Knocking

Klopfan was originally the name of the popular greetings and hymns spoken in the south of Germany, especially in Franconia, since the Middle Ages. This is done in the so-called "Klippeltelnächten" H. in the nights of the 2nd to 4th Advent Sunday and the New Year's Eve, from door to door and knocking.

The Klopfan verses consist of four to ten lines in pairs, sometimes also as a change, and are sometimes called out of the Stegreif. Their content is funny, personal allusions and sometimes fun.

In the 15th century the Klopfan was established by the masters as a literary genre, For example by Hans Rosenplüt and Hans Folz. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Wikisource: Klopf an - Article of the 4th edition of Meyers Konversations-Lexikon

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