Jockel

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Jockel (also Jockl) is a short or nickname for the first names Jakob , Jörg or Joachim . In addition, Jockel can be found as a surname or as a standing term.

Jockel as a first name

In the Odenwald , Jakob Ihrig (1866–1941) was known as the “Raubacher Jockel”. In the Geopark Bergstrasse-Odenwald you will find the “Jockel-Rundweg” around the home village of the “Raubacher Jockel”. Along the way, boards tell stories about the Jockel. The most famous story of the "Raubacher Jockel" is a meeting with one of the Counts of Erbach-Fürstenau in the Falkengesäßer forest. The "Raubacher Jockel" has been perceived as the Odenwald "national hero" since the 1950s, other sources see him as a modern village idiot of his time.

The first name Jockel is particularly known from a nursery rhyme song (1st stanza):

Then the Lord sends the Jockel . He's supposed to cut the oats.
The Jockel does not cut the oats. And doesn't come home either.

Other first name carriers known under this form:

Jockel as a surname

“Jockel” also exists as a surname, as can be seen in the Königsberg area and in Bukowina since the 18th century .

Jockel as a standing term

Especially in youth language , a person who has done or said something stupid is referred to as a (poor or stupid) joker (see idiot ). Jockel is also the name of a foolish, clumsy person.

In medieval Latin, a "joculator" was a joker or jester. Professional buffoons and actors of comic scenes dominated the imitative-caricaturing portrayal of animals and people as well as monological satirises on common secular themes. Joculators appeared - mostly in smaller groups - in public places, at fairs and festivals and lived off the alms of their audience. Joculators competitions were very popular, in which the Joculators tried to outbid each other in the portrayal of funny types (drunkards, morons). In some scenes a woman appeared as a partner, the "spilwip". Joculators liked to take current events as the subject of their appearances, which were mostly described as ridiculous and obscene, less often as satirizing in a demanding manner.

In the sailor's language, however, Jockel refers to an auxiliary motor that provides electricity in the front part of the ship, far away from the superstructure, when the ship is in port. A connection with “stupid Jockel” is possible, since it is not good for anything except in an emergency, as well as with “itching” or “jogging”, which means slowly, bumpy, chugging, running or driving slowly . The "Jockelgruppe" puts the technician on duty together, since a running engine has to be checked every hour. In the navy, a compressor is called "air jockel" and compressing air is called "air jockel".

The Tübingen Jockele

Jockele lock! Jockele hau a! S'geit en Aialboga!

The Tübinger Jockele is - like its role model - a cautious individual figure in the Swabian-Alemannic Carnival , based on the historical writings On the Trail of the Rafters by Emil Ell and Stadtbild im Wandel by Isolde Kurz . He wears a carpenter divide reminiscent black corduroy jacket with silver buttons and watch chain and always has a meter stick, an ax, the poking rod and a thick wound hemp rope there. In Tübingen, the Neckar rafters were teased by the students with the mock shout "Jockele lock, but there is an awful elbow", which means something like "Jockele brake, otherwise there will be a bad elbow". The term “elbow” was used to describe a jackknife-like jamming of the rafts tied together in the river, caused by carelessness.

Individual evidence

  1. Small encyclopedia of the German Middle Ages, entry "Joculator". (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 12, 2013 ; Retrieved September 30, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / u01151612502.user.hosting-agency.de
  2. The Jockele of the Ammerdaal Hexa Tübingen eV fool's guild
  3. An old rafters image - Tübingen sheets, No. 13, 1911 Page 52nd
  4. Culture and Heimatverein Sulz aN: Jockele lock! Regarding Ursula Wegner: Die Schwarzwald-Flößer ( Memento from December 16, 2003 in the Internet Archive ) SWR2 Knowledge - Manuscript Service (text file, rtf format; 50 kB).