Hole (field name)

Loch , Loh and numerous variants are old German toponyms meaning forest or wetland .

Word origin

The place name is based on an Old High German lô or loh based on an old root . This has several meanings that the interpretation based on it Flurnamen difficult:

Common basic names are lô, lôch , m. or n. , Middle High German lôch , genitive lôhen , pl. holes and Ä., Meaning forest , grove , wood , wood , bushes . It is related to the Latin lucus ("grove", "forest")
On the other hand, lôch , f. , Latin ' labina, palus ' a word for ' swamp meadow , wetland ' (similar to Au , Luch , etc.).

Like many of these words, it tends in two directions, on the one hand generally ' wood , grove , forest ' and on the other hand ' coppice , bush land ', up to ' swamp meadow '. These two can also mix (similar to Bruch in the meaning of ' alluvial forest ').

As Lohe (tanner) , the tree components used for tanning were later referred to (mainly of oak and spruce) than Lohwald applied to Lohegewinnung woods', such as oak peeling forest (Rhenish Lohhecken ).

In medieval and early modern legal language, however, Loh is also "in particular (usually not enclosed ) forest stands in which one or more members of the march are entitled to use wood, while the other rights of use are also available to the other members", and also "that of the authorized community member Timber proportion to be felled twice a year in the tan ”.

Distribution, variants and examples

The word is name-building throughout the German-speaking area. It can be found in numerous forms such as La, Le, Leo, Lach, Lo, Loch, Lohen, Luch, Lauch, Loach.

From this are place names, such as Loch , Lohen , Lochen ; Lochhofen , Lohhof , Hohenlohe ( Hohlach ), Gütersloh ; Barlo ; Lochbach emerged, but also family names such as Schottenloher or Erbslöh . The field names Loo (am Bürgen), Lohmatte ( Ettiswil ) and Ochsenlohn ( Cham ZG ), the place names Langenloh (for example in the canton of Bern ), Schwaderloch and Lohn as well as the surnames Loher , Locher and Lohner belong here.

In Upper German , the word also changes direction lah or leo , from which Laa , Lach , Lachforst , Lahstedt , Laakirchen , Leogang .

Individual evidence

↑ Loh , m. n . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885 ( woerterbuchnetz.de - forest, wood). LÔCH, LÔ stm. stn. low wood, bush . In: Georg Friedrich Benecke, Wilhelm Müller, Friedrich Zarncke: Middle High German Dictionary. Volume 1, Sp. 1041a Leipzig 1854-1866 lôch flex.-hes stmn. bushes . In: Matthias Lexer: Middle High German Concise Dictionary. Volume 1, Sp. 1949 (all woerterbuchnetz.de, University of Trier).

↑ LOH, f. marsh meadow, marshy place. In: German dictionary . ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

↑ ^a ^b F.V. Zillner: The water in Salzburg field and place names. In: Mitteilungen der Salzburger Gesellschaft für Landeskunde (MSKL), 22, p. 37–61, section La, Le,… , p. 1 ff ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

↑ lô stm . In: Lexer: Mittelhochdeutsches hand dictionary (woerterbuchnetz.de, University of Trier).

↑ Loh, num In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (ed.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 9/10 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7400-0137-2 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).

↑ Examples from: Helene Zierhofer: The forest and its trees in the light of language. In: Communications of the German Dendrological Society. Issue 55, 1943, p. 83 ( limited preview in Google book search).

↑ Alfred Helfenstein: The Namengut Pilate territory. Keller, Luzern 1982, ISBN 3-85766-004-X , p. 48.

^ P. Benedikt Pitschmann OSB: P. Matthias Höfer von Kremsmünster and his etymological dictionary (1815). Part II. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 115a, pp. 199–210, here p. 201 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ), sheet 3: “Buschwald Loh, Laa or Leo ”.

[1] Loh , m. n . In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 12 : L, M - (VI). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1885 ( woerterbuchnetz.de - forest, wood). LÔCH, LÔ stm. stn. low wood, bush . In: Georg Friedrich Benecke, Wilhelm Müller, Friedrich Zarncke: Middle High German Dictionary. Volume 1, Sp. 1041a Leipzig 1854-1866 lôch flex.-hes stmn. bushes . In: Matthias Lexer: Middle High German Concise Dictionary. Volume 1, Sp. 1949 (all woerterbuchnetz.de, University of Trier).

[2] LOH, f. marsh meadow, marshy place. In: German dictionary . ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).

[Zillner-3] F.V. Zillner: The water in Salzburg field and place names. In: Mitteilungen der Salzburger Gesellschaft für Landeskunde (MSKL), 22, p. 37–61, section La, Le,… , p. 1 ff ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).

[4] lô stm . In: Lexer: Mittelhochdeutsches hand dictionary (woerterbuchnetz.de, University of Trier).

[5] Loh, num In: Former Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (ed.): German legal dictionary . tape 8 , issue 9/10 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1991, ISBN 3-7400-0137-2 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ).

[6] Examples from: Helene Zierhofer: The forest and its trees in the light of language. In: Communications of the German Dendrological Society. Issue 55, 1943, p. 83 ( limited preview in Google book search).

[7] Alfred Helfenstein: The Namengut Pilate territory. Keller, Luzern 1982, ISBN 3-85766-004-X , p. 48.

[8] P. Benedikt Pitschmann OSB: P. Matthias Höfer von Kremsmünster and his etymological dictionary (1815). Part II. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. 115a, pp. 199–210, here p. 201 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ), sheet 3: “Buschwald Loh, Laa or Leo ”.