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High Germany is a geographical term referring to the mountainous southern part of Germany. The term is first found in medieval Latin as ''Germania Superior'', for example in chapter 23 of the ''Imago mundi'' of Honorius Augustodunensis: ''Ab Danubio usque ad Alpes est Germania Superior'', "From the Danube to the Alps is High Germany". In German, the term ''Hochdeutschland'' to mean Alpine Germany was not uncommon in the 16th century, and was still so used by the Brothers Grimm in the 19th, but has largely fallen out of use. However, when the Republic of Austria was founded in 1918, ''Hochdeutschland'' was one of the proposals made for a name for the new country. 〔Ernst Bruckmüller in: Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Günter Düriegl (Hrsg): ''Das neue Österreich. Die Ausstellung zum Staatsvertragsjubiläum 1955–2005'', Wien 2005, ISBN 3-901508-24-4, S. 242ff.〕 In English the term High Germany is rather dated as a geographical term, but it is still familiar from the traditional song "High Germany", which refers to the war of the Spanish Succession: :Oh Polly love, oh Polly, the rout has now begun :We must go a-marching to the beating of the drum :Dress yourself all in your best and come along with me :I'll take you to the war, my love, in High Germany The adjective ''hochdeutsch'', meaning Southern German, is most commonly used in the context of language: High German refers to all dialects of the German language spoken south of the Benrath line. However, since the standard German language grew mostly out of a High German dialect, modern colloquial German often uses the word ''Hochdeutsch'' to mean official language as opposed to any dialect (even those dialects which linguists call "high German"). As a result, the nouns ''Hochdeutscher'' and ''Hochdeutschland'' can occasionally be heard in German used jokingly to refer to the political establishment, or to the region around Hannover which is most associated with the standard language. 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「High Germany」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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