Bacon (road construction)
Specke , also Speck , Spicke , Spick , Spieke , Spich or Spöck , is a name that used to be widespread for a stick dam , stick path or beating path built from brushwood or wooden sticks to cross a damp valley or for a stick bridge to cross a flat river bed.
As early as 819, a Specprucca ( Speck Bridge ) is mentioned in the monastery chronicle Casus sancti Galli by Ratpert von St. Gallen , and there are still many river crossings called Speckbrücke, Spickebrücke or Späkebrücke.
Since the late Middle Ages, the name has been evidenced in unchanged form in both High German and Low German- speaking areas . It is derived from the Old High German spach , spacha , spaha = rod , bundle of wood, fascine , spache = dry wood, rice , and the derived spanahi , spechi = dam or dike made of brushwood and earth. This is where the names Speckdamm and Speckdeich come from. Today the word is part of numerous place and field names, such as B. Speckswinkel , Zell an der Speck , Diespeck and Speck (Bad Zwischenahn) . More than thirty settlements in the German-speaking hot bacon, specks, specks or in southern Germany, where the vowel in the vernacular has often changed to "ö" Spöck.
literature
- Friedrich Arnold: Wilhelm Christoph Settlements and migrations of German tribes: mostly after Hessian place names . Elwert, Marburg 1875, pp. 361-362
- Bacon. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 16 : Sea life – speaking - (X, 1st section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1905 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
Footnotes
- ↑ Speckdamm, Speckdeich. In: Jacob Grimm , Wilhelm Grimm (Hrsg.): German dictionary . tape 16 : Sea life – speaking - (X, 1st section). S. Hirzel, Leipzig 1905 ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).