Why are beer steins important to German Heritage?

Question

I am doing a speech on a cultural object that is important to our family heritage. Since i just found out more info about my background and it being german i was wondering how important a beer stein is in german culture?

Answer 1

Strictly speaking, a beer stein is not important to German culture (all by itself). What is important to the culture is how beer steins have been decorated in ways that reflect the German culture in general and local cultures in the specific.

Decorating beer steins to reflect local or general ideas causes them to become cultural object. Having steins decorated in ways that allow them to be identified to local areas preserves local values and local art forms.

Hope I helped!

Answer 2

When we talk about the origin of the word “stein”–we go back in times to Germany, where “stein” meant stone. Created for the consumption of beer, these German beer steins traditionally had a lid which could be opened and closed at ease.

Answer 3

As the Germans are very fond of drinking.Beer steins are as important to them.Yes as the German traditional attire beer steins are also part of German heritage.They are of great importance to them.you will always wind beer steins at German's home.

Answer 4

Germans are big beer drinkers. They are also big in porcelain. Put the two together and you have the porcelain beer stein. They are very good craftsmen and have very intricate designs on their products.

This site has a history of the beer stein. It's very informative and probably just what you need for your speech.

www.beerstein.net/
articles/bsb-1.htm