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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 1504296, member: 39&quot;]But that design makes a lot of sense. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> You may know that the Thirty Years War ended in 1648 (Westphalian Peace) but that various negotiations and treaties followed. Well, legend has it that, shortly before the Osnabrück agreement was signed, several boys appeared in front of the city hall, on their hobby horses, and that amused the delegations.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Osnabrück, one of the two Westphalian Peace cities, they have an annual Steckenpferdreiten (hobby horse riding) parade, mostly with fourth graders. The first parade was in 1948, fairly shortly after WW2 and on the 300th anniversary of the 1648 peace.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of the negotiations that followed the basic peace agreement were in Nürnberg, in 1649-50. Now whether little boys approached Emperor Ferdinand&#039;s delegation or not ... hard to tell. But it seems they asked the delegation, particularly Piccolomini, for a peace souvenir, and were &quot;awarded&quot; such hobby horse klippes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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