Hötter Platt

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The Hötter Platt is a language that "op de Hött" had its home in a part of Gerresheim in Düsseldorf .

It is dying out, in 2005 there were only a few old speakers living in isolation from one another, and the language is no longer used in everyday life.

This is what it sounds like: "The häm ok op de Hött emer en bätn tosamn is running ..."

The Hötter Platt developed in an area that today belongs to Gerresheim, but was outside the city area at the time. The Gerresheimer Glashütte was founded there in 1864 and only closed in 2005. The facilities are still there, but the site will be rebuilt in the coming years. As the only glassworks far and wide, it was only called “de Hött”. The name was quickly transferred to the workers' settlements that housed the thousands of glassblowers ("blowers") who soon found work here. Most of them had immigrated from greater distances with their families, they were given the collective name “de Hötter”, as was their language.

The majority of the glassblower families came from Low German speaking areas east of the Elbe , from Pomerania , Mecklenburg and West Prussia to the Rhine. By mixing the immigrants' Platt languages, the Hötter quickly got their own dialect, which differed significantly from the original languages ​​and compensated for their differences. Practically nothing of the completely different dialects in the area was recorded. The reason for this was that the Hötter stayed among themselves for a long time and only spoke the Hötter Platt. In an area with a Limburg dialect of Düsseldorf near the language border with Bergisch, a dialect island has emerged with a language that has little correspondence with the Düsseldorf Platt .

The use of the island language has decreased with the growth of Gerresheim, the decreasing isolation of the hut settlement, the incorporation of Gerresheim into Düsseldorf, the consequences of the First and especially the Second World War . The last living speakers of the Hötter Platt learned to speak before the war.

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