Dalles
In some municipalities in the Mainz and Frankfurt am Main area, Dalles is the partly official or popularly used name for the central square of the place, for example in Frankfurt-Sindlingen , Mörfelden ( Mörfelden-Walldorf ) and Oberems im Taunus , in Weiterstadt and in Wackernheim and Sulzbach am Taunus . In the Mühltal district of Traisa , the Dalles is the local fairground.
“The name was probably transferred from the Frankfurt or Mainzer Dalles to other village squares; because that was the meeting point for the poor small traders. ”In the 19th century, the Dalles in Frankfurt was a small square between the Zeil , Fahrgasse , Judengasse and Allerheiligengasse leading to the Allerheiligentor , for example at today's Konstablerwache , where day laborers looking for work gathered every day . Since the day laborers were mostly migrants from East Hesse , this meeting place was also called Fulderbörse in Frankfurt's vernacular . Around 1881 the square fell victim to the expansion of the Zeil to the east. Then the name Dalles and the Fulderbörse moved south to the former Judenmarkt (today Börneplatz ). There the name is still used for the time after the end of the First World War .
The word Dalles is of Yiddish origin and comes from the Hebrew dal, dalut, dallûṯ for poverty or from the (West) Jewish dáless for need, poverty, bankruptcy, misery. It is also used in the Frankfurt dialect to mean poverty, need, lack of money, serious illness, lying down and destroyed (broken) thing ( which Dalles have ), and Dalles also describes a fool.
In the Rhineland dialect used as “em den Dalles gin” (to give the rest), in Swabian as “der hat sein Dalles” (received his part). Accordingly, the phrase "alles Bruch un Dalles" is used in the Rhineland to refer to shabby, neglected and chaotic conditions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sindlinger Geschichtsverein: Caption to the former Annenkapelle am Dalles ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Accessed on June 22, 2017
- ↑ Dalles (interpretation). South Hessian field name book. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
- ↑ a b c Wolfgang Brückner : Frankfurt dictionary . Based on the material collected by Johann Joseph Oppel and Hans Ludwig Rauh , published on behalf of the Frankfurt Historical Commission in conjunction with the Institute for Folklore / Institute for Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . Waldemar Kramer Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0360-9 . Volume I: Introduction, A – Eva, pp. 453f.
- ↑ Universal Lexicon: To have the Dalles
- ^ Jüdische Allgemeine of February 21, 2013, author Christoph Gutknecht
