Field
Feldrain is an old German term for the edge strip of a field ( "floor boundary" ) and for the transition between one field terrace to the next ("stepped terrain"). A rain is a mostly grassy border strip between two fields or fields.
etymology
Old High German pure is only documented in compositions. Formations with the suffix -rain are common field names .
Use
Field margins used to be mowed with a scythe or herded with cattle once or twice a year to make hay . Today they are - depending on the region - often overgrown with hedges and bushes; in this way the fields can be protected from erosion by wind. Field borders offer habitats for birds and small organisms of all kinds and, from an ecological point of view, belong to the " fringing biotopes ". Like all these narrow and therefore not particularly conspicuous interfaces, they are endangered by plowing under, herbicides and the complete elimination of land consolidations .
Others
So-called “foot turns” are unused arable land on the (narrower) edge of a field. Agricultural machines need the space to turn.
Cultural history
Field crosses, as well as wayside shrines and sometimes even chapels, are often - regionally different - on field crosses .
See also
Web links
- Manfred Becher: Create field edge hedge yourself. In: What you can do yourself to protect the environment. Retrieved July 26, 2014 .
- Saumbiotopes: Grasraine and ruderal strips ( Memento from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive )