Hausen (place name)

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Hausen ( listen ? / I ) or the settlement name ending -hausen is a German place name . It refers to a house , i.e. a permanent home. Audio file / audio sample

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Places with the name ending -hausen (zu -haus ) are typical for the establishment of settlements in the course of the Frankish conquest , which took place in the late 5th to 7th centuries, and the subsequent expansion of the Franconian Empire to Bavaria, and later Austria and Saxony up to the 9th century . Century, but can also be found in much later language classes.

The settlements, which were originally founded as single farmsteads or hamlets , often later developed into the core of a town , and therefore numerous identifiers were linked to today's hausen names, some of which were probably secondary.

variants

Often the connection with the older -ing names to -inghausen (e.g. Recklinghausen )

Word forms of Upper German like -häus (e) l (n) (for example in Neuhäus (e) l ) are mostly a secondary education, and less old. They also primarily relate to “houses” in today's sense, not in the Franconian-Bavarian settlement context.

Individual "spots" are also sometimes referred to as such, where e.g. B. there are only three houses, such as Dreihausen.

distribution

Hausen is the most common place name in Germany, 12 municipalities and many districts and places are called that. Also -hausen is a typical ending of settlement names in German-speaking countries, as well as fictitious locations such as Duckburg .

Places called Hausen

Germany

Baden-Württemberg

Bavaria

Hesse

North Rhine-Westphalia

Rhineland-Palatinate

Thuringia

France

  • Hausen, German name of the municipality Houssen in the Haut-Rhin department

Switzerland

See also

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

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