Buttpedden
Buttpedden is an old fishing technique from East Friesland . It was mainly run by women. It is similar in its application to the butt-digging .
The name is a combination of the term butt , which is used to describe a wide variety of flatfish species in East Friesland , as well as the Low German word pedden , which means to step.
To Butt , plaice catch and other flatfish, the fisherwomen at the onset went the ebb barefoot in the Wadden Sea . There they went to the tides where they suspected the animals were. Once they had tracked them down, they approached the flatfish with extreme caution and then quickly stepped on them and fixed them with their feet. The fisherwomen then speared the flatfish with a trident . This often led to injuries to the fisher women too, so that they were often missing one or more toes. In Ditzum a memorial was erected in memory of the mudflat fishermen.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Karl-Ernst Behre : Ostfriesland - The history of its landscape and its settlement . Brune-Mettcker-Verlag, Wittmund 2014, ISBN 978-3-941929-09-8 , p. 268.
- ↑ Alfred Wegener Institute (Ed.): Leben im Watt - Scholle ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed December 27, 2014
- ↑ a b Wilt Aden Schröder : The 'stepped Butt', Aelian and Wilamowitz (Rheinisches Museum für Philologie) . Europeana. Retrieved December 27, 2014.
