Moor (disambiguation)

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Moor denotes:

  • Bog , a wetland
  • Bog soil , a soil that is rich in organic matter
  • Mud bath , a healing treatment with the peat obtained there
  • a name variant of the West African language Bimoba (language)


Moor is the name of the following places:

in Brandenburg:

  • Part of the municipality of Brüssow in the Uckermark district
  • Moor (Lenzen) , an inhabited part of the municipality of Lenzen (Elbe) in the Prignitz district

in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania:

in Niedersachsen:

in Czech Republic:


Moor is the family name of the following people:


Moor stands for:

  • Jan vom Moor , open-air museum in the district of Cuxhaven
  • Karl Moor and Franz Moor , main characters in the drama The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller


See also:

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