Dock box

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Dockenkasten is a historical name, especially common in southern Germany, for a doll's house or a doll's box that children, especially little girls, used as toys. It usually comprised play dolls and accessories that were important for household upbringing and education. The word is derived from the historical word for "doll" in Middle High German (tocke = Docke) or Old High German (tocka = doll), in Swabian Dock or Docke.

The dolls were usually female dolls, from baby diapers and cradles to adults. In addition, figures such as jumping jacks, riders, soldiers, horses etc. as well as objects such as furniture and the like also belonged. a. to. Often, a dock box was also understood to mean a box with play dolls for a puppet theater, as they are used for example. B. was used on marketplaces.

Dock boxes have been known since the 16th century. Historically, are u. a .:

  • Dock box of the Duchess Maria Jakobäa von Baden (1507–1580)
    This dock box of the Duchess Jakobäa was painted from 1576 to 1579 by the Stuttgart court painter Hans Steiner (before 1550–1610). It was found at the widow's residence after the Duchess's death in Munich. It is not known when the duchess had this dollhouse, which apparently represents her own court, made.
  • Ulmer Docks box
    Lotte Rosenbusch (1924-2010) was in the 1970s and 1980s, the Ulm Docks box museum Ulm not only restored, but also documented in watercolors and drawings.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christian Jakob Wagenseil: Attempting a History of the City of Augsburg - A Reader for All Estates, From 1628, or Emperor Ferdinand II. Restitution Edict, up to the end of the seventeenth century . Volume 3, Augsburg 1821
  2. ^ Karl H. Roth von Schreckenstein: The patriciate in the German cities, especially imperial cities: As a contribution to the history of the German cities and the German nobility . Tübingen 1856, p. 452, Textarchiv - Internet Archive
  3. ^ German quarterly font. JG Cotta, Stuttgart 1841, 1st issue ( HathiTrust )
  4. ↑ Docke. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 2 : Beer murderer – D - (II). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1860 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
  5. ↑ Roland Groner: Dialect - What does “Dock” mean? In: Stuttgarter Nachrichten , January 2, 2012
  6. ^ Johann Christoph von Schmid: Swabian dictionary with etymological and historical notes . Stuttgart 1844, p. 130 (Google Books)
  7. ^ Eduard Mörike: The Stuttgart Hutzelmännlein . Fairy tale. Stuttgart 1853
  8. ↑ Dorothea Diemer, Willibald Sauerländer: Treatises of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Issue 129, part 3. Verlag of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 2008.
  9. ↑ Werner Fleischhauer: Renaissance in the Duchy of Württemberg . Kohlhammer, 1971.
  10. ↑ Volume two of Dockenbilder: The old Ulm comes to life again on a small scale . In: Schwäbische Zeitung , December 4, 1987