Gump

Pools in the Pfanngraben ( Mangfall Mountains )

As pools predominantly be basin-like potholes designated by the fast-flowing streams in the rocky surface of a riverbed eroded be. They often arise in close succession and then shape the stream bed in a stepped manner. This way the stream forms cascades . The associated further enlargement of these vortex pots distinguishes the pools from pools .

Depending on the overall gradient of the stream, the process of pool formation changes into the formation of a waterfall . Examples are the signposted pools in the Pfandlgraben ("Pfännchen-") below the Rotwand (see photo), or the Sieben Bütten (pools), as the Allerheiligen waterfalls in the northern Black Forest are also called (see also the list of waterfalls in Germany ).

In parts of southern Germany, water basins are also generally referred to as pools . On the one hand, this applies to pools, i.e. basin-like troughs in the bottom of shallow rivers, e.g. on boulders, at the mouths of tributaries, below weirs or under impact banks on the outer curves of the rivers. On the other hand, this applies to lakes. The Blaue Gumpe , a small mountain lake in the Partnach in the Reintal ( Wetterstein Mountains ; destroyed by a landslide in 2005) was known. A spring funnel in the Großer Ostersee (south of Lake Starnberg ) is also called the Blue Gumpe .

Gumpe in Glacier Park Uriezzo

Detailed word definitions to the term Gumpe including etymology and language affinities found in Grimm's dictionary and in the Oeconomischen encyclopedia of Krünitz as Kumpf or Kumpen .

Mountain hikers like to use pools as natural "bathtubs".

literature

• Gump ^[n] . In: Schweizerisches Idiotikon . Volume II: G-H . Schwabe Verlag, 1887, Sp. 315-317 ( [1] ).
• Gump. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 9 : Greander gymnastics - (IV, 1st section, part 6). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935, Sp. 1097-1099 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

Web links

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

• Keyword in the Economic Encyclopedia (1773-1858) by JG Krünitz

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gump. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 9 : Greander gymnastics - (IV, 1st section, part 6). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1935, Sp. 1097-1099 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
2. ↑ 2. Kumpf or Kumpen 1) . In: Johann Georg Krünitz (Ed.): Economic Encyclopedia, or general system of the state, city, house and Agriculture: in alphabetical order . tape 35 : Cumulative to copper . Pauli, Berlin 1791, p. 60 ( books.google.de ).