Exhibition Dates EnglertInformation workshop

The Buschomasken elevator in Mohács held on 19 to 24 February 2009 instead.

Permanent exhibition of the mask Bauer Mohács Filmtheater in Kossuth, carnival time in the various additional exhibitions.

The workshop of Buschomaskenschnitzers Antal Englert can be visited by appointment. He leads his crafts for groups from 5 to 40 persons, it is possible to try out.
7700 Mohács, Kígyó utca 7 / a
E-mail: englertantal@freemail.hu
Internet: www.englertantal.hu

Hungarian National Tourist Office
Accessible by germany tourism continues Hotline: 0900-1864 276 (61 cents / min.) Or free international phone to Hungary Info Phone: 00800-3600 00 00 (multilingual)
Internet: www.mohacs.hu (usually is some information in English), www.ungarn-tourismus.de

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