-reuth

The suffix -reuth (partly from -rut [e]) as part of place names stands for a place that was created on a cleared forest area. Then the place name is a so-called clearing name . The suffixes -rath , -rod , -roda and -rode are closely related .

Examples

(Bavarian, Saxon, Thuringian) Vogtland :

• Mödlareuth
• Fraureuth
• Konradsreuth
• Reuth

Upper Franconia :

• Bayreuth
• Elbersreuth
• Heinersreuth
• Sichersreuth

Middle Franconia :

• Bubenreuth
• Kalchreuth
• Uttenreuth

Upper Palatinate :

• Tirschenreuth
• Neualbenreuth
• Konnersreuth
• Pechtnersreuth
• Pullenreuth
• Reuth near Erbendorf
• Immenreuth
• Puchersreuth
• Kirchendemenreuth

Upper Bavaria :

• Schneizlreuth
• Kreuth

other places:

• Reuth (Eifel)
• Kalkreuth (near Großenhain in Saxony)

Austria

• Reutte / Tyrol
• Reuthe / Bregenzerwald

Individual evidence

1. ↑ land area. Hallway names. (No longer available online.) Deutsche Rundschau, formerly in the original ; accessed on February 6, 2011 : "Rode, Reuth, Rath, Rade, Ried = deforested terrain, clearing"