Gret Schell (Carnival)
Gret Schell comes alive once a year: on the Monday of Carnival Week. Accompanied by seven jesters, she carries her drunken husband home through the old town in a pannier on her back.
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Reisezentrum Zug
Bahnhofplatz
6304 Zug
Tel. +41 (0)41 723 68 00
Fax +41 (0)41 723 68 10
tourism@zug.ch
www.zug-tourismus.ch
The children shout out "Gret Schellebey" and catch the handfuls of sweets thrown to them. The Carpenters', Turners' and Coopers' Guilds keep this custom alive, which is probably more a good tale than a true story, as it is also found in a similar form in France and Germany.
Drinking water used to be a very real problem in earlier times. Wells were the most important water dispensers, and the drinking water came directly out of the pipes. Animals drank from the main trough and the washing was then done in the overflow-trough at the side. To wash oneself one had to go to the house which stands to the north of the present Greth Schell Well, and which was originally the bathhouse. The water problem was only solved in the 19th century, when a meeting of the local population in 1878 agreed to the formation of a limited company, out of which Waterworks Zug Ltd (WWZ) grew.
Drinking water used to be a very real problem in earlier times. Wells were the most important water dispensers, and the drinking water came directly out of the pipes. Animals drank from the main trough and the washing was then done in the overflow-trough at the side. To wash oneself one had to go to the house which stands to the north of the present Greth Schell Well, and which was originally the bathhouse. The water problem was only solved in the 19th century, when a meeting of the local population in 1878 agreed to the formation of a limited company, out of which Waterworks Zug Ltd (WWZ) grew.