Break (landscape)
Bruch ( das or der Bruch; pronunciation usually or originally with a long [uː], but according to Duden also short [brʊx] ) is a term for swamp or moorland and - in regional variations - part of many field and settlement names . A break with trees forms a break forest .
Word variants and word origins
In place names, fraction often occurs as a basic word, but also as a qualifier or simplex. Variants are e.g. B. Broich (mostly in the Rhineland), Brook or Brauk (Low German). Older word forms are Old High German bruoh , Middle High German bruoch or Old Saxon and Middle Low German brōk . The Dutch name is broek , also the English word brook for a small river is related to it.
Examples
fracture
- Anklamer Stadtbruch , peat bog near Anklam
- Break of Gravenbruch , forest and wetland near Neu-Isenburg
- Füllenbruch , nature reserve in Herford and Hiddenhausen
- Griesheimer Bruch , forest and meadow area west of Griesheim in southern Hesse
- Big break , marshland between Oschersleben in Saxony-Anhalt and Hornburg in Lower Saxony
- Hülser Bruch , nature reserve near Krefeld
- Kasbruch , nature reserve near Neunkirchen (Saar) with traces of Gallo-Roman settlement
- Landstuhler Bruch , landscape in the West Palatinate in Rhineland-Palatinate, former moorland
- Linumer Bruch , landscape in Fehrbellin
- Maudacher Bruch is the largest contiguous green space in Ludwigshafen
- Nets break , landscape at the lower reaches of the nets
- Oderbruch , inland delta of the river Oder
- Rogeezer Bruch , part of the Sturer rewetting area, in Fünfseen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- Warthebruch , landscape at the confluence of the Warta into the Oder
- Weingartener Moor-Bruchwald Grötzingen , landscape protection area in the district of Karlsruhe in Baden-Württemberg
- Worringer Bruch , swampy flat landscape in the north of Cologne
Examples of "fraction" as an element of place names:
- Breitenbruch , district of Arnsberg
- Hausbruch , district of Hamburg
- Hombruch , district of Dortmund
- Katzenbruch , location in Wuppertal, in the local dialect also Kattenbrook
As a determinant:
- Bruchhausen , district of Olsberg
Broich
Main articles: -broich and Broich
As a simplex:
- Broich , district of Jülich
Brook
- Hansdorfer Brook , nature reserve in Schleswig-Holstein
- Brookmerland , joint municipality in East Frisia
Brauk
- Et Brauk , popularly for the Seelsche Bruch
- Brauk , in the topographical survey of the Rhineland from 1825 for: Diepenbruch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Grimm's dictionary sv "Bruch mn"
- ↑ Duden.de sv Bruch (2)
- ↑ Michael Flöer: The place names of the Hochsauerlandkreis. Bielefeld 2013, ISBN 978-3-89534-946-1 , p. 520 .