Oil port

Ölhafen or Oelhafen (etymologically from Südd. Hafen, Haferl , that is pot ) is

• a vessel ("small bottle", "ampoule", "jug / oil jug" or similar) made of glass, clay, leather or the like for storing oil ( Latin olearia ampulla )
• a German family name with distribution in the Nördlinger , Nürnberger , Leipziger and Breslauer area. Well-known representatives of the Nuremberg branch are the Oelhafen von Schöllenbach .

See also

More recently, the oil port can also be used as a port facility for a specific purpose .

literature

• Michael Diefenbacher:  Oelhafen from and to Schöllenbach. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , pp. 437-439 ( digitized version ).
• Johann August Ritter von Eisenhart:  Oelhafen v. Schöllenbach, Sixtus . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 292-301.

Web links

• Mögeldorf and the family from Oelhafen . ( Memento from August 8, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Fritz Schaller, 2007.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oil Port. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 13 : N, O, P, Q - (VII). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1889 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).