The name Heck originates from the Middle German border. In Low German means Heck "Border". Since it has been thrown on the borders often the stones from the field was, on the borders of fields, one sterile zone. There were growing only shrubs or small stands of trees, the hedges were later called. Ancestors of the name "hedge" were so frontiersmen. The name Heck in the North German probably comes from the ship's stern. This I can not say with certainty, because the ship's stern entstannt later, as the naming of ships during the Middle Ages. In any case, the name "tail" was another term for "fence" (like border). So we called the back of a ship, which was fenced to protect against high waves with planks. Later became part of the ship to the officer's or captain's cabin.
