Runge (vehicle technology)

Ladder trolley with a stake attached to the rear axle. You can see the fastening pin on the front axle.

Stakes are the vertical struts on the loading area of vehicles or trailers , which usually serve to support the load or the side wall .

Conclusions are eponymous feature of flat rail - freight wagons , the stake cars .

The stanchions of traditional wooden carts are used to support the side ladders on the wheel axles . These often consist of bent sticks , which are connected at the lower end to the unguided rear axle via an iron ring and extend to the upper end of the ladders.

According to Wolfgang Laur's work on the origin of the name of the lost place Rungholt , this name can be derived from a forest from which Rungen were taken.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Friedrich Benedict Weber : General German terminological economic lexicon and idioticon; Or, explanatory list of all in the area of ​​the entire agriculture, the fields, meadows, gardening, forestry, cattle, Tagd, fishing and housekeeping, in Germany and the individual German provinces occurring artificial words and expressions in general, and names of Agricultural plants, animals, tools , Part Two NZ, W. Engelmann, 1838, p. 467
2. ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, p. 559.