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92-471: The etymological roots of "Zuffenhausen" are assumed to be found in the name of a seventh century Alemanni settler " Uffo " or " Offo ". The oldest known official denotation as a property of Bebenhausen Abbey by Pope Innocent III dates to May 18, 1204. Zuffenhausen was proclaimed a city in 1907, yet soon financially badly affected by the Great Depression , Zuffenhausen and later Zazenhausen, agreed to

184-559: A Middle Triassic (240 to 230 million years) age and forms the middle part of the three-part Germanic Trias (that gives the Triassic its name) lying above the older Buntsandstein and below the younger Keuper . The Muschelkalk (" mussel - chalk ") consists of a sequence of limestone and dolomite beds . In the past, the time span in which the Muschelkalk was deposited could also be called "Muschelkalk". In modern stratigraphy , however,

276-419: A derivative . A derivative is one of the words which have their source in a root word, and were at some time created from the root word using morphological constructs such as suffixes, prefixes, and slight changes to the vowels or to the consonants of the root word. For example unhappy , happily , and unhappily are all derivatives of the root word happy . The terms root and derivative are used in

368-469: A suffixed etymon that was once meaningful, Latin castrum ' fort ' . Reflex is the name given to a descendant word in a daughter language, descended from an earlier language. For example, Modern English heat is the reflex of the Old English hǣtu. Rarely, this word is used in reverse, and the 'reflex' is actually the root word rather than the descendant word. However, this usage is usually filled by

460-473: A closer affinity with the Triassic Tethys realm . The Muschelkalk can be up to 100 meters thick; it is divisible into three subdivisions, of which the upper and lower are pale thin-bedded limestones with greenish-grey marls , the middle group being composed of gypsiferous and saliniferous marls with dolomite. Stylolites are common in all the Muschelkalk limestones. The lithostratigraphic status of

552-476: A comprehensive and chronological catalogue of all meanings and changes that a word (and its related parts) carries throughout its history. The origin of any particular word is also known as its etymology . For languages with a long written history , etymologists make use of texts, particularly texts about the language itself, to gather knowledge about how words were used during earlier periods, how they developed in meaning and form , or when and how they entered

644-625: A doubt, the Alemanni period in Zuffenhusen's history was the most influential for the layout of the town and its municipalities. Zuffenhausen's beginnings: The plot of land that made up Zuffenhausen at the time had a size of about 10 km (3.9 sq mi) and was determined by landmarks like the Burgholzhof (now part of Bad Cannstatt ), the Lemberg , Roman roads and old burial mounds. Initially, it

736-640: A few minor artifacts. Outside the city, another nine burial mounds have been identified, that seem to suggest a relationship to the late Hallstatt settlements of South-Stammheim , where waste pits and a storage cellars were found. Similarly such findings were made in Rot (a foot shackle made of bronze ) and in Neuwirtshaus. By far the largest discovery in the region is a massive Iron Age fortification with several walls that occupied an area of about 6,000 m (65,000 sq ft). The sparsely inhabited land north of

828-925: A high standard with the German Dictionary of the Brothers Grimm . The successes of the comparative approach culminated in the Neogrammarian school of the late 19th century. Still in the 19th century, German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche used etymological strategies (principally and most famously in On the Genealogy of Morals , but also elsewhere) to argue that moral values have definite historical (specifically, cultural) origins where modulations in meaning regarding certain concepts (such as "good" and "evil") show how these ideas had changed over time—according to which value-system appropriated them. This strategy gained popularity in

920-627: A larger connected forest area in Zuffenhausen, namely on the Lviv, (a translation of Lemberg by Google Translate) a mountain range rising from east to west with the Feuerbach vineyards on the south side and the wooded northern slope on the north side of the Zuffenhausen side. However, pieces of that primordial forest still exist as the "Hofkammerwald" (named after the man who once owned the land), an area of over 58 hectares (0.58 km) that has been operated by

1012-488: A long time by means of forest grazing, logging and gathering of fruit, as pastures and meadows in the present sense did not yet exist. However, especially in the Loess areas, the forests quickly faded by intensive use within decades and their composition also changed with Elm and Tilia disappearing almost completely. However, the settlements continued to be islands in a sea of forest. Loosely wooded forests existed as far back as

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1104-456: A settlement with its iconic banded ceramics in the northern and eastern areas of the district. Such settlements developed at the southern edge of the Long Field, where good loess was available. Since crop rotation was a yet unknown practice, early settlements and their residents had to practice Shifting cultivation (as evidenced by the aforementioned Linear Pottery culture) as the nutrients in

1196-494: A truth ' , and the suffix -logia , denoting ' the study or logic of ' . The etymon refers to the predicate (i.e. stem or root ) from which a later word or morpheme derives. For example, the Latin word candidus , which means ' white ' , is the etymon of English candid . Relationships are often less transparent, however. English place names such as Winchester , Gloucester , Tadcaster share in different modern forms

1288-465: A warmer climate and open wooded steppes during the Holocene period that were suitable for clearing and could be found in valleys. A few "Stool tombs" from this period have been discovered in hollow ditches, complete with grave goods . One of these graves contained one of the oldest examples of prepared food ( legumes , toasted bread , hazelnuts and flaxseed ), which was intended likely for provision in

1380-511: A waystation where travelers could exchange their horses for fresh mounts existed on this highway. By about 232/233 AD, Germanic peoples (the Alemanni especially) began to cause the destruction of the Empire from within and without. The cracks started showing in earnest when the Alemanni overran Agri Decumates in 260 and the wars of 353 to 378 AD (thus bringing Old High German into the region). Later,

1472-537: Is assumed that in 600 CE the settlement consisted of two estates - the first by the old Roman road near a large cemetery and the other on the site of a previous Pre-Roman settlement (likely built to protect an east–west river crossing) as marked by the existence of large Alemanni burial mounds which yielded rich caches of artifacts. By the mid-7th century, these two settlements were joined, thus creating early Zuffenhausen. Etymological Etymology ( / ˌ ɛ t ɪ ˈ m ɒ l ə dʒ i / , ET -im- OL -ə-jee )

1564-528: Is divided into six formations: Jena Formation , Rüdersdorf Formation , Udelfangen Formation , Freudenstadt Formation and Eschenbach Formation . The Lower Muschelkalk is sometimes called Wellenkalk , German : Welle the "wave" chalk, so called on account of the buckled wavy character the bedding has received. In the Saarland and Alsace and northern Eifel , the Lower Muschelkalk has more sandy beds,

1656-602: Is known. The earliest of attested etymologies can be found in Vedic literature in the philosophical explanations of the Brahmanas , Aranyakas , and Upanishads . The analyses of Sanskrit grammar done by the previously mentioned linguists involved extensive studies on the etymology (called Nirukta or Vyutpatti in Sanskrit) of Sanskrit words, because the ancient Indians considered sound and speech itself to be sacred and, for them,

1748-528: Is manifested in the presence of countless quarries and the many fossil discoveries from a layer of Muschelkalk at the bottom of this formation, that surfaces on several locations. On top are layers of Lettenkeuper and Gipskeuper that indicate the area's height around sea level at the time of the Triassic period . Following that is the Schilfsandstein ; sediment deposited here, that originates from an old river delta of an ancient river system , of which

1840-473: Is not readily obvious that the English word set is related to the word sit (the former is originally a causative formation of the latter). It is even less obvious that bless is related to blood (the former was originally a derivative with the meaning "to mark with blood"). Semantic change may also occur. For example, the English word bead originally meant "prayer". It acquired its modern meaning through

1932-417: Is often composed entirely of the fragmentary stems of the crinoid Encrinus liliiformis ; higher up come beds with a series of ammonites , Ceratites compressus , Ceratites nodosus , and Ceratites semipartitus in ascending order. In Swabia and Franconia the highest beds are platy dolomites with Tringonodus sandergensis and the crustacean Bairdia . In addition to the fossils mentioned above,

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2024-519: Is often traced to Sir William Jones , a Welsh philologist living in India , who in 1782 observed the genetic relationship between Sanskrit , Greek and Latin . Jones published his The Sanscrit Language in 1786, laying the foundation for the field of Indo-European linguistics . The study of etymology in Germanic philology was introduced by Rasmus Christian Rask in the early 19th century and elevated to

2116-777: Is the modern custom. In Southern Germany , the Mesolithic cultures at that point present were replaced by the Hinkelstein culture , the Großgartacher culture, the Planig-Friedberg culture, and the Rössen culture . These groups made little to no record of their existence in Zuffenhausen but a site belonging to the Großgartach culture was discovered in the district near Mühlhausen village. The Neolithic Age of south-western Germany begins with

2208-547: Is the most absurd, which derives this word from pons, and assigns the priests the title of bridge-makers. The sacrifices performed on the bridge were amongst the most sacred and ancient, and the keeping and repairing of the bridge attached, like any other public sacred office, to the priesthood. Isidore of Seville compiled a volume of etymologies to illuminate the triumph of religion. Each saint's legend in Jacobus de Varagine 's Legenda Aurea begins with an etymological discourse on

2300-435: Is the study of the origin and evolution of words, including their constituent units of sound and of meaning , across time. In the 21st century a subfield within linguistics , etymology has become a more rigorously scientific study. Most directly tied to historical linguistics , philology , and semiotics , it additionally draws upon comparative semantics , morphology , pragmatics , and phonetics in order to attempt

2392-513: The Muschelsandstein ., "mussel sandstone" The Middle Muschelkalk or Anbydnite Group consists mainly of evaporites (gypsum, anhydrite and halite ) and is divided into three formations: Karlstadt Formation , Heilbronn Formation and Diemel Formation . The sedimentary facies at the margins of the Germanic Basin is different and these deposits are classified as a separate formation,

2484-500: The SS siedlung had already been founded in 1938. In the course of the plans for re-division of 1956, all administration in Stuttgart was completely restructured. Since January 1, 2001, after yet another administrative reorganization of the municipalities of Stuttgart, Zuffenhausen is endowed with 11 municipalities. Zuffenhausen remains an important local and international industrial center, as

2576-777: The Bronze Age can be found in the area of Zuffenhausen, even though barrows from the Iron Age Hallstatt culture and later times are present. However, in nearby Ludwigsburg and Weilimdorf , Bronze Age barrows do exist, although the smaller tombs were all destroyed by farming and irrigation. Artifacts of the Urnfield people were excavated at the Hohlgraben , Friedrichshaller Street in Zuffenhausen itself and in Neuwirtshaus , such as ceramics, bronze brooches and Rainbow cups , which are

2668-514: The Castrum , were still numerous throughout the region and existed to supply the plebeian soldiers and patrician officers alike. In Baden-Württemberg alone, at least a thousand such estates are known to exist and the majority thereof in the fertile Neckar river valley around Zuffenhausen, Bad Cannstatt, Ludwigsburg, and Heilbronn . With the Romans came horticulture , the vineyards that still blanket

2760-610: The Danube river and east of the Rhine river that Roman geographer Claudius Ptolemy called the "Helvetii Wastelands" came under Roman administration in the late 1st century CE. Gradually, border fortresses and the Rhaetian Limes as well as towns and cities were established. Increasingly documented by written sources, a Roman provincial culture emerged in this Agri Decumates of Germania Superior with Mainz (then known as Mogontiacum ) as

2852-486: The Feuerbach river, has two distinct elevations: Zuffenhausen with an average of 255 m (837 ft) and Zazenhausen at 252 m (827 ft). To the north and northwest are the vast stretches of the Langes Feld rolling hills on a height of over 300 m (980 ft) that peak at 327 m (1,073 ft) near Neuwirtshaus, an area that constitutes the eastern Strohgäu , a rich farmland largely free of trees. To

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2944-676: The Grafenwöhr Formation , which continues into the Upper Muschelkalk. In the Middle Muschelkalk, weathering can form characteristic cellular dolomite ( Zellendolomit ). The Upper Muschelkalk ( Hauptmuschelkalk ) is similar to the Lower Muschelkalk and consists of regular beds of shelly limestone, marl and dolomite. It is divided into six formations: Trochitenkalk , Meißner Formation , Irrel Formation , Gilsdorf Formation and Warburg Formation . The lower portion or Trochitenkalk

3036-586: The Great Depression . The convenient location of Zuffenhausen on the bank of the Neckar River led to a sharp incline in population during the Industrial Revolution , when the purely rural character of Zuffenhausen was finally phased out. On May 1, 1933 Zazenhausen , Neuwirtshaus , and Zuffenhausen were united in one district. Starting in 1949, Zuffenhausen became increasingly important to Stuttgart as an industrial district. The " Rotwegsiedlung ", called

3128-771: The Low Countries , the North Sea and parts of Silesia , Poland and Denmark . Outcrops are found in Thuringia , the Harz , Franconia , Hesse , Swabia , and the Saarland and in Alsace . The Muschelkalk was deposited in a land-locked sea which, in the earlier part of its existence, had only imperfect communications with the more open waters of the Tethys Ocean to the south. The basin in which

3220-535: The Löwenstein Formation . Landscape development : The diverse landscape present in Zuffenhausen is the result of a disparate geological history the deposited various soils and rocks of differing density and solubility. The ice ages of the Pleistocene era completed the recent physiography , composed largely of Loess , Brown and Black soils , the prerequisites for later agricultural use, that began during

3312-584: The Middle Ages , Zuffenhausen was often mistakenly referred to as " Offenhausen " and " Ottohausen " due to differences in Alemannic German and later German tongues. For most of its history, Zuffenhausen has served as valuable farmland for its owners. On April 23, 1907, during the reign of King William II of Württemberg , Zuffenhausen became a city and would later be incorporated into Stuttgart on March 31, 1931, following financial difficulties symptomatic of

3404-505: The Migration Period is obtained by archaeological excavations. In the so-called "Expansion Phase" of the 7th century the Alemanni experienced the introduction of Christianity and a small explosion of population under strong Franconian-Merovingian influence. Places using the suffixes -hausen and -hofen developed in the region, especially in the north, such as Zuffenhausen, Zazenhausen, Mühlhausen, Viesenhausen and Hofen. Without

3496-560: The Neolithic Revolution with the Linear Pottery culture . Though these fertile soils were spread generously across the river valley, some areas were less fertile than others and were thus better suited for pastures . In the succeeding Holocene epoch , the landscape changed from Tundra into Deciduous forest , whose composition changed several times parallel to climate fluctuations. The Linear Pottery culture , established since

3588-679: The Schwieberdinger culture that had developed into a distinct regional style during the 5th Millennium BC and was followed by the Schussenrieder culture . Late Neolithic , Chalcolithic : Though hardly evident in Zuffenhausen, the usage and creation of copper tools by the Goldberg III culture and the Horgen culture with the earliest wheel discoveries had become widespread in Upper Swabia by

3680-474: The Second World War as agricultural lands were leveled with debris and overburden. Miscellaneous changes to the landscape includes the filling in of a few old quarries and clay pits in the Feuerbach river valley, and the creation of a high plateau of an old ditch that came down from Stammheim, which now serves as an expansion of Zuffenhausen's cemetery . The flora and fauna are quite diverse, even though

3772-561: The Upper Paleolithic . In 1879, four hand scrapers and pieces of flint and mammoth bone pieces were discovered at Hofäcker brickyard . Whether they can be attributed to Neanderthals or early modern humans is unknown. At this time, Europe's landscape was glacial tundra , where ancient hunter gatherer societies followed and hunted the large herds of Mammoths , Reindeer , and Wild horses that migrated around ancient Stuttgart. Mesolithic : Initially, humans living here during

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3864-505: The coat of arms of Zazenhausen . Since the emergence of a concern for the conservation of natural habitats and the creation of an association for local biospheres in 2003, nature reserves have been declared as conservation areas by the local government. Most of the vineyards on the western slope of the Feuerbach river in the region were made fully operational between 1976 and 1979. Environmental protection : In response to prolonged pollution with nitrogen oxide and particulates from

3956-453: The 18th century, such as lush oak forests of the Burgholzhof , which were used for pig farming, and as pointed out by names such as Wannenwald , Kögelwald and Lorcher Mönchswald . The Lembergwald also stretched farther east than now and was a ducal hunting forest, which must have been so profitable that it was worthwhile to erect a hunting castle on the Schlotwiese . Today there are only

4048-430: The 20th century, and philosophers, such as Jacques Derrida , have used etymologies to indicate former meanings of words to de-center the "violent hierarchies" of Western philosophy . Muschelkalk The Muschelkalk (German for "shell-bearing limestone"; French : calcaire coquillier ) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit ) in the geology of central and western Europe. It has

4140-476: The Alemanni would also expand into Alsace before being conquered by Clovis and the Franks . As Roman central leadership slowly withered and died with the rest of the Empire, the Romans left the region to its own devices. When the Alemanni became the new masters of the region, they began to organize it into territories. With the Romans left written documents become sparse and knowledge of Zuffenhausen's history during

4232-591: The City of Stuttgart as a community forest since 1968. The eastern part of the forest is the present city park, the northern section near Neuwirtshaus is now Schützenwies Forest , the westernmost part in Weilimdorf is now called the Maierwald . The modern course and the valley marshes of the Feuerbach exist since the Holocene , which created large deposits of fine material during high tides of up to 8 m (26 ft) as

4324-507: The Mesolithic era were nomadic . Several tool storage pits dating back to the Mesolithic period have been discovered in the Stuttgart area, primarily in Bad Cannstatt and Burgholzhof in the Zuffenhausen district, that contained microliths , characteristic for the Mesolithic . Early Neolithic ( Linear Pottery ): The primary discoveries dating back to this period include the remains of

4416-487: The Muschelkalk differs regionally. In Germany it is considered a group , in the Netherlands a formation . The German Muschelkalk Group is subdivided into three subgroups: Upper, Middle and Lower Muschelkalk. The Lower Muschelkalk consists mainly of limestone, calcareous marls and clayey marls. Some beds are composed of porous cellular limestone, the so-called Schaumkalk , there are also oolite beds. The Lower Muschelkalk

4508-621: The Muschelkalk was deposited is called the Germanic Basin . Sometimes stratigraphic units with the same age from the Alps , southern Europe and even Asia are called Muschelkalk too. Of course these rocks have little history in common with the central European Muschelkalk except for similarities in fossil content. Closer at hand, the Alpine Muschelkalk differs in many respects from that of Central Europe, and in its characteristic fossil fauna has

4600-402: The adoption of " loanwords " from other languages); word formation such as derivation and compounding ; and onomatopoeia and sound symbolism (i.e., the creation of imitative words such as "click" or "grunt"). While the origin of newly emerged words is often more or less transparent, it tends to become obscured through time due to sound change or semantic change. Due to sound change , it

4692-405: The afterlife journey and allow conclusions regarding their religious ideas which probably included ancestor worship . They cultivated einkorn , emmer and wheat , but only after the cutting down and incineration of nearby mixed oak forests by early settlements in need of new lands for crops. As is common knowledge, the Neolithic Revolution saw the birth of civilization and Zuffenhausen

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4784-425: The analysis of morphological derivation within a language in studies that are not concerned with historical linguistics and that do not cross the language barrier. Etymologists apply a number of methods to study the origins of words, some of which are: Etymological theory recognizes that words originate through a limited number of basic mechanisms, the most important of which are language change , borrowing (i.e.,

4876-401: The area in case of flooding, yet to be close enough to a water source and the major trade routes . The geology of Zuffenhausen is, by the nature of a cuesta landscape, determined by a topographically varied picture of the different layers of rock and sediment as they were deposited in the 240 to 145 million year span of time that Zuffenhausen was part of the bottom of a tropical ocean. This

4968-451: The city's most important transport hub ( Pragsattel ) has always traversed the area. On August 29, 1797 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe drove through Zuffenhausen on this road while on his third trip to Switzerland from Ludwigsburg . The location of settlements in the municipal area was determined by the quality of the soil, proximity to the river and the necessity to build high enough that the Feuerbach and its tributaries would not inundate

5060-426: The density and composition of the bedrock as Muschelkalk with its many crevices permits percolation that causes superficial outflows. Since the 19th century, people have also considerably changed the geographical features of Zuffenhausen via the development of railway lines and roads, the excavated material was used to fill depressions and drain local ponds. Until very recently, the settlement of Zuffenhausen itself

5152-587: The era of recorded history during the period of the Alemanni tribes. Paleolithic : Numerous findings and excavations in the area suggest the usage of hills in the region as paleolithic rest stops as far back as the Middle Paleolithic (300,000 years ago), suggesting that early peoples came through the region frequently. Further substantiation is corroborated by tools and processed bones discovered at travertine quarries in nearby Bad Cannstatt . The first finds made in Zuffenhausen itself originate only from

5244-531: The fauna have declined in number since the introduction of sealed roads . Birds, however, are less affected by the loss of habitat thanks to generously sized home gardens and the Hofkammerwald . Located west of Zuffenhausen are larger forests and different types of semi-arid grassland between increasingly marginal fields and by now almost totally absent pastures and orchards , that were the most important assets of Zuffenhausen's economy until 1907, still visible on

5336-448: The first to make a comprehensive analysis of linguistics and etymology. The study of Sanskrit etymology has provided Western scholars with the basis of historical linguistics and modern etymology. Four of the most famous Sanskrit linguists are: These linguists were not the earliest Sanskrit grammarians, however. They followed a line of ancient grammarians of Sanskrit who lived several centuries earlier like Sakatayana of whom very little

5428-526: The following are Muschelkalk forms: Coenothyris vulgaris, Mentzelia mentzeli and Spiriferina hirsuta, Myophoria vulgaris, Rhynchotites hirundo, Ceratites munsteri, Ptychites studeri, Balatonites balatonicus, Aspidura scutellata, Daonella lommeli , and in the Alpine region several rock-forming algae (for example, Baciryllium, Gyroporella, and Diplopora ). The salt beds are worked at Halle (Saale) , Bad Friedrichshall , Heilbronn , Szczecin and Erfurt . It

5520-407: The hills around Stuttgart , the orchards , Roman roads , factory produced pottery ( Terra sigillata ), and culture of the Romans . Overall, Roman archeological sites inside Stuttgart are extremely numerous. The area of Zuffenhausen contains numerous of these cultural testimonies, such as several estates spread across the south and southeastern parts of the river valley that made intensive use of

5612-594: The incorporation into Stuttgart city on 1 April 1931. Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen station on the Franconia Railway is served by lines S4, S5, S6 and S60 of the Stuttgart S-Bahn . The headquarters of Porsche and the Porsche Museum are located in Zuffenhausen. Stuttgart Neuwirtshaus (Porscheplatz) station is nearby and served by lines S6 and S60. Zuffenhausen's terrain, a river valley carved into existence by

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5704-515: The landscape of Zuffenhausen, such as land restoration , the creation of wildlife corridors , and the establishment of green development plans. Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen has been consistently inhabited for about 7500 years. Paleo-Humans, such as Neanderthals and Homo erectus have stalked the rich and abundant wildlife present for roughly 300,000 years, as evidenced by the discovery of early tools typically made of mammoth bones at Travertine quarries in nearby Cannstatt and Ludwigsburg . During

5796-437: The language. Etymologists also apply the methods of comparative linguistics to reconstruct information about forms that are too old for any direct information to be available. By analyzing related languages with a technique known as the comparative method , linguists can make inferences about their shared parent language and its vocabulary. In this way, word roots in many European languages, for example, can be traced back to

5888-558: The locality of the headquarter of Porsche automobiles. The prehistoric finds made in Zuffenhausen district and surrounding areas ( Lemburg , Burgholzhof, Stammheim, and Viesenhäuser Hof) date back to the Neolithic and rank among some of the oldest and most diverse of the Urban districts of Stuttgart . Though many settlements from the Neolithic to the Iron Age have existed, Zuffenhausen entered

5980-429: The mid 6th Millennium BC started to slowly turn the area into a Cultural landscape around central settlements that featured patterns of pastures and fields for agriculture, as hunting accounted for only 10% of meat consumption. These settlements must be imagined as increasingly large settlement chambers enclosed in forest, which at that time covered Middle-Europe. Still, the forest remained economically irreplaceable for

6072-416: The mid-4th Millennium BC. Settlers of the Beaker culture , another mid-4th Millennium culture in Neolithic Europe, left behind multiple examples of their typical pottery, flat graves and jewelry in a region stretching from Zuffenhausen to Kornwestheim . Other notable early Bronze Age items in the Zuffenhausen area are various pottery caches attributed to the Corded ware culture . Next to no barrows from

6164-453: The name only applies to the layers of rock. The name Muschelkalk was first used by German geologist Georg Christian Füchsel (1722-1773). In 1834, Friedrich August von Alberti included it into the Triassic system . The name indicates a characteristic feature of the unit, namely the frequent occurrence of lenticular banks composed of fossil shells. The Muschelkalk is restricted to the subsurface in most of Germany and adjacent regions as

6256-400: The nearby Alps . It has a fault height of about 110 m (360 ft), from which rise the mineral waters of nearby Cannstatt . In Zuffenhausen it led to the fact that, due to its irregular course, greatly disturbed by collapses of quarries, Muschelkalk and Gipskeuper alternately surfaced at about the same height and further to the west near Neuwirtshaus even elements of ragstone and

6348-426: The obvious, and actual "bridge-builder": The priests, called Pontifices.... have the name of Pontifices from potens , powerful because they attend the service of the gods, who have power and command overall. Others make the word refer to exceptions of impossible cases; the priests were to perform all the duties possible; if anything lays beyond their power, the exception was not to be cavilled. The most common opinion

6440-487: The one near the old village, nicknamed the Alte Flecken ( German : old stain, or old spot ). In modern times, the entire water network is oriented on the Neckar , but the Feuerbach is still an important part of it featuring several tributaries of its own coming mostly from the west. The old town center was hardly affected by floods because of its location on the elevated west bank. A few old creeks and streams would later become city streets. The water network depended on

6532-437: The only demonstrable pieces of evidence for the settlement of Zuffenhausen during the Bronze Age. Inside the city district of Zuffenhausen, six hills inside Schelmenwasen city park have been identified as grave mounds. They stand at about 0.3 to 2 m (0.98 to 6.56 ft), above ground and have a diameter of 15 to 33 m (49 to 108 ft). Unfortunately, when the mounds were opened, they only wielded bone fragments and

6624-437: The only remains are to be found on the highest areas of the Burgholzhof and the Lemberg . Higher layers are not expected to be found in the area due to the relatively low elevation and only occur in relation to local faultlines . Zuffenhausen area is traversed by a huge faultline , called the "Schwieberdinger-Zuffenhäuser-Cannstatter rejection" , which was formed 65 million years ago by the tectonic activities that created

6716-714: The origin of the Indo-European language family . Even though etymological research originated from the philological tradition, much current etymological research is done on language families where little or no early documentation is available, such as Uralic and Austronesian . The word etymology is derived from the Ancient Greek word ἐτυμολογία ([ἐτυμολογία] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script ( help ) ), itself from ἔτυμον ([ἔτυμον] Error: {{Transliteration}}: transliteration text not Latin script ( help ) ), meaning ' true sense or sense of

6808-433: The practice of counting the recitation of prayers by using beads. The search for meaningful origins for familiar or strange words is far older than the modern understanding of linguistic evolution and the relationships of languages, which began no earlier than the 18th century. From Antiquity through the 17th century, from Pāṇini to Pindar to Sir Thomas Browne , etymology had been a form of witty wordplay, in which

6900-574: The production of the tools using techniques such as stone grinding had become traditional. Such findings are spread across the region between Neuwirtshaus , Friedrichswahl , Zazenhausen and Rot and even beyond the Feuerbach river valley. The site of the old town center was an unsuitable location for the longhouses of the Linear Pottery culture (usually about 20 to 40 m (66 to 131 ft) long, typically held up to 60 persons and their cattle) as it

6992-473: The region's capital and seat of the governor. From 85 to 90 CE, one of the most important Roman forts north of the Alps was built on the Altenburg near Bad Cannstatt . This fortress, now known as Castrum Stuttgart Bad Cannstatt , spanned about 37,400 m (403,000 sq ft), housed 500 horsemen, and had about 20 towers. Civilian estates (mostly Villa rustica ), while being nowhere near as gigantic as

7084-455: The relationship between two languages on the basis of similarity of grammar and lexicon was made in 1770 by the Hungarian, János Sajnovics , when he attempted to demonstrate the relationship between Sami and Hungarian (work that was later extended to the whole Finno-Ugric language family in 1799 by his fellow countryman, Samuel Gyarmathi ). The origin of modern historical linguistics

7176-543: The relatively heavy traffic nearby that caused forest damage and the ongoing disruptions of the formation of the water table a comprehensive environmental protection program has been established. Noise pollution in the area is attributed to the Bundesautobahn 81 , Bundesstraße 10 , 27 , 27a , the Stuttgart S-Bahn and the Stuttgarter Straßenbahnen . Measures have been made to improve the situation faced by

7268-438: The roughly 4000 traces of prehistoric settlement like Hallstatt houses would indicate that this area was a favorite haunt of early civilization. Middle Neolithic : Starting at the end of the 6th Millennium BC, the decoration on the pottery changed, stone axes began to actually have holes for the handle instead of the usage of glue or a splice. The dead were no longer buried in fetal position but instead lying on their backs as

7360-510: The saint's name: Lucy is said of light, and light is beauty in beholding, after that S. Ambrose saith: The nature of light is such, she is gracious in beholding, she spreadeth over all without lying down, she passeth in going right without crooking by right long line; and it is without dilation of tarrying, and therefore it is showed the blessed Lucy hath beauty of virginity without any corruption; essence of charity without disordinate love; rightful going and devotion to God, without squaring out of

7452-402: The same language. Although they have the same etymological root, they tend to have different phonological forms, and to have entered the language through different routes. A root is the source of related words within a single language (no language barrier is crossed). Similar to the distinction between etymon and root , a nuanced distinction can sometimes be made between a descendant and

7544-408: The sixteenth century. Etymologicum genuinum is a grammatical encyclopedia edited at Constantinople in the ninth century, one of several similar Byzantine works. The thirteenth-century Legenda Aurea , as written by Jacobus de Varagine , begins each vita of a saint with a fanciful excursus in the form of an etymology. The Sanskrit linguists and grammarians of ancient India were

7636-501: The soil (regardless of its fertility), as the need for food was enormous and required an extensive road network. One of the main southwestern Roman roads in Germany, marked by Roman milestones, started at Mainz ( Mogontiacum ) and passed through Schwieberdingen , up the alps and finally to Heidenheim an der Brenz . Even 2,000 years later, this rectilinear route to Schwieberdingen is nearly identical to its modern counterpart. In Neuwirtshaus,

7728-415: The soil became depleted. Even with the practice of shifting cultivation, archaeological evidence shows that dimensions of the fields and the settlements were too large. After about three years of use, the field would deplete and require decades to regain the lost fertility (longhouses typically would stand for about 30 to 50 years). Due to the existence of such types of soils it is implied that there used to be

7820-644: The south are the Stuttgart Mountains and the Neckar valley to the east, followed by the Schurwald mountains. Irregular ascents are characteristic for the Zuffenhausen region, of which Burgholzhof is the highest at 359 m (1,178 ft) above sea level. Zuffenhausen's and the northern part of the Stuttgart Bay's topography are crucial for transport and settlement planning, as a central north–south axis of

7912-535: The supposed origins of words were creatively imagined to satisfy contemporary requirements; for example, the Greek poet Pindar (born in approximately 522 BCE) employed inventive etymologies to flatter his patrons. Plutarch employed etymologies insecurely based on fancied resemblances in sounds . Isidore of Seville 's Etymologiae was an encyclopedic tracing of "first things" that remained uncritically in use in Europe until

8004-427: The term etymon instead. A reflex will sometimes be described simply as a descendant , derivative or derived from an etymon (but see below). Cognates or lexical cognates are sets of words that have been inherited in direct descent from an etymological ancestor in a common parent language. Doublets or etymological twins or twinlings (or possibly triplets, and so forth) are specifically cognates within

8096-464: The way; right long line by continual work without negligence of slothful tarrying. In Lucy is said, the way of light. Etymology in the modern sense emerged in the late 18th-century European academia, within the context of the wider " Age of Enlightenment ", although preceded by 17th century pioneers such as Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn , Gerardus Vossius , Stephen Skinner , Elisha Coles , and William Wotton . The first known systematic attempt to prove

8188-679: The words of the sacred Vedas contained deep encoding of the mysteries of the soul and God. One of the earliest philosophical texts of the Classical Greek period to address etymology was the Socratic dialogue Cratylus ( c.  360 BCE ) by Plato . During much of the dialogue, Socrates makes guesses as to the origins of many words, including the names of the gods. In his Odes Pindar spins complimentary etymologies to flatter his patrons. Plutarch ( Life of Numa Pompilius ) spins an etymology for pontifex , while explicitly dismissing

8280-501: Was a swampy floodplain (the average temperatures of the climate were about 2 to 3 degrees higher than they are now), so they built their villages (typically a cluster of 10 or so buildings) at more elevated locations that still had a decent amount of loess . Another notable series of local discoveries are the about 200 tombs belonging to the Bandkeramik peoples in the 6th millennium BC have been unearthed. These findings, when combined with

8372-405: Was confined to the valley created by the Feuerbach eons ago. The landscape changed during the massive expansion of settlements beyond the Feuerbach valley, especially during the second half of the 19th century to the west and to the east, after 1945, with the introduction of Sealed roads and the rerouting of streams in unprecedented scale. Further profound changes on the landscape took place after

8464-714: Was no different. As the longhouses on the various farmsteads that would soon become small farming villages began to stand at a length of about 40 feet (12 m), man began to keep domesticated sheep , pigs , and goats . The remains of several of these early sites have been discovered in the Zuffenhausen area from many different phases of the Early Neolithic period. The largest of these sites, located in Rot , yielded many individual finds of flint tools (blades, scrapers , axes, Quern-stones ) and even inkstones and ceramics. The large amount of flint tools, blades in particular, suggests that

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