The Brünig-Napf-Reuss line forms a geographical boundary in traditional Swiss culture (Kulturgrenze). Running from the Brünig Pass along the Napf region to the Reuss (which joins the Aare at Brugg), it partly separates western (Bernese German) and eastern (Zurich German) varieties of High Alemannic, although some places east of the line belong to the western dialect group (Schwyz, Zug). The line runs across the cantons of Lucerne and Aargau.
Alemannia and Burgundy, circa AD 1000. The Brünig-Napf-Reuss line runs approximately between Alemannia (orange) and Argovia (striated, disputed territory).
The concept was first proposed by Richard Weiss in 1947, and it reflects the cultural situation in Switzerland as established by ethnographic field work during the early 20th century.[1] Some historians and ethnographers argued that this cultural boundary is of greater importance historically than the French-German language boundary (the Röstigraben), even though it is widely admitted that the "line" doesn't form a sharp division but especially in its northern part is "fanning out" into a gradient.
The line coincides, for example, with the traditional distribution of Simmental Cattle (west) vs. Braunvieh (east), and with the traditional distribution of French vs. German playing cards.[2] The line also corresponds to the frontline during the Swiss peasant war of 1653. The High Alemannic regions west of the line correspond to medieval Argovia, the marches between Burgundy and Alemannia.
^Alan Frei, "Der Atlas der Schweizerischen Volkskunde", Vereintes Wissen. Die Volkskunde und ihre gesellschaftliche Verankerung. Ein Buch zum 100. Geburtstag der Sektion Basel der Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde eds. Franziska Schürch, Sabine Eggmann, Marius Risi, 2010, 47f.
^Günter Wiegelmann , Theoretische Konzepte der europäischen Ethnologie: Diskussionen um Regeln und Modelle (1991), p. 165
SourcesEdit
Helge Gerndt, "Alltagskultur im Alpenraum: regionale Differenzierungen" in Kulturwissenschaft im Zeitalter der Globalisierung (2002), pp. 51-56.
Richard Weiss, "Die Brünig-Napf-Reuss-Linie als Kulturgrenze zwischen Ost- und West-Schweiz auf Volkskundlichen Karten", Geographica Helvetica 2 (1947), 153-175.
A Hager, "Die 'Brünig-Napf-Reuss-Linie' von Richard Weis und die Verteilung der Rinderrassen in der Schweiz", Schweizer Volkskunde 72 (1982), 36-41.
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