Siepen (geography)
Siepen, Siefen, Seifen or Seipen is a typical regional name in north-western Germany for mostly narrow, moist, gorge-like notch valleys in the low mountain range with source streams . In southern Germany, the term blade is common for such valley shapes.
The name is often found as part of self-names from the central and southern Ruhr area to southern Westphalia ( Sauerland ), as well as in the neighboring Bergisches Land , Siegerland and southern Rhineland . In northern Hesse, the name is common in the former Low German language area in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district as far as Korbach and Bad Arolsen.
The word is derived from the Middle Low German word sîpe "humid lowland" or "small river, brook", the verb sîpen means "trickle, drip". Siepen has a grammatically neutral or masculine gender.
The word forms Siefen and Seif are predominant in the Franconian - Hessian area. The form -siepen (with p ) as part of the name of waters or place names, on the other hand, is mainly found in the northern Bergisches Land as far as South Westphalia. The difference in the spelling reflects dialect differences that arose due to different degrees of sound shift ; the region in which the name occurs is crossed by the dialect borders of the so-called Rhenish fan .
The spring streams in the valley do not necessarily carry water all year round, but they have nevertheless dug the Kerbtal. In the post-ice age , the amount of water that ran off was greater in the low mountain ranges, so that the streams could cut into the terrain more strongly than today.
The word also refers to moist meadow valleys with steep slopes, derived from it . The terminator of the name Siebengebirge may contain the root Siepen. In the Solingen plateau, siepenaat means “completely soaked”.
In the East Westphalian Ravensberger Land and in the Lipperland , such terrain forms are called Siek . They point to the amelioration of the land for farming there today but mostly trough shape. The etymological relationship of the term sike zu Siepen, which denotes a similar fluvial form in Middle Low German, is possible.
Web links
- Im Siefen / Im Siepen (geographical distribution of street names with the component Siepen or Siefen).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ z. B. in Herne, see Manfred Hildebrandt (arrangement): Herne - from Ackerstraße to Zur-Nieden-Straße: City history as reflected in the street names . Ed .: Stadt Herne, Der Oberbürgermeister (= Publications of the City Archives Herne . Volume 1 ). Herne 1997 (entry: Siepenstrasse ).
- ↑ Search for Sipe . Hessian field names. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS). Retrieved June 7, 2016.
- ^ Karl Schiller , August Lübben : Middle Low German Dictionary . tape 4 . Verlag von J. Küthmanns Buchhandlung, Bremen 1878, p. 215 . Digitized
- ↑ See the entry siepen in the German dictionary .
- ^ Franz Woeste: Dictionary of the Westphalian dialect . Europäische Hochschulverlag, Bremen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86741-596-5 (first edition: 1882).
- ^ Julius Leithäuser : place names in the Wupper area. In: Journal of the Bergisches Geschichtsverein . Vol. 34, 1898/1899, pp. 97-122, here p. 102. Digitized
- ^ Karl Schiller, August Lübben: Middle Low German Dictionary . tape 4 . Verlag von J. Küthmanns Buchhandlung, Bremen 1878, p. 206 . Digitized