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Hockete , Hocketse , Hocket or Hock , Höck , also Höcke or Höcks , in the Alemannic and Swabian language areas describes a cozy sitting together for convivial conversation, then specifically a village festival in southwest Germany, at which there is mostly regional traditional food (for example red sausages , onion tarts or Sauerkraut with potato noodles ) and alcoholic drinks (mostly wine or beer ).
In most cases, local clubs and organizations (music club, shooting club , volunteer fire brigade ) but also local employers and businesses ( butchers , bakers ) are the organizers of such village festivals . A local band is often present to entertain the participants with their music.
Word origin
The word comes from the Alemannic-Swabian hocke for "sit" and literally means "sitting". The variant Hocket (e) is common in Upper Swabia , the Swabian Alb , parts of southern Baden and occasionally in Switzerland , the variant Hocketse in the central Neckar region . In Swiss German , Hock or Höck with the meaning "social get-together" is common; the German meaning "village festival", however, is unknown.
The variant Hocketse is often jokingly derived from the saying do hocket se (Swabian-Alemannic for "there they sit").
literature
- Swabian Dictionary , Volume III, Column 1730 (Article Hocket ).
- Schweizerisches Idiotikon , Volume II, Column 1120/21 (Article Hock Bed. 2d) and Column 1125 (Article Hockete n I Bed. 2 and Höck Bed. 5).
Web links
- Dates of traditional Swabian Hocketsâ in Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Journal region website, accessed on July 19, 2010
Individual evidence
- ^ Variant dictionary of German , Walter de Gruyter, 2011, page 353; limited preview in Google Book search.