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Die Schandrhaaser Dorfbrunne
[Banater Post Nr.5-6, 15. März 2016]
‘s is kaum zu
glawe, wie villi Brune in so’me Schwowedorf ware.
Bei uns in Schandrhaas hat so zimmlich jedes Haus
sei Brunne ghat, meischtens a Schwenglbrunne. Die
ware net sehr tief, runderumm mit Ziglsteen odr
Zimentrohre ingfasst. Am Schwengl hat a holzeni
Stang ghong, mit ‘me Eemer am End. Mit dere Stang
hat mer de leere Eemer zimmlich leicht runner losse,
un ‘ne dann voll Wasser ruff ziehe kenne.
Newe dem Brunne hat oft a Trooch odr
a Fass gstann, wu mer hat kenne ‘s Viech tränke odr
aach sich im Fass bade. De Brunne war meischtens
mit’me holzene Rahme umgfasst, so dass Mensche un
Viech net ningfall sin. Manchi Leit han de Schwengel
mit‘ner Roll ersetzt, dann hat mer an ‘me Rad so
groß wie e Waansrad gedreht, um de Eemer ruff odr
runner zu losse. Anri han de Brunne zugeleet un a
Pump druffgsetzt, der war dann eenfacher zu bediene,
awr mr hat ke Milone un aach ke Rakiflasch mehr
inkiehle kenne.
Manchi Leit han druff bstann, dass
ihre Brunne gutes Wasser ghat hat. Des hat mer awwr
wirklich net behaupte kenne, weil des Wasser iwwrall
hart war. Mer hat drmit Supp koche kenne, sogar Tee
odr Kaffee, mer hat’s sogar trinke kenne, awwr for
die Wäsch hat mer Reenwasser gebraucht. Jedes Haus
hat for dess sei Reenbrunne ghat, der war awwr nor e
gemauertes Loch in der Erd, wu mer ‘s Reenwasser vun
eener Dachrinn uffghob hat.
Besseres Trinkwasser hat mer vun de
Pumpbrunne ghol. In dr Mitte vun jedm Dorfviertl,
dort wu sich die Newetsgasse gekreizt han un mit de
schrächgstellte Häiser so e Achteck gebild han, hat
e Pumpbrunne gstan. Im Schulhoff han mer aach e
Pumpbrunne ghat; vun dem kann ich saan, dass ‘s
Wasser net gut gschmeckt hat, weil de Brunne jo net
tief war.
‘s beschti Wasser im Dorf hat mer
vum Rondeller Brunne hole misse. Der hat newer dr
Kerch gstann, uff dr anri Seit vun
dr Landstroß.
Er is im 1920er Johr gebohrt gin un
war hunnert Meter tief (nor gut dass se net uff
Erdeel gstoß sin!). Des Wassr hat mir un anri besser
gschmeckt wie ‘s Leitungswasser in Temeschwar. Die
Pump war so hoch, dass mr owwe a Rohr angebrung hat,
wu die Feierwehr hat kenne drunner fahre un ihre
Wasserween odr Zisterne fille.
De Rondeller Brunne is aach de
Busselbrunne genennt gin, weil's efter vorkumm it,
dass sich dort am Owed zufällich Mädle un Buwe
getroff han - was dann passiert is, gell, des wees
jo a jeder.
Heit hat’s Dorf aach Wasserleitung
un de
Busselbrunne steht nimmer uff seim
Platz. Un außerdem han die Gasse elektrischi
Beleichtung. Des is so de Fortschritt. Mir Alte
denke awwr manchmol an drhemm, an
die alti Zeit, un an die alti Brunne
zuruck. Am schenschte hat des villeichr unsr
Landsmann Hans Wolfram Hockl gsaat:
„Wie die Johr so schnell vergehn,
die mei Kruch ball fille,
Eemol norr mecht ich dort stehn
Un mei Dorscht
noch stille“.
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The
village wells of Alexanderhausen
Translated by Nick Tullius, Jun 3, 2016
It's hard to
believe how many wells existed in a Swabian village.
In my native Alexanderhausen, pretty much every
house had its well, usually one with a swing-bar.
These were not very deep, but fully enclosed with
brick or cement pipes. To the swing-bar was attached
a long wooden pole terminated with a bucket. With
this pole it was quite easy to let the empty bucket
down and then draw it back up filled with water.
A trough or a barrel often stood
next to the fountain, where the cattle could drink
or one could take a bathe in the barrel. Above
ground the fountain was generally surrounded with a
wooden frame, so that people and livestock could not
fall in. Some people replaced the swing-bar with a
role, then by turning a wheel the size of a wagon
wheel, one could move the bucket up or down. Others
covered the fountain with planks and placed a pump
on top, which was then easier to use, but you could
not longer lower melons or bottles of Raki (brandy)
into the well to cool.
Some people insisted that their
well have had good drinking water. One could not
really say that, because the water was hard
everywhere. You could use it for cooking soup, also
for making tea or coffee, you could even drink it,
but for washing you needed rain water. For that
reason, every house had its rainwater well, a
bricked hole in the ground, where rain water from a
gutter was collected and stored.
Better drinking water was
available from the wells with pumps. In the middle
of each village district, where the secondary
streets intersected and with the
houses placed at an angle to form an octagon, a well
with pump was standing. There was also a well with
pump in the schoolyard, but its water cannot be
called good drinking water, because the well was not
very deep.
The best water in the village had
to be carried home from the Rondeller fountain. The
pump stood next to the Church, on the
opposite side of the main street.
It was drilled in 1920 and was one hundred
meters deep (luckily they did not
encounter oil while drilling!). To me and other, the
water of this well tasted better than the tap water
of Temeswar. The pump was so high that a pipe was
attached to its upper part, where firefighters could
drive underneath to fill their water tanks or
cisterns.
The Rondeller fountain was also
called the kissing fountain, because it often
happened that girls and boys would meet there in the
evening, and then we all know what can happen.
Today the village has central
water distribution and the kissing well does no
longer stand in its place. And in addition, the
streets have electric lighting. This is certainly
progress. But some of us oldsters sometimes
reminisce about our old hometown, about the old days
and the old wells. Perhaps our countryman Hans
Wolfram Hockl said it best:
"As the years pass by so quickly,
and soon will fill my pitcher,
Just once more I want to stand
there
And my
thirst to quench there". |
