Apple equator

Memorial stone for the Äppel equator with a short poem in the dialects Rheinfränkisch and Mainfränkisch

The language border between Rhine-Franconian ( Lower Main ) and Main-Franconian ( Lower Franconian ) is referred to as the Äppeläquator .

course

The Äppelequator runs in the Spessart along a line from Wertheim to Schollbrunn . It is the language border from the Main Franconian to the Rhine Franconian dialect, one of the most famous language borders in Germany. On the road from the Rohrbrunn service station to Schollbrunn, there has been a memorial stone since May 2004 on which a short poem in both dialects tells of this border as follows:

“Here the apple must quench your thirscht, the hunger Grumbiernbrei and Wurscht. Degeche: Worscht un Äppelwoi , must uff de annern silk soi. "

The boundaries of the dialect spaces can be determined by passwords: Here the change from “Appel” to “Apple” and from “Äppelwoi” to “Oepfelmoust” takes place. The Isogloss is also called the Speyer line or the Apple-Apple line. If you take other dialect words into account, it is actually a transition strip up to 20 km wide.

Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 5.9 ″  N , 9 ° 24 ′ 40 ″  E

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Spessart project: At the Äppeläquator