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Hocketse at the citizens' festival in Freiberg am Neckar

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

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Variant dictionary of German , Walter de Gruyter, 2011, page 353; limited preview in Google Book search.