Coueniz

The place Coueniz is a desert in what is now the Mecklenburg Lake District in central Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Traditional

Coueniz (also known as Coueniz villa ) was mentioned in 1172 and was located near Dargun north of Lake Kummerow . The reasons for the abandonment of the place are unknown. It is believed that Cuenitz was a single farm whose location can no longer be determined.

Place name

The place name is of Slavic origin and denotes a family or clan name and their property ( kovena, kovati ).

Individual evidence

^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 34.
↑ Hansjürgen Brachmann: The Cistercian monastery Dargun in the tribal area of the Zirzipans: an interdisciplinary contribution to research into medieval settlement processes in Germania Slavica (= research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe . Volume 17 ). Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-515-08268-9 , ISSN 1435-9030 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[1] Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Meklenburg. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Vol. 46, 1881, ISSN 0259-7772 , pp. 3-168, here p. 34.

[2] Hansjürgen Brachmann: The Cistercian monastery Dargun in the tribal area of the Zirzipans: an interdisciplinary contribution to research into medieval settlement processes in Germania Slavica (= research on the history and culture of Eastern Central Europe . Volume 17 ). Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-515-08268-9 , ISSN 1435-9030 ( limited preview in the Google book search).