Putt
Pütt m. ( Low German Schacht , Brunnen, Pfütze , Dutch put , English pit , French puits , Old High German pfuzzi , kölsch Pütz , Latin puteus ) denotes a mine or colliery in Ruhr German and in Aachen - Heinsberger Kohlerevier . In Low German Pütt also stands for puddle or for pots (singular putt ), recorded in the expression for household items as Pütt un Pann , literally pots and pans .
Pütt and Pott
Pütt, a synonym for mining, does not derive the terms “Kohlenpott”, “Pott” or “Ruhrpott” for the Ruhr area , despite the phonetic similarity to the Low German putt , although this opinion is sometimes held. Rather, the word "Pott", Low German mostly "Putt" and High German "Topf", has a completely independent etymology . In the Ruhr area and some regions with similar characteristics, the term stands for an area lower than its surroundings, based on the inside of a pot. In the case of the Ruhr area, there is also a reference to the fact that the region was an immigration area, a melting pot for over 200 years.
Mining
The Latin name puteus (= "well" or "pit") for a well-like shaft can already be found in documents on medieval mining in Germany.
Coal mining in today's Ruhr area began in its south, in the Ruhr valley , where the seams emerged, and then shifted further and further north. At first it was only digged deeper and deeper from the surface until a funnel-shaped pit was created, in which penetrating groundwater then made further digging impossible. This type of coal mining continued into the 16th century.
Others
Mentioned in literature since the 1920s, "Pütt" is the popular name for Parchim that is widespread in Mecklenburg . The Low German word for “puddle” probably alludes to the size of the Parchimer Wockersee , but is now associated with the city.
In some parts of Westphalia someone who works underground is referred to as "Püttmann", sometimes also as "Pütti" or in pseudo-Slavonic as "Püttek". Ironically elegant names for miners are "Püttologist" or "Püttrologist".
literature
- Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr (series: The blue books ). Verlag Langewiesche Nachhaben, Königstein im Taunus, 6th, expanded and updated edition 2008, ISBN 978-3-7845-6994-9 .
- Rolf Potthoff, Achim Nöllenheidt (eds.): At that time auf'm Pütt. Memories from the life of a miner in the Ruhr area . Klartext, Essen 2009, ISBN 978-3-8375-0208-4 .
See also
- Püttbierfest , a folk custom in Jever
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pütt. mitmachwoerterbuch.lvr.de, accessed on January 20, 2017 .
- ^ Wilhelm Hermann, Gertrude Hermann: The old collieries on the Ruhr . Verlag Langewiesche Nachhaben, Königstein im Taunus, 6th, expanded and updated edition 2008, p. 324.
- ↑ Dictionary on stadt-parchim.de ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
