Hardt (toponym)

The field name Hardt or Hard means 'mountain forest', 'wooded slope'.

variants

The related spellings with d , t , dt or th , as well as with aa can often be found in names . Harz and Harst are further variants.

The word can also refer to former forest pasture management .

Especially along the Rhine and in Central Hesse, the term refers to wooded slopes on the edge of floodplains and river / brook valleys. The word is close to Horst 'shrubbery, group of plants, tufts'.

In Saxony, the form Harthe also occurs for forest on a slope or a piece on the local border .

Not related, however, are the adjective hart and the  part of the name belonging to Old High German  * hard, * hart , strict ' - hard' strong 'as in Gerhard , Eberhard , Burkhardt and others. a.

Variants and examples

Various places, mountains:

• Hair
• Haardt
• Hard
• Hardt
• Hard
• Harth
• resin

The term is no longer used in New High German, but lives on in countless names as a prefix and suffix:

• Hardegg / Hardeck
• Hartberg / Hardtberg / Hardberg
• Hardtkopf , Hardthöhe
• Hardtwald ( double meaning)
• Harthof

Special cases:

• Höhnhart ('Höhenwald', the original name of the Kobernaußerwald )
• Murrhardt , city
• Rothaargebirge (originally Rod Hardt Mountains, i.e. ' cleared forest mountains ')
• Spessart ('Spechtswald')
• Northern Hardt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hart , m. and f. silva. ahd.hard and hard . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
2. ↑ Harst , m. and f . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
3. ↑ Horst , m. shrubbery . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 10 : H, I, J - (IV, 2nd division). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1877 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
4. ↑ Bernd Sickert and collective authors: Chronicle and home book "Seifersdorf bei Radeberg" . Published by the Wachau Community 2018