Vlöggeln

Vlöggeln (at Dale : vlöggelen) is an Easter tradition in the Twente Ootmarsum in the Dutch province of Overijssel .

The vlöggeln for the Roman Catholics from Ootmarsum part of the festivities surrounding Easter. It takes place on Easter Sunday and on Easter Monday repeated. This Sunday begins in Ootmarsum with a tour around the Catholic Church by the Poaskearls, Easter Committee comprising eight Catholic, single men, who also do not intend to marry in the next four years. On this tour around the church, the Tour to the Wheme, the two Easter songs are sung. Later in the afternoon begins the actual vlöggeln. The locals and tourists come together than at the 'boaken "the pyre on the Easter Camp. This is a meadow just outside the town. Here waiting for the Poaskerels. Around five o'clock the Poaskerels walk around the 'boaken. Then they shake hands and walk them singing down toward the center. [1]

This walk inhabitants of Ootmarsum and other attendees with the Poaskearls first in a string of hand-in-hand through the town, through houses and cafes, and into the marketplace, with alternating two Easter songs, Christ has broken teeth and Allelujah, the glad sound, sung. The first, oldest Poaskearl while smoking a cigar tradition. At the end the children be raised three times in the market square, which also is called three times "hooray". This lift symbolizing the resurrection of Jesus Christ. The whole trip takes about an hour. On Easter Sunday there then spend the evening at half past nine the Easter fire involving the Poaskearls be present.

The earliest mention of the vlöggeln stems from an edition of the Overijssel Almanak for Antiquity and Letters in 1840 . [2] Perhaps the use is much older, but there are as yet no evidence was found. A generally accepted theory behind the underlying meaning of the vlöggeln therefore does not exist.

In nearby Denekamp Easter is also traditionally celebrated with the Easter task retrieve or Easter duty towing.