Stoop

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Remains of the Rheingau Gebück around 1895 after Karl August von Cohausen

Fencing made of living wood according to Johann Georg Krünitz: Economic Encyclopedia. Volume 16, Berlin 1787 (Figure 856)

New installation of a curtsey according to Nicolaus Oest: economic-practical instruction for the enclosure of the lands. Flensburg 1767

A hunch (in terms of landscape also: kink , kink, hag , Gehag, Heege - the similarity of sounds to bushes is purely coincidental despite factual proximity) is an obstacle to approach in the form of an impenetrable hedge . This is created by planting young trees , the trunks of which are bent down ( stooped ) or kinked and intertwined . Most of the time, a bridle was accompanied by ramparts and ditches in order to increase its protective effect.

Bridges were already known in antiquity and in many cultures. Gebückartige fixtures are from Hyrkaniern and Menapii handed down later with the Saracens and the old Prussia . The Silesian border fortification Preseka was probably also a bridge. In the late Middle Ages, the land forces were created as a bridle. The apron of a castle was also often secured in this way.

In today's German-speaking area, the bridges consisted mainly of hornbeams . If bridges are no longer maintained, the young shoots of the trees grow unhindered in the vertical. Nevertheless z. B. from the Rheingau Gebück can still be recognized today as a former part of the complex by means of their age and their growth, which was shaped by the earlier bending.

Fully grown former hedge beeches near the Mapper Schanze

See also

• Wall hedge
• Bocage
• Landwehr
• Hedge laying

literature

• August Demmin : Encyclopedia of written, pictorial and heraldic studies, costumes, equipment, vascular studies, civil and ecclesiastical architecture, war architecture and shipbuilding (=  handbook of the visual and industrial arts. Volume 1). Karl Schulze, Leipzig 1877, p. 299/300: Germanic ramparts. Hage, Gebücke (Digitalisat the UB Heidelberg ).
• Ernst Götzinger : Reallexicon of German antiquities. A handbook and reference book on the cultural history of the German people. 2nd, completely revised edition. Waldemar Urban, Leipzig 1885, p. 53/54: Fortifications of the ancient Germanic peoples (digitized in the Internet Archive ).
• Johann Georg Krünitz : Economic Encyclopedia, or general system of the country, house and state economy in alphabetical order . Volume 16. Joachim Pauli, Berlin 1787, figure Nº 856 (digitized version of the BSB ).
• Nicolaus Oest: Economic-practical instruction for the enclosure of the lands together with an appendix on the way in which the field stones can be blasted and split, also necessary copper. Johann Christoph Korte, Flensburg 1767 ( digitized version of the ULB Saxony-Anhalt ).