Foskort

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The Foskort (also known as Fosskutt or Vosskutt ) is an upright boulder in Burhafe , a district of Wittmund , in the Wittmund district in Lower Saxony . It protrudes about 2.2 m from the ground on the edge of the church hill, southeast of the church.

description

The length or, when erect, the height of the boulder is around 3 m, but only part of it is visible. Its trapezoidal cross-section has a width of about 1.7 m and a thickness of 0.8 m. An incision on its surface is interpreted as a representation of a buttercup. A recess should have the shape of a shoe sole. Allegedly, when the neighboring house was built in 1929, it was moved five meters to the south and / or west.

During the funnel beaker culture (TBK), boulders, especially if they already had a plate-shaped structure, were used to build graves. It is therefore assumed that the foskort served as a grave capstone.

Say

According to an etiological story , a giant hurled the stone to prevent the construction of the harbor or to destroy the church or the separate steeple. Further projectiles (boulders) are said to be hidden in the church hill near the foskort. Because a cock crow prevented the destruction, the buttercup was scratched.

Another legend has to do with a dent in the stone: the devil threw a fox fur on to fool a hunter who could not stop hunting even on Good Friday. In order to hide, he pressed so close to the stone that an impression was left behind. This legend is often used to explain the name Vosskutt. “Voss” is the Low German name for the fox, “kutt” could refer to the cowl , the throw, but this interpretation is not linguistically secured.

In many fairy tales, erratic blocks are referred to as the places where the newborn children came from. In various regions, certain stones are named as their origins, in the Burhafe area it is said that they come from under d 'Fosskutt .

literature

  • JH Müller and J. Reimers: Pre and early historical antiquities of the province of Hanover. Local files of the East Frisian landscape, Hanover 1893, p. 299f ( PDF; 25.0 MB ).
  • Wolfgang Schwarz: 152. The Foskort in Burhafe In: Archaeological Monuments between Weser and Ems Archaeological Messages from Northwest Germany Supplement 34 Isensee 2000 p. 484

Web links

  • Vosskutt on the Burhafe page - The ev.-luth. Genealogy Forum Church .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn, Almuth Salomon (Ed.): Historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony. Scale 1: 50000. Sheet Wangerland / Hooksiel-West. Publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, Volume 2, Part 10, Kommissionsverlag, Bielefeld 1986, p. 25 ISBN 3-7848-3630-5
  2. ↑ Erhard Kühlhorn, Almuth Salomon (Ed.): Historical and regional excursion map of Lower Saxony. Scale 1: 50000. Sheet Wangerland / Hooksiel-West. Publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen, Volume 2, Part 10, Kommissionsverlag, Bielefeld 1986, p. 22 ISBN 3-7848-3630-5
  3. ^ Wilhelmine Siefkes: East Frisian legends and legendary stories. Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, 1963, p. 110
  4. ↑ a b Klaus Mailahn: Reineke Fuchs and the Goddess: New Findings on a Sacred Animal of the Great Mother. Grin Verlag, 2010, p. 178 ISBN 3-6406-4615-0
  5. ↑ Alexander Paraschkewow: Words and names of the same origin and structure: Lexicon of etymological duplicates in German. Walter de Gruyter, 2004, p. 110, ISBN 3-11-017469-3
  6. ↑ Dieter Damwerth: Legends and fairy tales from East Frisia. 2nd edition, Husum Druck, 2008, p. 68 ISBN 3-8804-2782-8

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ′ 34.4 "  N , 7 ° 49 ′ 27.1"  E