German Placename Etymology

	German Placename Etymology Placenames in the German language area can be classified by the language from which they originate, and by era. German names from prehistoric and medieval times Suffixes * ''-ach'' ("river", cf. English ''ea''). Examples: Echternach, Salzach. * ''-au'' (from Slavic suffix -ov, -ów). Examples: village and town names' suffixes on former Polabian Slavs territories: Lübbenau, Plau am See, Plau. See also: German naming convention of Polish town names during World War II as an analogy. * ''-au'', ''-aue'' (related to rivers or water), see German words wikt:Au, Au or Aue. This meaning of ''-au'' (earlier spelling ''ow'', ''owe'', ''ouwe'') describes settlements by streams and rivers. Examples: Passau, the town Aue, Saxony, Aue, rivers named Aue. * ''-bach'' or Low German ''-bek'' ("stream"; cf. English ''beck, bach, batch''). Examples: Amorbach, Ansbach, Reinbek, Wandsbek. * ''-baum'' ("tree"). Examples: Oranienbaum, Germany, Oranienbaum, Pyrbaum. * ''-berg'', ''-bergen'' ("mou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Pyrbaum Pyrbaum is a municipality in the district of Neumarkt in Bavaria in Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu .... References Neumarkt (district) {{Neumarktdistrict-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Waldbrunn (other) Waldbrunn may refer to: Geography ; Hesse: * Waldbrunn, Hesse, in the district of Limburg-Weilburg, Hesse ; Baden-Württemberg : * Waldbrunn, Baden-Württemberg, in the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis, Baden-Württemberg ; Bavaria: * Waldbrunn, Bavaria, in the district of Würzburg, Lower Franconia, Bavaria * a district of Brunnthal, Munich district, Bavaria Surname * Ernst Waldbrunn (1907 - 1977), Austrian actor, '' Kabarettist'' * Karl Waldbrunner (1906 - 1980), Austrian politician (SPÖ The Social Democratic Party of Austria ( , SPÖ) is a social democratic political party in Austria. Founded in 1889 as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (, SDAPÖ) and later known as the Socialist Party of Austria () from 1945 unt ... ) {{disambig, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Schönbrunn (other) Schönbrunn may refer to: * Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria * Schönbrunn Station of the Vienna U-Bahn * Schönbrunn Zoo in Schönbrunn Palace gardens * Schönbrunn (Baden), a municipality in Rhein-Neckar, Baden-Württemberg, Germany * Schönbrunn (Fichtelgebirge), a village in the Fichtelgebirge mountains in Bavaria, Germany * Schönbrunn im Steigerwald, a municipality in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany * Schönbrunn, a district of Floß, Bavaria, Germany * Schönbrunn, the former German name of the Prussian town Jabłonów, now in Lubusz Voivodeship Lubusz Voivodeship ( ) is a voivodeships of Poland, voivodeship (province) in western Poland with a population of 972,140. Its regional capitals are Gorzów Wielkopolski and Zielona Góra. The region is characterized by a landscape of forests, lake ... , in southwestern Poland. {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Heilbronn Heilbronn () is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in northern Baden-Württemberg, Germany, surrounded by Heilbronn (district), Heilbronn District. From the late Middle Ages on, it developed into an important trading centre. At the beginning of the 19th century, Heilbronn became one of the centres of early industrialisation in Württemberg. Heilbronn's old town was completely destroyed during the air raid of 4 December 1944 and rebuilt in the 1950s. Today Heilbronn is the economic centre of the Heilbronn-Franconia, Heilbronn-Franken region. Heilbronn is known for its wine industry and is nicknamed ''Käthchenstadt'', after Heinrich von Kleist's ''Das Käthchen von Heilbronn''. Geography Heilbronn is located in the northern corner of the Neckar Sedimentary basin, basin at the bottom of the Wartberg (Heilbronn), Wartberg (308 m). It occupies both banks of the Neckar, and the highest spot inside city limits is the Schweinsberg (mountain), Schweinsberg with a height of 372 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Cleebronn Cleebronn () is a municipality in the district of Heilbronn in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography Cleebronn is in the Zabergäu in the south of the district of Heilbronn, directly in the north of the Stromberg mountain with an elevation of . The landscape is characterised by wine-growing. The symbol of the municipality and the whole Zabergäu is the Michaelsberg, which has an elevation of . Neighbouring municipalities Neighbouring towns of Cleebronn are (clockwise from the west): Güglingen, Brackenheim (both in the district of Heilbronn), Bönnigheim and Sachsenheim (both in the district of Ludwigsburg). Cleebronn has combined with Brackenheim to form a joint association. Municipal structure Cleebronn includes the villages of Treffentrill and Katharinenplaisir. History The first documented mention of Cleebronn was in 1279 as ''Kleberen''. In the 13th century there were some possessions of the Principality of Mainz around the Michaelsberg being rent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Weißenborn (other) Weißenborn may refer to the following places in Germany: * Weißenborn, Saxony-Anhalt, in the Burgenlandkreis, Saxony-Anhalt * Weißenborn, Hesse, in the Werra-Meißner-Kreis, Hesse Weißenborn (Gleichen), part of the municipality Gleichen in the Göttingen district, Lower Saxony Weißenborn, Thuringia, in the Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Thuringia * Weißenborn, Saxony, in the Freiberg district, Saxony * Weißenborn (Zwickau), a locality of Zwickau Zwickau (; ) is the fourth-largest city of Saxony, Germany, after Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz, with around 88,000 inhabitants,. The West Saxon city is situated in the valley of the Zwickau Mulde (German: ''Zwickauer Mulde''; progression: ), ..., Saxony * Weißenborn-Lüderode, in the Eichsfeld district, Thuringia {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Quickborn Quickborn () is a town in the district of Pinneberg, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It belongs to Metropolregion Hamburg and is located on the north part of Hamburg on Autobahn A7. It is a 700 year old town which also belonged to Denmark in the past. Connectivity Quickborn is located about 18 km north from the centre of Hamburg, on the eastern edge of Kreis Pinneberg. It lies on the A7 between Hamburg and Neumünster. It is situated just 6 km from the Hamburg Airport. Quickborn is also located along the Hamburg-Altona–Neumünster railway, which connects it to the AKN railway and buses of the Hamburger Verkehrsverbund. The S bahn train is coming in 2025 to Quickborn which will connect it directly to the main train station at Hamburg Hauptbahnhof without any change of trains. This is going to be a big boost in Quickborn‘s connectivity as well as ambitious plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Geography Northwest of Quickborn is the Himmelmoor, the larges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Paderborn Paderborn (; Westphalian language, Westphalian: ''Patterbuorn'', also ''Paterboärn'') is a city in eastern North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, capital of the Paderborn (district), Paderborn district. The name of the city derives from the river Pader (river), Pader and ''Born'', an old German term for the source of a river. The river Pader originates in more than 200 springs near Paderborn Cathedral, where St. Liborius is buried. History Paderborn was founded as a bishopric by Charlemagne in 795, although its official history began in 777 when Charlemagne built a castle near the Paderborn springs.Ed. Heribert Zelder, Tourist Information Services, ''Welcome to Paderborn'', Stadt Paderborn: Paderborn, Germany, 2009. In 799 Pope Leo III fled his enemies in Rome and reached Paderborn, where he met Charlemagne, and stayed there for three months. It was during this time that it was decided that Charlemagne would be crowned emperor. Charlemagne reinstated Leo in Rome in 800 and was crow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Kalenborn (other) Kalenborn may refer to the following places in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany: * Kalenborn, Ahrweiler, in the district of Ahrweiler * Kalenborn, Cochem-Zell, in the district of Cochem-Zell * Kalenborn-Scheuern, in the district of Vulkaneifel {{geodis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Königsberg Königsberg (; ; ; ; ; ; , ) is the historic Germany, German and Prussian name of the city now called Kaliningrad, Russia. The city was founded in 1255 on the site of the small Old Prussians, Old Prussian settlement ''Twangste'' by the Teutonic Knights during the Northern Crusades, Baltic Crusades. It was named in honour of King Ottokar II of Bohemia, who led a campaign against the pagan Old Prussians, a Baltic tribe. A Baltic Sea, Baltic port city, it successively became the capital of the State of the Teutonic Order, the Duchy of Prussia and the provinces of East Prussia and Province of Prussia, Prussia. Königsberg remained the coronation city of the Prussian monarchy from 1701 onwards, though the capital was Berlin. From the thirteenth to the twentieth centuries on, the inhabitants spoke predominantly German language, German, although the city also had a profound influence upon the Lithuanian and Polish cultures. It was a publishing center of Lutheranism, Lutheran literatu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]