Murg (water body name)

A sign identifies the Murg in Baiersbronn, Northern Black Forest

Murg is a water body name.

Waters

• Murg , right tributary of the Aare near Obermurgenthal, municipality of Wynau , administrative district of Oberaargau, canton of Bern
• Three right tributaries of the Rhine in Baden-Württemberg ; downstream:
  • Murg , old name of the Radolfzeller Aach , tributary of the Zeller See of Lake Constance on the boundary of the district of Böhringen belonging to Radolfzell and the municipality of Moos, both district of Konstanz
  • Murg or Murgbach or Hauensteiner Murg or Obere Murg , tributary of the High Rhine near Murg , Waldshut district; in the southern Black Forest
    • Kleine Murg , right tributary of the Hauensteiner Murg in Hottingen , municipality of Rickenbach, district of Waldshut
  • Murg or Untere Murg , tributary of the Upper Rhine near Steinmauern, Rastatt district . Valley course in the districts of Freudenstadt and Rastatt in the northern Black Forest . Two upper reaches to Obertal , municipality of Baiersbronn:
    • Rotmurg , left upper course
    • Rechtmurg , right upper course
• Murga , outdated Unterlaufname of the Lauter , left tributary of the Upper Rhine near Neuburg am Rhein , district of Germersheim , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Altmurg , right tributary of the upper Ried Canal of the Gold Canal near stone walls, Rastatt district, Baden-Württemberg; is a right legacy remnant of the northern Black Forest Murg
• Murg , left tributary of the Thur near Frauenfeld , Frauenfeld district, Canton Thurgau
• Murg or Murgbach , southern tributary of the Walensee (to the Linth Canal) in Murg , Quarten municipality, Sarganserland constituency, canton St. Gallen; flows through the Murg valley and at the top of the municipality the three Murg lakes
• Morgenbach , left tributary of the Middle Rhine near Trechtingshausen on the Middle Rhine, first name tradition Murga

etymology

The name of the water body Murg goes back to the Celtic root * Morgjā , with the approximate meaning 'land / region / water on a border'. The Gaulish * morga , border, pile of stones, derived from it , gave rise to the derivation of Murga , from which all today's Murg names are derived. Since the boundary of the older Celtic root could also mean swamps, damp meadows, etc., there are now relic names for parcels that have emerged from it. In the Swiss Romandie and in France there are other names for places and waters - Morge , Morges , Merje , Morel  - which also come from the Celtic root.

literature

• Julia Kuhn: Murg (Canton St. Gallen / Switzerland) - designation of a border or designation of a soil condition? A name-based analysis with a look at adjacent toponyms. In: Peter Anreiter, Peter Ernst, Isolde Hausner (Ed.): Names, Languages ​​and Cultures. Imena, Jeziki in Kulture. Festschrift Heinz Dieter Pohl for his 60th birthday. Praesens, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3706901641 , pp. 519-538.
• Willi Echle: The Murg - your name and your water. In: Landkreis Rastatt (ed.): To the Rhine and Murg. Home register of the district of Rastatt. Volume 4, 1964, pp. 32-43.

See also

• Murgbach

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Etymology according to: Albrecht Greule , Deutsches Gewässernamenbuch , De Gruyter , Berlin, 2014, p. 364.