Kretscham

Historic postcard of the former village inn Kretscham Max Besser in Strahwalde in Upper Lusatia (around 1901)

Court squeeze in Kunnersdorf

Eulkretscham in Euldorf (around 1900)

The Kretscham , borrowed from the (reconstructed) Old Sorbian word * krč'ma "Schenke, Kneipe, Krug" (cf. Sorbian korčma , Polish karczma , Czech krčma , late Middle High German  kretscheme , Upper Lusatian dialect Kraatschn ), is a village inn or a tavern , often the seat of the dispensing justice thoughtful mayor and court of the village court was (Gerichtskretscham). Usually the locators were given this right.

background

The term Kretscham for a village inn is still common in Upper Lusatia and was also found very often (see below) in the Prussian province of Silesia . The associated host is the Kretzschmar, plural Kretzschmarn. The surnames Kretschmar , Kretschmer and Kretschmann are derived from it. Places with the ending -kretscham are: Dreikretscham , Kretscham-Rothensehma , Kieferkretscham , Peiskretscham , Wasserkretscham and the deserted village Kretscham (Krčma) at Domašín .

See also : Kretschmer (brewer)

literature

• Kretscham. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 11 : K - (V). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1873 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

Web links

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Wiktionary: Kretscham  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kretscham, the. In: Digital dictionary of the German language . Retrieved October 28, 2014
2. ^ Andreas Müller: Kretschmann = the innkeeper. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . January 10, 2018, accessed July 26, 2020 .