Heart well
As Sod or Sodbrunnen a dug is dug wells designated whose usually round well shaft to the water table drilled and lined with mostly dry layered rubble stones or pebbles. The well needs a lifting device that is used to raise the water to the surface. There are simple wells, draw wells with a reel, gallows wells or pump wells. Castle wells are often acid wells.
Demarcation
Unlike the Sodbrunnen referring running fountains its water via a pipe from a source. A spring well is created directly at a spring and therefore does not require a significant supply line. Wells access the groundwater, while cisterns use the surface / roof water.
Use of the word
The word is rarely used as an appellative , but it is still a common element in field names. Examples of such field names are Sod ( Glattfelden , Canton Zurich , Switzerland ), Sodacher ( Hasliberg , Canton Bern , Switzerland), Sodhüsli ( Twann-Tüscherz , Canton Bern, Switzerland).
Word origin
The noun Sod m. (Pl. Söde ) is with Old English sēað m. 'Hole, pit, source', Old Frisian sāth, sād m. 'Brunnen', Middle Low German sōd (t) m. Related to 'source, well, shaft'. It is a noun to the verb boil , meaning 'place where the spring water surges up'. Derivatives are Pumpsod for a well with a pump , sod bucket for well bucket , sod water for well water .
literature
- Sod, der In: Adelung : Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect , Volume 4. Leipzig 1801, p. 122 .
- Sodwell, m.. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 16 : Sea life – speaking - (X, 1st section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1905, Sp. 1398 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- Sōd m. In: Schweizerisches Idiotikon. Dictionary of the Swiss German language . Frauenfeld 1881 ff. Volume VII, Col. 317 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Gregor Frehner, Moritz Flury-Rova, Heinz Pantli: Brunnen I , leaflets of the Federal Office for Civil Protection, Protection of Cultural Property , status: 2003, p. 4 pdf