-hau

The suffix -hau as part of place names denotes places where wood was felled (Hau).

The suffix is ​​derived from Old High German hawi or Middle High German hou . That means a former forest whose trunk wood has been felled. In the wooded areas of the Bergisch and the Eifel, the name with and without an identifier is not uncommon. A Hauberg is the area of ​​the forest management, which was set up on a cooperative basis. So -hau is a specific terminus technicus, especially when the word expresses a permanent state through name formation.

Examples

• Großhau
• Kleinhau
• Bedburg-Hau
• Olbernhau
• Schreiberhau

See also

• Hau (disambiguation)
• List of medieval forest German settlements # Place names ending in -hau

Individual evidence

1. ^ Wilhelm Kaspers, The place names of the Düren area in their settlement-historical meaning, Düren 1949, published by the city of Düren and the Düren history association .