Homeie

A Homeie , other common spellings are: Hameide , Hameye , Homeye or Homeyde , is a defense system in front of a medieval city fortification. It was mostly used to protect bridges or smaller customs posts. According to Scheller, it is also used to designate a guard house or a watchtower.

The name can be found, for example, at the Homeyenbrücke in the city of Brandenburg an der Havel . The home there once protected the bridge over the Brandenburg Niederhavel in front of the old town Mühlentor and gave the dam leading to the bridge the name Homeiendamm. It was not until 1727 that Gottschling used the current, official name Grillendamm in a description of the town .

Footnotes

↑ Book studies of the Sassian-Low German language mainly based on the written monuments in Wolfenbüttel, Dr. Karl FA Scheller , printed in the Princely Orphanage, Braunschweig 1826, p. 37 ( ... homeide a guard house, watchtower, from which the POMEIBA in Algermann, which has caused so many controversies in the Braunschweig magazine, may have arisen through incorrect reading ... )
^ Friedrich Grasow: Brandenburg, the millennial city - A walk through the culture and architecture of past centuries . Self-published by the city of Brandenburg; Brandenburg an der Havel 1928, p. 46

[sch-1] Book studies of the Sassian-Low German language mainly based on the written monuments in Wolfenbüttel, Dr. Karl FA Scheller , printed in the Princely Orphanage, Braunschweig 1826, p. 37 ( ... homeide a guard house, watchtower, from which the POMEIBA in Algermann, which has caused so many controversies in the Braunschweig magazine, may have arisen through incorrect reading ... )

[gra-2] Friedrich Grasow: Brandenburg, the millennial city - A walk through the culture and architecture of past centuries . Self-published by the city of Brandenburg; Brandenburg an der Havel 1928, p. 46