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unusual facts about German name



Jalkanen

If Finnish names were used to indicate a family's original trade (as with English and German names, like Miller, Shoemaker, Brewer, Smith, etc.) then the term "foot" or "Jalka" could refer to a profession such as a cobbler or tracker.


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Arensburg

German name of Kuressaare, a town and a municipality on Saaremaa island in Estonia

Augustin Hirschvogel

Hirschvogel left in 1536 for Laibach (the German name for Ljubljana in present-day Slovenia), returning to Nuremberg in 1543.

Benjamin the Elephant

Benjamin the Elephant (original German name: Benjamin Blümchen; "Benjamin Blossom") is an animated children's television show produced by Kiddinx Studios in Berlin.

Biała Prudnicka

Some of the villages founded by settlers from Bela include Gościęcin (original German name: Kostenthal), founded in 1225, and Kazimierz (original German name: Kasimir bei Oberglogau), founded in 1240.

Borowitz

Borovnička (Klein Borowitz), German name of the Czech village and municipality in the Trutnov District

Carlsbad Caverns National Park

The town of Carlsbad, which lends its name to the Cavern and National Park, is in turn named after the Czech town formerly known by the German name Karlsbad (English spelling Carlsbad) and now known by the Czech name Karlovy Vary, both of which mean "Charles' Baths."

Charlottenhof

Aegviidu, settlement in Estonia with old German name Charlottenhof

Giślinek, settlement in Poland with old German name Charlottenhof

Crizbav

The history of the village is rich, beginning from the German name of the city, (Krebs Bach = Crabs Valley) and continuing with the use of Crizbav Citadel as military observation tower, as confirmed by the "Diploma of King Louis the Great" of March 12, 1344, or that of Prince Stephen Bathory of October 30, 1484.

Dachs

The Dachshund, which literally means "badger dog", has this German name origin.

Detleff Neumann-Neurode

She opened a clinic for children of poor families in the East End of London, and kept it going through the years of the Blitz, insisting on crediting Neumann-Neurode despite pressure to avoid using the German name.

Drużno

The German name Draussensee, in earlier records called Drusensee, is connected to the ancient trade city of Truso, which stood within the lands now occupied by Elbląg.

Fortress Warsaw

Festung Warschau - the German name for defended city of Warsaw during II w.w.

Friedrich der Grosse

Friedrich der Grosse (spelled Große in German) is the German name for Frederick the Great, a ruler of Prussia.

GameWeek Magazine

Several magazines did attempt to unseat the publication’s prominence including MCV (roughly translated from its German name, the Market for Computer and Video Games) and Games Business.

Grafenort

The German name for the village of Gorzanów, in Kłodzko County, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland

Hampont

The town was formally known by the German name Hudingen between 1915–18 and Hüdingen over 1940 and 1944.

Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira

Her mother used to explain that Hildegart meant "Garden of Wisdom" in German, but there's no basis to that, the name was either an invention or the misspelled German name Hildegard (Heroic virgin, who gives shelter in war).

Hog maw

In the Pennsylvania German language, it is known as "Seimaage" (sigh-maw-guh), originating from its German name Saumagen.

Klemzig

Klępsk in Poland was previously a Prussian village known by the German name, Klemzig

Knićanin

The former German name of the village, Rudolfsgnad, was in use since 1868, when the village was named after Crown Prince Rudolf (1858-1889).

Krain

Carniola, the original German name of a historical region and duchy of Austria in today's Slovenia.

Kruschwitz

German name of Kruszwica, town in central Poland, Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

Laibach

Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia, by historical German name

Leopold I, Margrave of Austria

Celebrations under the same title were held twenty years later at the anniversary of the famous 996 Ostarrîchi document first mentioning the Old German name of Austria.

Libethenite

It was discovered in 1823 in Ľubietová, Slovakia and is named after the German name of that locality (Libethen).

Lusin

Lusin, German name of Luzino, a village in Wejherowo County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in Poland

Neuhammer

German name of Świętoszów, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Osiecznica

German name of Nowa Kuźnia, Opole Voivodeship, a village in the administrative district of Gmina Prószków

Norisring

As the city's German name Nürnberg would lead to confusion with the already famous Nürburgring, the old name Noris was chosen for the simple track which is nowadays approx.

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe

Prince Eugen of Schaumburg-Lippe full German name: Wilhelm Eugen Georg Friedrich August Albrecht zu Schaumburg-Lippe (8 August 1899, in Hannover, Germany – 7 November 1929, in Caterham, Surrey) was a son of Prince Maximilian August Jaroslav Adalbert Hermann of Schaumburg-Lippe (1871–1904) and Princess Olga Alexandra Marie of Württemberg (1876–1932).

Railway Rivals

The game has subsequently been republished under its German name, Dampfross, initially by Laurin (1990) and then by Queen Games (1995).

Sassenheim

:Sassenheim is also the German name for Sanem, Luxembourg.

Scholten

Scholten, German name for the commune Cenade in Romania (Szászcsanád in Hungarian)

Steinacker

Steinacker is the German name for Nădrag in Hungary

Suhi Potok

The German name Dürnbach also literally means 'dry creek' and may be compared to similar names in Carinthia, such as the hamlet of Dürnfeld in the Municipality of Magdalensberg.

Teschen

Teschen is the German name of a town on the Olza River divided in 1920 into the towns of Cieszyn, Poland and Český Těšín, Czech Republic.

The Paradoxes of Mr. Pond

Mr Pond, Sir Henry Wotton, Captain Gahagan and his new wife Joan are discussing the treatment of Jews in Germany, and Pond recalls an incident in the last war when a Jew who had adopted a German name was suspected of being a spy.

Trient, Switzerland

:Trient is also the German name for the city of Trento, Italy

Warsow

Warsow, the German name of Warszewo, a municipal neighbourhood of the city of Szczecin, Poland

Weimarer

Weimarer Republik, the German name for the Weimar Republic, a parliamentary republic in Germany from 1919-1933

Ząbkowice Śląskie

The town was located exactly halfways between the sites of two previously existing towns that had failed to attract enough settlers: Frankenberg and Löwenstein, and inherited its German name from both.

Zicker

Zicker, the German name of Sikory, a village in West Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland