Neustadt (place name)

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Bremen around 1640: The New City  - only partially built on ( copper engraving by Matthäus Merian )

Neustadt is a place name . It relates to new foundations or the historical legal status of a district or a city .

Name customer

On the concept of the new town

Neustadt (Salzburg) , a baroque district on the right bank of the Salzach around Mirabell Palace

In many cities, Neustadt is the name of a district. It is mostly a historical extension of the city ​​law from the core city to a suburb . A new city ​​wall was often drawn around this district. In addition to purely organizational reasons for urban development , many new towns are located on the other bank of a river. The reason for these parts of the city lies in the construction of a stone bridge, which in the event of a siege could no longer simply be burned down and therefore the bridgehead on the other side required special protection.

A slightly different toponym is the basis of the cities and districts that emerged as a new urban planning , such as Wiener Neustadt ( Nova Civitas ), a border fortress from the High Middle Ages, the New Town of Prague (Nové Město), a city founded by Charles IV in 1346, or the Salzburg community Neustadt on the other bank of the Salzach ( moor settlement , baroque period).

Modern urban planning concepts are the planned city and the satellite city , which are referred to in English as New Town , New City ( system of central places ).

Name variants

Also Neudorf , Neusiedl , New churches etc. is a similar place names based. Neumarkt mostly refers to the main market of a new district or a new settlement, but also to newly granted market rights . This applies to most Central European place names on new , which do not refer to new discovery .

A different etymology in this sense, however, has Neustadt , a small scattered settlement near Gutau in Upper Austria's Mühlviertel - still in the 19th century Neustadl as the farm name "new Stadl ( stable , barn )", there are no references to municipal law here in rural areas. Similarly, in such cases, it is also possible to derive “new site” from Neustatt as the clearing name .

Neustadt , Canada, for example , has a different origin , which is simply named after the (German) hometown of the founders, as was common in colonialism. This also applies to numerous non-European cities of the following non-German variants. That these are founding cities cannot be deduced from the name.

"New City" is a common name for a city in the respective national language in many other countries as well:

  • Nea polis was called the founding of cities by the Greeks: Neapolis (old Gr., Neugr Neaopoli), from this: Napoli (dt. Naples ) in Italy, Nablus in Palestine, Nabeul in Tunisia, engl. Naples in the USA
  • Qart-Hadašt , the Phoenician name for Carthage , translates as "New City".

distribution

Working group Neustadt in Europe

Neustadt is one of the most common place names in Germany. 36 cities called Neustadt (or one called Neuenstadt and some whose name used to be like this) from six Central European countries have come together to form the largest international city friendship Neustadt in Europe .

In some cases Neustadt is the official name of a borough or district, in other cases the name is used informally for a small area within the city.

In his book published in 1954, Julius Fischer listed more than 600 places called “Neustadt” in Germany and abroad.

Places and districts

Germany

cities and communes

Surname state Inhabitants
(rounded) 		Explanation
Neustadt an der Weinstrasse Rhineland-Palatinate 52,900 Stadt, district-free, until 1936 and again from 1945 to 1950 Neustadt an der Haardt
Neustadt am Rübenberge Lower Saxony 45,000 City in the Hanover region
Bergneustadt North Rhine-Westphalia 19,500 City in the Oberbergisches Kreis
Neustadt in Holstein Schleswig-Holstein 16,000 City in the Ostholstein district
Neustadt near Coburg Bavaria 15,700 City in the district of Coburg
Bad Neustadt an der Saale Bavaria 15,500 City, district town of the Rhön-Grabfeld district
Neustadt in Saxony Saxony 13,500 Town in the Saxon Switzerland-Eastern Ore Mountains district
Neustadt an der Donau Bavaria 13,100 City in the Kelheim district
Neustadt an der Aisch Bavaria 12,200 City, district town of the Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim district
Titisee-Neustadt Baden-Württemberg 11,800 City in the district of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald (see below)
Neustadt (Hesse) Hesse 8,700 City in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district
Neustadt an der Orla Thuringia 8,500 City in the Saale-Orla district
Neustadt-Glewe Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 6,500 City in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district, until 1926: Neustadt i. Meckl.
Neustadt (Wied) Rhineland-Palatinate 6,300 Community in the district of Neuwied
Neustadt an der Waldnaab Bavaria 5,800 City, capital of the district of the same name
Neustadt (Dosse) Brandenburg 3,600 City in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Neustadt am Main Bavaria 1,200 Municipality in the Main-Spessart district
Neustadt am Kulm Bavaria 1,200 City in the district of Neustadt an der Waldnaab
Neustadt / Harz Thuringia 1,100 Community in the district of Nordhausen
Neustadt / Vogtl. Saxony 1,000 Municipality in the Vogtlandkreis
Neustadt / Westerwald Rhineland-Palatinate 600 Community in the Westerwaldkreis

The following places were formerly called Neustadt:

Independent communities into the 21st century

Independent communities until the 20th century

  • Neustadt , part of the community Am Ohmberg in the Eichsfeld district
  • Halle (Saale): Halle-Neustadt , an independent town until 1990
  • Neustadt , part of the community of Breuberg in the Odenwaldkreis
  • Neustadt an der Rems , part of the city of Waiblingen in the Rems-Murr district
  • Neustadt in the Black Forest , part of the city of Titisee-Neustadt in the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district (see above)
  • Neustadt / Spree , part of the Spreetal community in the Bautzen district

District since the 19th century at the latest

The districts are - in contrast to the municipal or local name - usually not regarded as proper names and therefore mostly with the female items that needed.

Districts of little importance

Neustadt ( Ovelgönne ) from the air (2012)
  • in Lotte in the Steinfurt district
  • in Wagenfeld in the Diepholz district
  • in the municipality of Ovelgönne in the Wesermarsch district

Austria

Parish parts:

Deviating etymology: Neustadt (Gutau municipality, scattered houses)

Switzerland

Historical names in German usage

Exonyms no longer exist in countries with the official language of German in localities:

Croatia:

Lithuania:

Poland:

Romania:

Slovakia:

Slovenia:

Czech Republic:

Hungary:

Neustadt, non-German states

There is no etymology in the sense of the term, it is purely after-naming a hometown of the German founding fathers.

Netherlands, Belgium

Other significant districts

  • The New Town of Riga is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site because of its Art Nouveau ensemble.

In the literature

See also

literature

  • Julius Fischer: Neustadt - Neustadt places around the world , self-published, Neustadt / Württ. 1954 (96 pages, Eisele printing house, Waiblingen)

Web links

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

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