Mailbahn Allee

A Mailbahn-Allee is a wide, tree-lined path that is often reserved for pedestrians. It is generally made up of a large central lawn flanked by a footpath. The Rue du Mail in Paris , which opened in August 1634, has its origins in such an area.

The term comes from the conversion of areas into public areas for a private mail game (forerunner of golf and croquet ).

In the villages of the Île-de-France region , the avenues of the Mail Railway often form sides of former ramparts.

literature

Franz Karl von Guttenberg: On the cultural history of Upper Franconia - the ball mallet game or mail on the mail train . In: Oberfränkische Heimat , Bayreuth, No. 11/1926.

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Individual evidence

^ Félix Lazare, Louis Clément Lazare: Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments . 1st edition Gustave Pessard, 1844, p. 405 f.
^ Lexical definitions and etymologies of "Mail" by TLFi on the homepage of the Center National de Ressources textuelles et lexicales (CNRTL) (French).
^ François Rabelais : Works by Rabelais . Variorum Edition, Paris 1823, Volume 1, p. 435.

[1] Félix Lazare, Louis Clément Lazare: Dictionnaire administratif et historique des rues de Paris et de ses monuments . 1st edition Gustave Pessard, 1844, p. 405 f.

[2] Lexical definitions and etymologies of "Mail" by TLFi on the homepage of the Center National de Ressources textuelles et lexicales (CNRTL) (French).

[3] François Rabelais : Works by Rabelais . Variorum Edition, Paris 1823, Volume 1, p. 435.