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German costume acorns, leaves, hearts and bells were established in the early fifteenth century There may be some early packets that had 52 cards, but at a stage early German standard pack enough came consist of 48 cards Each costume had a king superior grip Obermann with the top costume symbol, a lower intake Untermann with the suit symbol at the bottom, ten, sometimes presented as a banner, and additional nine figures down two we can assume that this complete package of the card 48 has been used for various games, but the main of which we have information is Karn FFEL.
When the ace of French and Italian packages was promoted to the highest card in many games, the same thing happened to two or deuce Daus German squad later, several games have become popular in which the packet was reduced to 36, 32 or fewer cards, omitting what are now the lowest numbers 3, 4, 5, sometimes 6, and so on Gosh, now isolated as the highest card, came to be regarded by most people like an ace, even if he has two suitmarks in southern Germany and Austria, it is often known as Sau sow.
German suited cards are still the main type of cards used in many parts of central Europe some extent each country or region has its own variant of the model with significantly different designs The main places where German suited cards are now used the following please follow the links to the country pages for details of the games played.
Germany German suited cards are commonly used in the provinces of South and East - Bavaria, W rttemberg, Saxony and Thuringia There are several regional patterns of slightly different appearance in the north and west of the country, German costumes been almost entirely replaced by the French suited cards.
Austria suited cards are more widespread in the west; east and especially in Vienna, French suited cards are more common German suited cards in Austria are generally of William Tell model, in which the maps show the image of the characters in William Tell legend and aces represent the four seasons of the year These are sold as Doppeldeutsche Karten - double because, like most modern cards, they are two heads - the model is the same every This end is in contrast to Einfachdeutsche Karten in which one model occupies the entire length This card also confusingly known as the Salzburg model, but they are used mainly in the mountainous western provinces of Vorarlberg and Tyrol, and the Jass cards, because in Vorarlberg, they are used to play Jass but they look quite different maps to play the same games in Switzerland.
Czech Republic The German suitable pack 32 card is in general use There are two single attractive designs headed bohemian pattern and archaic looking, which is popular in Bohemia and sold as HRAC karty jednohlav and dual head HRAC karty dvouhlav - William Tell model - which is more popular in Moravia.
Hungary Slovakia Slovenia Croatia In all these countries, and in the Hungarian-speaking regions of Romania, 32 William Tell card pack is generally used in this region, they are often known Hungarian Magyar kártya cards.
Italy In the German-speaking region of South Tyrol, one German suited cards headed the Salzburg model called are used.
Poland In the southern province of Silesia formerly German, a 32-pack of German suited cards design once used in Prussia is still used for playing Skat.
The characters depicted in Kings, overs and unders are the legend of the 15th century Wilhelm Tell, who is believed to have led the Swiss resistance against Austrian rule According to legend, he was forced to shoot an arrow into an apple off his head the son specifically, the characters are the part of Wilhelm Tell written by Friedrich Schiller in 1804 You can read this piece.
The playing cards with these characters have become popular at the time of the 1848 revolutions, probably because of the parallels with the uprising against the Habsburg Empire cards are used primarily in Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania, but are not known in Switzerland, even if the characters on them are Swiss.
In North America, the German suited cards can be obtained from Lair TaroBear.
This page is maintained by John McLeod John McLeod, 2001, 2004, 2010 Last updated March 26, 2010.
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