Wagges
The term Wagges or Wackes is used for natural stones as well as for people, whereby "Wagges" is a derivation from the outdated term Wacke for rocks. Basaltwacke is meant , a clay rock.
In the Rhineland , wagges are commonly used to refer to thicker field stones, so-called erratic boulders , which are found when plowing in the field . The same applies to large river pebbles that are rounded off by the water in mountain streams and rivers. The term Wagges or Wackerstein describes a thick, heavy stone.
In the Rhineland and Saarland, wagges are also used to describe French-speaking people, mostly Belgians and French . They came to the Rhineland after the French Revolution , initially during the occupation of the Rhineland by French troops, and later as Walloon entrepreneurs.
This name for people can be traced back to the natural building material used in Belgium and France for thousands of years. The houses were mainly built from gray quarry stone . Greywacke was mostly used for this. The use of gray quarry stone for house construction is already noticeable in the border area between Germany and Belgium.
literature
- Hans Seeling: Walloon industrial pioneers in Germany. Verlag Eugen Wahle, Lüttich 1983, ISBN 2-8701-1075-8 , 199 pages, 140 ills .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hans Seeling: Walloon industrial pioneers in Germany . Eugen Wahle, Lüttich 1983, ISBN 2-87011-075-8 , pp. 177 .