Upstall
Upstall , also Uppstall, in other regions night pasture is a delimited piece of field that served as pasture for migrating cattle on summer nights . The Up-Stall was a piece of field bordered by fences, which on the summer nights served as pasture for the migrating cattle, which remained outside all summer.
Night pasture is an outdated legal term for a pasture on which the animals were only allowed to graze at night. It was reserved in particular for those draft animals that were needed during the day for cultivating the fields and for hauling and therefore could graze in the evening and at night if there was no stable feeding.
Upstall is used for this in the Fläming settlement area and its wider area. A pictorial representation can be found on a painting from 1780 from the area near Berlin. The word “Upstall” is of Flemish-Brabant origin and is translated as a fenced plot of land that the village community uses as a common pasture area . Sometimes, however, the German name Nachweide or Nachhutung is in use and can be proven in this form as a field name.
Nowadays the term can often be found as a term for developed urban or local areas that were built on a former night pasture. The names of the parcels created in this way are still often retained as street names or are adopted when naming newly created streets. In the Brandenburg area around Berlin, it is a common old field name . In particular, the name is common in Fläming south of Berlin. With the development of the country in the former border area to the Slavs, Flemings have settled here since the 13th century. The name can also be found in Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg as far as Pomerania. In other areas, night pasture is more in use.
“ Upstall , a quarry, moor, or pastureland with a light, open fence and used for viewing oil, in front of the Hallesches Tor on the right, between it and the Kreuzberg, on the way to this. Another upstall is in front of the Frankfurter Thore, to the right of the Chaussee, between the way to Bockshagen and Friedrichsfelde. The name seems to denote an always open fence. "
literature
- Night willow . In: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 9 , issue 9/10 (edited by Heino Speer and others). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1996, ISBN 3-7400-0983-7 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de ). . Volume IX, 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0005-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ City Museum Collection Inv.Nr. GEM 11 . Artist Friedrich Wilhelm Schaub: The upstall below the Tempelhof mountains . Oil on wood, dating Berlin around 1780.
- ↑ Hajo van Lengen (ed.): The Frisian freedom of the Middle Ages - life and legend . Verlag Ostfriesische Landschaft, 2003, ISBN 3-932206-30-4 , p. 424
- ↑ JGA Ludwig Helling (ed.): Historical-statistical-topographical pocket book of Berlin and its immediate surroundings . HAW Logier, Berlin 1830, google.com/books (PDF)