Grinksmith

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The Grinkenschmied (also Grienkenschmied , Low German : Grinkenschmidt ) is a legendary figure from the Münsterland and the Osnabrück region . Its name is reminiscent of the craftsmen who used to make “ Grinken ”, iron tires for the farmers' wooden wheels.

There are different versions of the saga that all tell of an invisible blacksmith who is extremely artistic.

There are several places where the Grienkenschmidt to have lived, such as scattered on the Muhlenberg or the Rösteberg on the edge of the peasantry Haeger (where there is also a road Grienkenswell = Grienkensquelle are) springing source and on to Altenberge belonging Horsteberg few kilometers further. Another variant locates it on the Eterberg near Steinfurt .

Jenny von Droste-Hülshoff , the sister of the writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff , is said to have made sure in 1816 that the legend was included in the legends of the Brothers Grimm .

Sage (based on JG Th. Grasse)

The Detterberg (near Schapdetten ) is three hours from the city of Munster. In ancient times, a wild man lived on it, whom people called Grinkenschmied. He lived in a deep hole in the ground that was completely overgrown with grass and bushes and that no one who did not know and knew could find it. In the hole he had his forge and worked splendid and rare things that lasted forever, and no one could open his locks without his own keys. There is also said to be a lock from him on the church door in Nienberge , which had the property that it arrested and imprisoned the thieves who wanted to vomit it. Whenever there was a wedding in the neighborhood, the peasants would come to the Grinkenschmied and lend him a skewer, for which they had to give him a roast. One day a farmer came in front of the hole and said: "Grinkenschmied, give me a spit!" "You won't get a roast, keep your spit!" The farmer called down again. The smith was angry about this in his hole and shouted after the farmer: "Make sure I don't take a roast!" But the farmer went home very calmly, but when he got there he heard great lamentations, because his The best horse was dead in the stable and one of its hind legs and its thigh were released, as if a game butcher had done it skillfully and was gone. That was Grinkenschmied's roast.

literature

  • Jacob Grimm: German Mythology . 3. Edition. Dieterichsche Buchhandlung, 1854 ( online in the Google book search).
  • Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, Gustav A. Ritter: German legends . Merkur publishing house, 1904.
  • Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: Westphalian fairy tales and legends from the estate of the Brothers Grimm. Contributions from the Droste district . Ed .: Karl Schulte-Kemminghausen. 2nd Edition. Aschendorff, Münster 1976, ISBN 3-402-03412-3 , p. 161 (Fairy tales from German landscapes. Volume 2).
  • Adalbert Kuhn: Legends, customs and fairy tales from Westphalia and some others, especially the neighboring areas of northern Germany . Compiled by Adalbert Kuhn. Brockhaus, 1859.
  • Adalbert Kuhn (Hrsg.): Journal for comparative language research in the field of Indo-European languages . tape 4 . Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1855, p. 97-99 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jacob Grimm: German legends . Ayer Publishing, 1977, ISBN 0-405-10097-3 , pp. 119 ( online in Google book search).
  2. ^ Christiane Schräder: Rübezahl in Westphalian. In: Grevener Zeitung. September 27, 2007, accessed November 27, 2010 .
  3. ^ Johann Georg Theodor Grasse: Book of legends of the Prussian state . tape 1 . C. Flemming, 1868, p. 772 ( online in Google Book Search [accessed October 11, 2009]).