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Heeker Schlöffkenkerl Statue

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Heeker Schlöffkenkerl Statue

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Heeker Schlöffkenkerl Statue

Name: Heeker Schlöffkenkerl Statue
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Location: Heek, Kreis Borken, Münster District, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

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🇺🇦Uwe 🏃‍♂️1098🏍

June 19, 2022

The idea of erecting a monument to the "Heeker Schlöffkenkerl" was old. It was approved on September 29, 2000.
Although the old tradition "Heeker Schlöffken" has been growing for many decades every year or more
is celebrated less intensively, but for many Heekern the actual origin of this is
Customs basically hardly known. Most probably know from oral tradition that sometime in the last century a farmhand was killed at carnival
should have been, and has been held in Heek ever since
Carnival "Schlöffken" celebrates, but only a few know more about this ---
Source: google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwi7rIz-8Ln4AhUfm_0HHTEKAnQQFnoECAgQAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hsv-heek.de%2Fmodule%2Ffiledownload% 2FHistory_Heeker_Schl_ffken.PDF&usg=AOvVaw3jzxSPeU8xjFkvdQl6XqIU

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July 9, 2023

The Heeker Schlöffkenkerl is right next to the Eppingschen Hof at the large free car park in the center of Heek. The story is explained on an information board right next to it.

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