Talk:Weißwurstäquator

Untitled
Identifying the Danube River as the borderline of the Weißwurstäquator is not correct. This would leave out the northern part of Bavaria of the Weißwurst-eating area. Instead of the Danube, in Germany, the Main River is considered the border of the Weißwurstäquator. I have corrected this. :-)


 * Actually there are disputes about this. Many "orthodox" ;-) Bavarians actually do put the Weißwurstäquator on the Danube river while others see the Main as the Weißwurstäquator. Moreover, the Benrath Line actually has nothing to do with the Weißwurstäquator at all, so I shall remove that irritating reference from the article.  It's like having a "see also" link to German Grammar in an article about the Russian language. ;-) --Wutzofant 17:33, 3 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree, however many North Germans seem to believe the Benrath line to be the Weißwurstäquator (cf. [] ), as there exist Central German dialect remnants to the South of it. Therefore I put this variant as well. --Aenus 21 February 2009

Weißwurst is also eaten in Baden-Württemberg
It seems unfair to state that the river Danube coincides with the Weißwurstäquator, as this does not define the north-western edge of this border sufficiently.

In Bavaria, also the Franks do eat Weißwurst, so I don't see the point in accepting that some People from around the austrian border set the Weißwurstäquator onto the Danube ion their beliefs.

Weißwurst is also consumed widely throughout Baden-Württemberg, however, it is commonly accepted to be traditional Bavarian food.

The river "Main" is in regard to a more generalized view of German History the only possible "Weißwurstäquator", if you consider that the river Main divided the more or less independent southern german States from the imperial Preußen in late 19th century and even in first quarter of 20th century.

South German inhabitants have generally a more or less big problem in locating cities north of Main geographically, as have inhabitants of Northern Germany behind Main with south German cities.

Main is the Weißwurstäquator, not Danube. Franks eat Weißwurst, Baden-Württembergers eat Weißwurst... --155.56.68.221 11:36, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There are even Baden Württemberger Franks! They're often forgotten, but they're definitely there! (and they also do eat Weißwurst) --87.179.236.204 (talk) 17:49, 14 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I, and most references agree, but not the staunchest of Upper Bavarians. Therefore I put the Danube variant as well. --Aenus 21 February 2009


 * Me, as a bavarian, I always thought that the Weißwurschtäquator was the Danube. That is my definiton of the Äquator was that it devides the area where the Weißwurscht is eaten into two parts. The fact that the culture south of the Danube is significantly different than in the north (with the Franks) supportes this definition in my opinion. --193.52.94.5 (talk) 14:41, 21 March 2009 (UTC)


 * There are the North Bavarians between the Franconians and the South Bavarians. Born and grown up in the Upper Palatinate and now living in Franconia, I'm always regarded as Bavarian by confirmed Franconians. -- Sinnierer (talk) 19:49, 4 April 2009 (UTC)


 * For readers able to understand German, you may also take a look at the links I added to the bavarian Wikipedia Weißwurstäquator article, there are diffent definitions... --Cyfal (talk) 10:18, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Needs references
Even though this article about a German neologism survived AFD, it is still substandard with respect to WP:N, in that its only reference is still a German dictionary. Would those who like having an article on this word please find and add some references with substantial coverage from multiple reliable sources? Edison 20:10, 14 October 2007 (UTC)


 * With google, I only found this and this in English (beside blogs and forums). Seems that the concept is widely known in Germany, but not very common outside. --Cyfal (talk) 16:32, 15 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I put some additional references, English-language defintions of the term abound in the internet anyway ;-) --Aenus 21 February 2009


 * Thank you for your contribution with the various definitions and especially for exchanging the picture into a much better fitting one. I still modified your contribution somewhat because I think the term does not mainly refer to the language border but simultaneously to the cultural and language border, with the main focus on the first one. Also, I removed the http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/benrath-line/ link because it seems that its source is an older version of this wikipedia article. --Cyfal (talk) 13:18, 21 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you, I perfectly appreciate all of your changes. -- Aenus, 12:00, 22 February 2009
 * I removed the benrath line from the article altogether as it is just a(nother) line separating language regions in Germany, but it hasn't really anything to do with Weißwurstäquator itself.--Kmhkmh (talk) 09:05, 5 August 2010 (UTC)