Horst (toponym)
The eyrie is a slightly elevated, protruding and mostly overgrown place in wetlands or a wood, or the ending -horst as part of place names is a reference to former fields .
etymology
Horst is derived from the Old and Middle High German word hurst with the original meaning "shrubbery", close to harst (see Hardt "wooded slope", "hill", "forest pasture")
- in the general sense the term for shrub or group of bushes
- a group of trees are called which differ in age, growth and wood type from their surroundings and form a unit (see grove )
- forestry for the coppice
- as total wood stock of a forest area, if it does not form a closed stock (see forest , wood )
- in Low German also the stroke, the stump corridor with tree stumps
- also Bult , close together tufts of grass that grow higher and higher ( Horst in today's botanical sense)
- in Upper Saxony also elevation in the wetland ("a heap of sand or earth that the water in particular has brought together", probably above the vegetation)
- Cripple growth forms (see kink for bushes)
- or generally wasteland
This word is a typical name of the moor settlement in former swamp , moorland or wet lowlands , otherwise perhaps a clearing name or general descriptive field name.
variants
- -host, -ost (Low German)
- -hurst (also English, Ewhurst, Surrey, England "yew wood")
- Bult , Low German
- Donk , the corresponding term in the Lower Rhine as in the Dutch- speaking area
Place names
Examples:
- see Horst (disambiguation) - overview of geographical objects called Horst
- Delmenhorst ("Wood on the Delme ")
- Fahlhorst , place in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark
- Freckenhorst , place in the district of Warendorf, district of Warendorf
- Isselhorst , district of Gütersloh ("Gehölz der Gisela" or "des Giselher")
- Kreuzhorst , NSG with alluvial forest in Magdeburg
- Karlshorst , district of Berlin
- Havekost ("Habicht-Horst")
- Gamshurst , district of Achern
- Legelshurst , district of Willstätt, both Ortenaukreis on the edge of the Black Forest
- the 24 eyrie in the Drömling, see there Middle Ages and Modern Times
See also
other place names on bodies of water and in wetlands:
proof
- ↑ Hurst stm. stf. bush, shrubbery, hedge. In: Georg Friedrich Benecke, Wilhelm Müller, Friedrich Zarncke: Middle High German Dictionary . Volume 1. Leipzig 1854, reprint: S. Hirzel, Stuttgart 1990, Sp.734b ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ a b horst, m. shrubbery. 1) horst ... various meanings.. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877, Sp. 1833–1834 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ horst, hurst (host), f. In: Karl Schiller and August Lübben : Middle Low German Dictionary. Volume 2, Kühtmann, Bremen 1875-1881, p. 304 f. ( uni-heidelberg.de digital facsimile ).
- ↑ harst, m. and f.. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877, Sp. 498 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Fritz Langenbeck: The tung and -hurst names in the Upper Rhine region. In: Alemannisches Jahrbuch. 1958, pp. 51-108 ( alemannisches-institut.de PDF).