Ramsen im Höfli in Bad Zurzach

"Ramsen" is an age-old tradition. Unfortunately, only a few restaurants still uphold this tradition - and the Höfli is of course one of them!

What is Ramsen?
Ramsen is a game played with Jass cards. The game is played in inns, but only during the Old Year's week and mostly in the Emmental, Oberaargau, Bernese Oberland, Solothurn or Fribourg.
The winner receives a Ramser present (in our Höfli a wreath of plaited bread, a sausage or a glass of wine) and the game is played according to the Jass rules, which can vary from place to place.

A little historical excursion
The word ramsen comes from the French ramas, ensemble de choses sans valeur, which means a heap of worthless things. However, the word hardly appears in today's dictionaries. In German, the word Ramsch goes back to the same French term. The French verb ramasser means to laboriously bring something together, to collect, to gather, to come to something.
The Swiss-German dictionary of 1886 knows "rams werde", "rams si" as the dialect term for "to lose or to have lost" in the game of Rams by not taking a trick. It also means "to be or become financially ruined" as well as "to make a physical and mental fiasco" and "to be broken, lost". However, rams is also known as a derogatory term for being pregnant.

You can find more information about ramset at the following link: https://jassverzeichnis.ch/ramset/

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