Tofting
Tofting was a village yard in the district of North Friesland in the area of today's municipality of Oldenswort, which was inhabited for several centuries .
history
Tofting is north of Tönning . Excavations carried out by Albert Bantelmann between 1949 and 1953 showed that the first houses had already been built in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD on a bank wall about 1.40 m (above sea level ) on an old bend of the Eider. According to the results, the individual living spaces were continuously increased with dung and clay until the 5th and 6th centuries .
The Wurt's economy was based on livestock farming . The salt marshes in the area around the village yard provided the grazing land. In the summer months, cereals could also be grown on higher areas. However, the population also benefited from maritime trade , as finds from Roman terra sigillata show. The discovery of two house cat skeletons is also remarkable. These are considered to be the oldest in Schleswig-Holstein. The excavations showed many similarities with the Ingwäonen settlements at the southern mouth of the Elbe. The Chauken, among others, are said to have settled there at the same time .
The place name was first documented in writing in 1535. Probably the name goes back to the North Frisian Toftum with the meaning to the Toften (≈ house places) and was only later under Niederdt. Influence reinterpreted as ing (similar to Garding and Ording ).
literature
- Albert Bantelmann: Tofting. A prehistoric terp at the mouth of the Eider . Wachholtz, Neumünster 1955.
- Dirk Meier: The North Sea coast. Story of a landscape . Boyens, Heide 2006, ISBN 3-8042-1182-8 .
- Ernst Schwarz: Germanic tribal lore . VMA Verlag Wiesbaden 2010, ISBN 978-3-938586-10-5
- Nordfrisk Institute (ed.): The history of North Friesland. Boyens, Heide 1996, ISBN 3-8042-0759-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Laur: Historisches Ortsnamelexikon von Schleswig-Holstein , 2nd edition, Neumünster 1992, p. 651
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 40.7 " N , 8 ° 56 ′ 33.3" E