Place (headland)
Place is a name for a headland , comparable to the Danish " Odde ". The original (Middle High and Middle Low German) meaning of the word “place” as “top” has been preserved here. As a generic name , “place” in this sense is no longer common today, but can be found in a number of proper names.
Especially on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the adjacent areas there are a large number of - differently pronounced - headlands that contain a "place" in the name.
Examples:
- Friedrichsort on the west side of the Kiel Fjord
- Möltenort on the east side of the Kiel Fjord
- Orth on Fehmarn
- Kieler Ort , the former south-western tip of the Wustrow peninsula (today an island of its own)
- Geinitzort, the northernmost point of the Stolteraa near Warnemünde
- Rosenort, Stolper Ort and Wiedort between Markgrafenheide and Graal-Müritz
- Esper place on the west beach of the Darß
- Darßer Ort , the northern tip of the Darß
- Pramort on the eastern tip of the Zingst peninsula
- Freesenort on the southwestern tip of the island of Ummanz
- Mövenort, near Dranske in the north of the island of Rügen
- Gellort, the northernmost point of the island of Rügen west of Cape Arkona
- Lobber place on the Mönchgut peninsula on Rügen
- Palmer Ort, the southernmost point of the island of Rügen on Zudar
- Erischowort, Möwenort, Hoher Ort and Grüssower Ort on the Bodden waters on the island of Usedom .
Some headlands in the formerly German-populated areas east of the Oder also have a “place” in their German name. These include, for example, the Brüsterort (the northwestern tip of the Samland ) or the Lyserort on the northwestern tip of the Kurland .
In the inland, the term place appears for headlands mainly at river mouths and has been retained in the names of settlements that have arisen in these places, e.g. B. Ruhrort at the confluence of the Ruhr into the Rhine , Tegelort at the meeting of Tegeler See and Havel , Leerort at the confluence of the Leda into the Ems or Störort at the confluence of the Stör into the Elbe .
Individual evidence
- ^ Niels Nikolaus Falck , archive for history, statistics, customer of the administration and state rights of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg , Schröder, Kiel 1842, vol. 2, p. 700.
- ↑ Keyword "Place" in; Duden - The dictionary of linguistic doubts: Correct and good German. , Bibliographisches Institut , Mannheim 2016, ISBN 978-3-411-04098-8 .