Hammrich
Hammrich (also: Hammer , Plattdüütsch : Hammerk ) are the flat and spacious meadows and pastures with little or no development in East Friesland and Wangerland . "In East Friesland, the term 'Hammrich' stands for lowland (often also boggy) used as meadow or pasture in the transition from the Geest to the marsh ." This is a typical East Frisian landscape, criss-crossed by small bodies of water, the Schlooten and lows becomes. In the last century, the landscape was severely carved up by the construction of electricity pylons , the A 31 motorway , railway lines and, recently, the occasional wind farm .
Word origin
Hammrich , from the Frisian Hammerke means something like village border area . It is made up of the words Häm (= home or village) and Mark (= border or border area). Since the word border did not exist as a dividing line in Frisian ( border is borrowed from Slavic ), the mark denotes a border area. Therefore the Hammrich is the border area between the villages. "Nnd. hamrîk, hammrîk, hammerîk, hammerk, Hammrich, d. H. an extended area of contiguous low meadowland, which is bordered on one side by the Geest and on the other by the marshland or by the alluvial clay and was previously used exclusively for grazing or as Meedland. "
Economical meaning
Today these areas are mainly used for the construction of wind turbines , in addition to their mainly agricultural use . It is not uncommon to find individual farmsteads, e.g. B. the Minser Hammrich away from the coastal resort of Minsen .
See also
literature
- Joachim Flessner: Wrisse ; Status: 2009 (PDF file; 28 kB)