Mar 20, 2022 10:20
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German term

die Lay

German to English Tech/Engineering Mining & Minerals / Gems Basalt mining
https://www.lavadome.de/staticsite/staticsite.php?menuid=9&t...

Terrible website from the 1990s! ;) I get to do the translation for the new website, but I'm stuck on this very particular term. Here is the initial context:

"Die Museumslay ist ein Freilichtmuseum als Dauerausstellung mit verschiedenen Zeugnissen der schweren Arbeit der Großväter auf dem ehemaligen Grubengelände."

In this sentence I've simply left the German in in italics, after all it is the name of the museum. However, later in the text they just refer to "die Lay":

"Direkt am Eingang zur Lay findet man ein besonderes Prunkstück – den Schläsch-Express, ein Nachbau einer alten Grubenbahn mit Loren."

I've got around it by calling it "site", but then comes this:

"Heiraten auf der Lay
Als „Außenstelle“ des Mendiger Standesamts werden auf Wunsch und entsprechender Terminvereinbarung Trauungen auf der altehrwürdigen Lay durchgeführt."

I've found a workaround by calling it "Museumslay" again here in the heading and making reference to the "venerable location" in the following sentence.

I'm not entirely happy though and it's bugging me not knowing what "die Lay" actually is! Is there a word for it in EN?! Thanks ever so much =)

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Lay // stone quarry // mining museum // park

lay = stone quarry
https://www.eifel.info/en/nature/volcanicity-in-the-eifel/vo...

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https://www.vulkanpark.com/entdecken/denkmaeler/ettringer-la...

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Du kannst m.E. "Lay" als Eigennamen beibehalten oder auch die anderen Optionen verwenden.

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Ley, auch Lay, Lei, Lai, Laige[1] oder Lägge,[2] nach Grimm Leie, ist eine im rheinischen und niederdeutschen Sprachraum häufig anzutreffende Bezeichnung für Fels. Das Wort stammt aus Altsächsisch lêia. Es bezieht sich insbesondere auf „Felsabbrüche“ und „Felswände“, insbesondere aber „Felsplatte“. Des Weiteren findet es sich auch im Sinne „Schiefergestein“ oder „Tonschiefer“ (Leienstein), wie auch gebrochen als „Schiefertafel“ als Schreibutensil oder „Schieferplatte“ in der Dachdeckerei (Leiendecker), niederländisch leyde, leye.
Ley, auch Lay, Lei, Lai, Laige[1] oder Lägge,[2] nach Grimm Leie, ist eine im rheinischen und niederdeutschen Sprachraum häufig anzutreffende Bezeichnung für Fels. Das Wort stammt aus Altsächsisch lêia. Es bezieht sich insbesondere auf „Felsabbrüche“ und „Felswände“, insbesondere aber „Felsplatte“. Des Weiteren findet es sich auch im Sinne „Schiefergestein“ oder „Tonschiefer“ (Leienstein), wie auch gebrochen als „Schiefertafel“ als Schreibutensil oder „Schieferplatte“ in der Dachdeckerei (Leiendecker), niederländisch leyde, leye.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_(landform)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ley_(landform)
Peer comment(s):

agree Donatello Wilhelm
27 mins
Thank you, Felipe!
agree Erzsébet Czopyk : Absolutely, congratulations, Barbara
1 hr
Thank you!
agree Johanna Timm, PhD : lay/lei= Fels hat sich noch in der Lorelei erhalten:-)
1 day 7 hrs
Thank you, Johanna!
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Thanks, Barbara! The reference to the landform was exactly what I was looking for! I managed to incorporate it into the translation thus: "...this quarry site – known as a Lay in the local vernacular – was the...""
2 days 3 hrs

open-air basalt mining and processing exhibition

See reference
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Reference:

The Museumslay

The Museumslay is an open-air museum as a permanent exhibition with various testimonies of the hard work of the grandfathers on the former mine site.
The Museumslay is an open-air exhibition as a permanent exhibition with various testimonies to the hard work of the grandfathers on the former mine site.

At the entrance to the Museumslay, a so-called Göpelwerk awaits the visitor, a faithful replica of the winches used in earlier times, with which the heavy Mendig basalt stones were brought out of the rock cellars into the daylight.

On the site of the city of Mendig in Brauerstraße, about 300 m from the Lava Dome, a gem of the great Mendig stonemason tradition was created.

Another showpiece is also right in the entrance area - the Schläsch-Express, a replica of an old mine railway with lorries.
A stonemason's hut and a pit crane were built in the lower area of ​​the museum layout. This crane used to be used to load the stones and then transport them for further processing.
Furthermore, the visitor can learn about old working methods, such as B. the cracking of a basalt stone in the individual work steps, inform.
Stone made from local volcanic rock are exhibited as well as artistically made sculptures. A mine forge also found its place on the Lay.
The tools used to be forged here, today only luck. Because as the "branch office" of the Mendiger registry office, weddings are now carried out on request (and an appropriate appointment) on the venerable Lay.

In the right part of the site, the visitor will now find street pavement, as it used to be. A Roman fountain in tuff and various pieces of natural stone from road construction.

A tour is like a little time travel through the era of hard work by stonemasons on the Mendiger Stein.
The Museumslay is freely accessible all year round.

https://www.outdooractive.com/en/poi/eifel/museumslay/274789...
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