Mountain (place name)

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Berg is the name or part of the name of numerous places.

Word origin

Mountain refers to the location on or on a hill. The term ahd.  Perač , mhd.  Perc is old and stands next to Mountain also commonly used for ausnehmende surveys, while for the respective hill -forms numerous regional names exist. Places called Berg or auf -berg can be very old and, like the ancestral castles of the Berg noble family, date back to the early Middle Ages. The orographic opposite are the names with Thal and the hill names Büchel , Bühel , Bühl and Bichl (the latter also island names in the sense of hills protruding from the water).

variants

  • Berk , Berck , Bergk - with a hard finish
  • Perg - with an Upper German initial loss of aspiration
  • -Bergen (but can also be the verb mountains are protected, comp. mountains )
  • Niederdt. -barg, -bargen

Compounds with "mountain"

There are many combinations, for example:

If "mountain" is the second part of the name, the place is usually not on a mountain, but on a slope (between a valley place and a summit), thus showing an earlier meaning of the word,

Belgium

Germany

Communities

Districts

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Hesse

North Rhine-Westphalia

Saxony

France

Italy

  • Berg (Eppan) , fraction of the municipality of Eppan on the Wine Route in South Tyrol

Luxembourg

Norway

Austria

Communities

Districts

Carinthia:

Lower Austria:

Upper Austria:

Salzburg

Styria

Tyrol

Poland

  • Berg , Gerdauen district, East Prussia, since 1945: Górki (Barciany) , settlement in the powiat Kętrzyński, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Sweden

Switzerland

  • Berg TG municipality in the canton of Thurgau
  • Berg SG municipality in the canton of St. Gallen
  • Berg am Irchel municipality in the canton of Zurich
  • Berg FR , part of the municipality of Schmitten in the canton of Friborg

Slovakia

Czech Republic

See also

Wiktionary: -berg  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations