-rode
The suffix -rode as part of place names indicates a " clearing name ". These were chosen for locations that were created on a cleared area. The so-called places were mostly founded in the clearing time in the late Middle Ages in the hill country or mountain foothills. Closely related are the suffix -roda , which is only found south of the Harz Mountains , -rade in the Westphalian region and -reuth , which is particularly widespread in the Vogtland region, while -rode compared to -roda and -reuth occurs mainly north of this mountain range. In the Rhineland and in the Bergisches Land corresponds to the -rath . A link with clan-related place names on -ingen is represented by the ending -ingerode . The name Walsrode , whose suffix goes back to Roding (en) , does not refer to clearing .
Examples
Hessen : In Hessen, places that end in -rode are particularly common on the west side of the Kaufunger Wald, on the Meissner, in the Knüllgebirge, on the Vogelsberg, in the western Taunus and in the Westerwald.
Lower Saxony : In Lower Saxony, the ending -rode is particularlywidespread inthe Harz (here often as -ingerode) and partly in the Braunschweig region tothe north. The name of the more northerly Walsrode , however, originated from the older name layer on -ingen.
Thuringia : In Thuringia, the ending -rode occurs predominantly in northern Thuringia, but also occasionally in western Thuringia (here parallel to the widespread -roda)
literature
- Casemir, Kirstin, Ohainski, Uwe, Udolph, Jürgen: The place names of the district of Göttingen (Lower Saxony Place Name Book IV publications of the Institute for Historical Research at the University of Göttingen). Publishing house for regional history, Bielefeld 2003
- Dieter Berger: Geographical names in Germany: origin and meaning of the names of countries, cities, mountains and bodies of water , 1999, ISBN 3-411-06252-5
Individual evidence
- ^ Settlement name types II. Historical Atlas of Hesse. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).