Geräms
A Geräms (collective in Middle High German ram , "support, frame, loom", New High German "frame") is a box-like porch in front of a house that is closed with bars and in which the residents of the house make contact with the public outside the house can. The actual living area was often facing the rear.
The house in which Johann Wolfgang von Goethe grew up also had such features:
“For us children, a younger sister and me, the spacious lower hallway was the favorite room, which had a large wooden latticework next to the door, which gave you direct contact with the street and the open air. Such a birdcage, with which many houses were provided, was called a Geräms. The women sat there to sew and knit; the cook read her salad; the neighbors therefore discussed with each other ... This is how the children came into contact with the neighbors through these turmoil ... "
literature
- Wolfgang Kemp : Aesthetic Column - Public Writing . In : Merkur, Issue 1, January 2014, p. 40
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geräms. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 5 : Gefoppe – Drifts - (IV, 1st section, part 2). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1897 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ↑ Where Goethe lives . (PDF) goethehaus-frankfurt.de, 2009