"Blau machen" with Luise Meyer

Let the wife of the dyer Ruprecht-Daniel Meyer guide you through Stade’s historic town streets in an amusing and charming way. The tour centres around proverbs from the Middle Ages, many of which are still used in everyday life today.

Among other things, you will learn where “schmutzige Wäsche gewaschen wurde”, dirty laundry was washed in Stade in the past, what the “weißes Gold”, white gold in the Hanseatic city was all about, who became “steinreich”, filthy rich and where people lived who were “arm wie eine Kirchenmaus”, poor as a church mouse.

After the guide named “Ross und Reiter” (horse and rider) but you were still “auf dem Holzweg” (on the wooden path), will you “die Kurve kratzen” (scratch the curve) or “das Pferd von hinten aufzäumen” (put the bridle on the horse from behind).

Or in other words: After the tour guide called a spade a spade but you were still barking up the wrong tree, will you just turn the corner or put the cart before the horse.