Poison booth
Giftbude is an old-fashioned name for restaurants on the German North and Baltic Sea coasts.
origin
The term Giftbude refers to the Old High German word gift (gift, giving), which has also been preserved in English gift (gift). The word Bude in the second part of the word describes a hut or a small house and goes back to the Middle High German word buode . So a poison booth is a place where you can get something.
Around 1900 the word Bude experienced a real boom as a buzzword . In colloquial language , the expression generally stands for cheap small apartments or shops and stores. Examples are student shacks, fairgrounds or building shacks.
The development of tourism on the German North and Baltic Sea coasts also fell during this period . In many of the newly emerging beach resorts, a poison booth is one of the first tourist infrastructure measures. The poison booth is usually a simple wooden hut that serves the beach guests during the tourist season to supply food and drinks.
literature
- Nicoletta Adams, DuMont travel paperback travel guide Ostseeküste Schleswig-Holstein , p.125 , Schleimünde
- Die Grenzboten: Journal for Politics, Literature and Art 1872, Volume 4, S.186
Individual evidence
- ^ Wilhelmshavener Heimatlexikon , Brune-Verlag, Wilhelmshaven 1986–1987, Volume I, page 383.