Bult (elevation)
Horste (Bulte) in the National Nature Reserve Kladské rašeliny (Glatzener Moor, Czech Republic)
Bult (other form: Bülte ) is a name for a raised ground in bogs or swampy terrain overgrown with grass or moss .
Name customer
The word is of Low German origin and also generally designates ' hill ' and ' pile ' in historical language levels .
Variants:
- the Bult , plural Bülte or Bulten
- der Bulte (old variant according to Grimm's dictionary )
- the Bülte , plural Bülten
As a landform
- raised peaks of peat and peat moss in the central areas of arched rain bogs and in intermediate bogs; see Bult-Schlenken complex
- reed-covered islands or shallows, e.g. B. in Pomeranian , here called Bülten
Other words of similar meaning:
- Werder , spread throughout the German-speaking area, as Wörth to the southeastern borders
- Horst , northern and central German
- Donk , the corresponding term on the Lower Rhine
- Kaupe , valley sand island in the Spreewald
As a vegetative form
- Clumps of sweet and sour grasses ( Horst grasses )
- the raised rhizomes formed by the black alder ( Alnus glutinosa ) in swamp forests
Place and field name examples
The word as part of place names is a typical name of the bog settlement .
- Bult , district of Hanover, hence the name of the horse racing track there: Große Bult , now Neue Bult in Langenhagen
- Bülten , districts of Ilsede
- Bült / Altstadt, part of the old town of Münster , which is located on a small hill. A bus stop also bears this name.
Other topographic objects:
- Borner Bülten, Jägerbülten, Meininger Bülten, Neuendorfer Bülten, Schmidt-Bülten in the Darß-Zingster Boddenkette in the Western Pomerania Lagoon Area National Park
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bult . Duden online
- ↑ Bulte. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 2 : Beer murderer – D - (II). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1860 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Bülte . Duden online