The word Stenz originates from "moving latin" and designates the knotigen, rotated moving stick of the driving craftsman, who is particularly distorted by a parasitic Schlingpflanze, the Geissblatt, during growth. It serves for comfortable moving over stick and stone, for self-defense or for many other activities, which the craftsman on three or of several years roll meet.

In the Ruhr district, in particular in meals, the term is used "Stenz "as impact word. It is to compare with the well-known "Prost ". Used as derived word colloquially the verb "stenzen ", in order to invite for example someone on a beer. "We go stenzen "variable "I a LOD you on a Stenz ". In the Middle Franconian area also as greeting word, the origins of this custom are used lie to a large extent in the dark.

In Upper Bavaria the Stenz is a name for a special species of the kind man, who obeys the Biblical order - "are fruitful and mehret you" - in all its seriousness. Like that it is not primitive Egomane, but a man of world with elegance and style, which would like to make the women in its charming and kind lucky - as much as possible. Often it bends to overrate however in addition its abilities in this connection. As a "woman hero" to designate the Bavarian Stenz would reject itself naturally approximately.

Raineat of you Helmut Dietl is to have defined the Stenz as follows:

Of somewhat windy elegance, which dominant in each case mode always vorausstolzierend, the Stenz has a step the care of its main hair as well as the care of its shoes - from which it possesses innumerable - to ritual actions develops. It attaches importance to Umgangsformen, and/or what it regards as it, and creates it not to lose sight of the highest radiant emittance goal thereby: to be leave always cool and.

Beyond the Bavarian borders admits became the expression Stenz with in the meantime legendary Fernsehsehserie "Monaco Franze - the eternal Stenz" with that in the meantime the deceased actors Helmut Fischer in the main role. For Nichtkundige it is to be pointed out here that "Monaco" means not that small principality to the Riviera, but the Italian word for the Bavarian state capital Munich is.

In the Swiss colloquial language, particularly in the area Zurich, one uses the designation Stenz also for a or a man, which moves in this environment and dresses corresponding or takes away. Also in German German the expression introduction holds, particularly in the German Dream camp is common it.

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