For a bounded domain Ω in R N with Lipschitz boundary Γ = ∂Ω and a relatively open and non-empty 'admissible' subset Γ t of Γ, we prove the existence of a positive constant c such that inequalityholds for all tensor fields T ∈ • H(Curl; Γ t , Ω, R N ×N ), this is, for all square-integrable tensor fields T : Ω → R N ×N having a row-wise square-integrable rotation tensor field Curl T : Ω → R N ×N (N −1)/2 and vanishing row-wise tangential trace on Γ t .For compatible tensor fields T = ∇v with v ∈ H 1 (Ω, R N ) having vanishing tangential Neumann trace on Γ t the inequality (0.1) reduces to a non-standard variant of Korn's first inequality since Curl T = 0, while for skew-symmetric tensor fields T Poincaré's inequality is recovered.If Γ t = ∅, our estimate (0.1) still holds at least for simply connected Ω and for all tensor fields T ∈ H(Curl; Ω, R N ×N ) which are L 2 (Ω, R N ×N )-perpendicular to so(N ), i.e., to all skew-symmetric constant tensors.