Historical field names
Old field names are interesting in several respects: they provide information about the life in the area at that time and are at the same time often witnesses of past linguistic usage – words and names that have often still influenced the language today.
At that time, they served mainly to clarify and define the orientation outside the local boundaries.
In the Harxheim district there are a number of signs to historical field names, they go back to the work of the late Harxheim Prof. Dr. Klaus Faiß, updated by the HVV Harxheim in the years 2021 / 2022.
Field names
"Flurnamen (...) are names for agriculturally used areas (fields, meadows, vineyards, fallow land,...
Old Mommenheimer Street
Harxheim field name1 "IN THE HAMMER" (probably 17th c.) The name for this field designation could...
Küchelbergweg
Harxheim field name1 "IN THE BEAN MORNING"The local field name "Im Bohnenmorgen" possibly refers...
Field path on Nack
Harxheim field name1 "IN DER KÜHHOHL" (1685)This was the name given to a pasture used especially...
Lieth
Harxheim field name1 "LIETH" (1309)The meaning of the name "Lieth" is not entirely clear. The...
Field path through Kalmit
Harxheim field name1 "KALMIT" (1309)The name consists of Middle High German "kal / kalwe" (bald)...
Field path in the Lochsteig
Harxheim field name1 "AUF DEM HARTENBERG" (1413)In old documents the name always appears with the...
Wingertsweg Alte Rindssteig / Old cattle trail
Harxheim field name1 "BEHIND HAUSEN" (1304)The name "Hinter Hausen", in which Middle High German...
Feldweg an der Schnur / Field path on the string
Harxheim field name1 "IM HEIDENLOCH" (1413)The word "heath" in this place by no means means an...
Am Schloßberg / At the castle hill
Harxheim field name1 "at / in the castle hill"This is a reinterpretation of the field name "Am /...
Unterer Börnchenweg / Lower Börnchenweg
Harxheim field name1 "OSTERSTEIG / ON THE OSTERSTEIG" (1309)The Ostersteig owes its name to an...
