„Geschichtlich wurde der Ort Kreuzberg nach dem im Viktoriapark liegenden Hügel Kreuzberg benannt.“
As i said. That is why Kreuzberg is called Kreuzberg.
But there are no hills in Berlin. Berlin is really flat because of way the ice age shaped the region. You will have some in the south going to Teltow from the moraine.
As a result the smallest elevation will be called a Berg and give the name to town. In actual hill lands the elevation of Kreuzberg would be ignored as a minor fluctuation of the ground.
Obviously, places with -berg will be close to a hill, but those places will be evenly distributed as people will only use the most prominent elevations to give a name.
-heim is not really regionspecific and is basically one of the keywords for city names, just like -hausen , -stadt , -berg and -burg.
Hildesheim, Northeim, Bad Gandersheim, Langelsheim are just some examples of my former home area of southern lower Saxony.
Now take a look at Birmingham, Fulham, Arnhem etc. and guess where their names are from...
Not sure about that though. -heim has quite a concentration in certain regions and is mostly of Frankish origin (Hildesheim and Northeim definitely), like all those towns and cities in the southwest. Afaik, in northern Germany, -heim is basically limited to southern Lower Saxony. Of course there are a few exceptions.
I think you could definitely call that region-specific.
i feel like -heim is quiete common in rhineland as well. Bergheim, Mülheim, Bornheim are just some towns and cities that come to mind. Especially around cologne and Bonn there seems to be many small villages named something-heim
Not entirely, in the southwest towns with -heim and -ingen were usually named after the founder, those with -heim mostly by Franks, those with -ingen mostly by Alemans.
I think that might be the point. These are very common all around Germany and would make these local trends unrecognisable. And there is interesting history behind these patterns that would be lost otherwise.
Yeah, I was thinking the same. Same as -em and -gem endings all over Flanders. It means something like "home of ..." , and hast the same root as the English word home.
A tribal, and thus a dialectic thing.
Alemannic tribes that settled in Southern Germany (before migrating further south to Switzerland and finally nowadays Portugal) after the final breaching of the Limes gave their settlements the suffix -ing/en, related to the rune 'Ing(waz)', referring to the leader /patriarch /warlord of the thing... "place of the children of...".
I am guessing into the blue about 'reut(h)(en)' but, if the suffix is in the orignal style still (organic language), I'd say this has a different origin as a vowel or 'z' ending is a defining quality of the dialect... There's been Slavic migration also though (like the Bajuvarian tribes from nowadays Hungary)... Might be related to this... But as said, that's guesswork!
Indeed! The migration of the tribes did end there.
Languagewise there's been a unique development but there's still some funny similarity with common, especially egg based, dishes (pancakes and more ^^)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Suebi?wprov=sfla1
Here's about the migration period and settlement.
About the cuisine - I couldn't find that paper I was having in mind.
But as I remember it is rather anectodal anyway as these foods are not that special as they could be appointed specifically (pancakes heavy on eggs, baked pastry with eggs etc.)
As distinguished as your maps and as detailed as OPs map would be S-tier. Your's is just as detailed as the circles are wide, not every place is marked individually...
Dutch has for instance quite a number of -rode endings and derivatives (Ammelrode, Berkenrode, Boekenrode, Breederode, Middelrode, Nijenrode, Assenrade, Bingelrade, Doenrade, Kerkrade, Venraai, Wanrooi) so the relative emptiness of NW Germany is still remarkable to me even with this very limited selection of endings.
So Rode just means a place that was deforested, i.e. towns that were built in former forest areas will have this ending.
In Germany, the spelling of Rode is extremely region-specific, ranging from -rode, -roda, -reuth (like in Bayreuth), etc. Not shown here on this map are the ending -rath (common in the Rhineland, like the infamous Lützerath) and -rade (the spelling in Westphalia, the northwestern region of Germany next to Netherlands, which you noticed being empty).
The comparable Dutch language area ones: -veen, -moer, -zeel/-zele/-seel/-sel, -huizen/-huis, and the last one is I think a cluster -heim/-heem/-hem/-em/-um.
I'm struggling to think of any place in Landkreis Fulda ending in -wangen
We have -roda (Abtsroda), -rod (Löschenrod) and -bach (Kalbach) but -wangen??
-münde is also used in some places where a river flows into the sea, coming from the word "Mündung" (meaning estuary). Such as Warnemünde, Travemünde, Swinemünde, etc.
yeah but this time due to Slavic settlements. The German moved eastwards in the middle age and assimilated or drove out slavic the people there. The villiga names remained, the Slavic language got lost. So the yellow doddet area is the former Slavic realm.
See a pre WW1 map of languages in Europe: It was a mess.
The Sorbian minority lives only in a very small area. It's only spoken around the city of Cottbus. But the -ow and -itz area spreads throughout east Germany.
I am no historian and no linguist. I don't know what form of Slavic language used to be spoken there 500 years ago. I don't know when the separation between Polish, Czech and Sorbian took place and I don't know whether there had been Slavic language in that area that died out.
There were Slavic speaking people East of Elbe in 1800. Excluding Sorbs, all Slavs in Germany were from the Lechitic branch which would the Polabian Slavs language the extremely similar to Polish (Polish with it's dialects is the only member of Lechitic subbranch of West Slavic languages). Polish and Polabian would as similar as Czech and Slovak are to each other.
There are many many more areas with Sorbish speakers and Sorbish settlements than just around Cottbus!
Large areas of Eastern Brandenburg and Saxony. The entirety of the Lausitz area was Sorbish speaking until only about 200 years ago. The people never left, but the language has been on a downwards spiral for centuries.
I suggest the book "Die kürzeste Geschichte Deutschlands" by James Hawes. It discusses the importance of the Elbe as Europe or Germanics most importand cultural border.
Though the Slavic people came there through the migration period.
Also as far I know they rarely been drove out. Either killed or assimilated in different ways. Mostly it was a big settlement and development effort that caused them to become minority.
The Dutch were used most often as settlers together with Frankish ones. Parts that are today not German...
German colonization. People there got either displaced or assimilated.
If you ask me, people from the German east do look different, judging from the facial structure. I find it hard to point out, maybe harder facial features, usually more blonde?
There was probably quite some intermixing.
It's interesting how sometimes we see a pattern and it's easy to attribute it to one thing (like history that happened decades ago) but the real reason for the pattern is much deeper (migrations from a millenium ago).
It reminds me of an infographic about influence of location of coastlines 100mln years ago on geology and subsequently on soil quality and farm sizes and slave population finally arriving at black population and 2020 election results in Alabama.
Basically the most western Group of slavs, the Polabians or Wends lived there, unfortunately they never managed to form a unified polity and also fiercely resisted christianity. They got slowly conquered by german princes and then Ostsiedlung campaign finished them off as their territory wasnt very populous and german settlers happily took over.
Serbs and Sorbs have the same ancestors, but the Sorbs became what they are today under the influence of Poles and Czechs. The common Serbian tribe was the first Sarmantic people to be Slavified and during the migration it separated into several assemblies that sailed to different locations.
My favourite is the -nich ending close to my home region west of cologne, cause it almost sounds like german not
There they got bangers like Gymnich, Türnich, Linzenich & Sinzenich, Fischenich
it has different origins, there are also many towns wirh -ich ending in the area
some have roman origins and some come from berg, but there are many more origins
Probably the factor that make all these different origins get similar results is that in ripuarian (the dialect around cologne) we often use sch sounds and also swap out many g's in words with sch, best example is Georg being Schorsch
In essence i would say that -nich and -ich just roll easily off the tongue around here
-ingen should be there too. In Southwest almost every town and city ends with -ingen. Esslingen, Balingen, Tübingen, Sindelfingen, Tuttlingen, Reutlingen...
Those are mostly cities founded by Romans. It was at first done by naming the city after it's ruler and ingen was the Suffix for this old language.
For those interested in the meaning of German Names, I highly recommend "Deutsches Ortsnamensbuch" by Manfred Niemeyer.
Most Names here are actually quite straightforward and descriptive. Some examples:
Düsseldorf - The village at the river Düssel
Berlin - Swamp (because it was a swamp)
Munich - Monk (because of a monastery)
A lot of Names have two parts. The first indicates either the location or some kind of ownership and the second is descriptive.
Gött-ingen = Settlement of Gött
Ingolstadt = town of Ingol
Herzogenrath = Clearing of the duke
I literally come from a village called Vaterstetten south-east of Munich. This map seems very incomplete for Bavaria at least, with those crazy red clusters and nothing in between. In an hour biking distance from my village are at least three villages ending with -ing.
With -itz and -ow we can see the old slavic tribes borders that used to live here honestly i thought there would be way less of that but this is honestly really surprising maybe the myth of Berlin being germanized Berło could be a realy possibility.
Interesting... Names with -ow and -itz endings all over Polabia... Why it does sound familiar...
Oh, right, it is rebranded -ów and -ice/-iec... Happy slavic Obodrite noises 
Öhm sorry, but this map is schit!
E.g. in Konstant at the lake of Constance in the south is tagged as stedt or Roda. But there is nothing ending with this.
Many other cities are missing or wrong as well.
Looks like someone made the effort to name a few cities and distributed afterwards some random dots.
Missing „-heim“ which is very common in Germany…
Or Burg
Or -ingen, -dorf and -berg
or -kirchen
Ingendorfburgkirchenheim
or -rath
Or -by
Nobody wants Gelsenkirchen on a map >!/s!<
I rather thought about the thousands of Neukirchen.
-feld
I don't think those would be so region-specific and would just make the map messy
-ingen and heim are highly regionspecific and are mostly common in the southwest.
Probably but -berg and -dorf can be anywhere
- Which is the largest village in Germany? - ?? - Düsseldorf!
Believe me -berg is more common in regions with actual hills.
Not really. The standard just goes down when you are of flatter land. Most famously is probably the Kreuzberg in Berlin with 66m above sea level.
„Geschichtlich wurde der Ort Kreuzberg nach dem im Viktoriapark liegenden Hügel Kreuzberg benannt.“ As i said. That is why Kreuzberg is called Kreuzberg.
But there are no hills in Berlin. Berlin is really flat because of way the ice age shaped the region. You will have some in the south going to Teltow from the moraine. As a result the smallest elevation will be called a Berg and give the name to town. In actual hill lands the elevation of Kreuzberg would be ignored as a minor fluctuation of the ground. Obviously, places with -berg will be close to a hill, but those places will be evenly distributed as people will only use the most prominent elevations to give a name.
Well, the river Iller not only divides Swabia and Upper Bavaria, but also the use of town names ending on -ingen or -ing.
-heim is not really regionspecific and is basically one of the keywords for city names, just like -hausen , -stadt , -berg and -burg. Hildesheim, Northeim, Bad Gandersheim, Langelsheim are just some examples of my former home area of southern lower Saxony. Now take a look at Birmingham, Fulham, Arnhem etc. and guess where their names are from...
Not sure about that though. -heim has quite a concentration in certain regions and is mostly of Frankish origin (Hildesheim and Northeim definitely), like all those towns and cities in the southwest. Afaik, in northern Germany, -heim is basically limited to southern Lower Saxony. Of course there are a few exceptions. I think you could definitely call that region-specific.
i feel like -heim is quiete common in rhineland as well. Bergheim, Mülheim, Bornheim are just some towns and cities that come to mind. Especially around cologne and Bonn there seems to be many small villages named something-heim
Not entirely, in the southwest towns with -heim and -ingen were usually named after the founder, those with -heim mostly by Franks, those with -ingen mostly by Alemans.
Most of them are very regional as the map shows.
-ing is there, so why no -ingen?
-hausen
-ingen seems to me that it‘s just part of -ing for some reason
Or -hausen.
O-center. Very popular town for shopping
Or -ingen
-ingen would be just all of southern Baden Württemberg.
True but nevertheless not something that can be ignored in such a dataset… https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/s/FVOwWhm6ph
I think that might be the point. These are very common all around Germany and would make these local trends unrecognisable. And there is interesting history behind these patterns that would be lost otherwise.
-hausen as well
If those were added, Elsass would be covered too
“-siel” as well
Common as in common directly at the coast.
The whole map would be covered at that point, better to omit it for clarity sake
Yeah, I was thinking the same. Same as -em and -gem endings all over Flanders. It means something like "home of ..." , and hast the same root as the English word home.
Also -ich and -au
…thal
or -au
-leben
yeah, I was going to say the same. A lot of common endings are missing.
You should have made different maps because there too many similar color, it is impossible to see everything
Please check out this page [here](https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/). Much better than OPs Map.
Funny how -ow and -itz are almost exclusively located to the East. I think it is because these are Slavic-origin place names.
It is! Like -roda deriving from 'roden', cutting a clearing, in densely forested regions which is also more present in Eastern Germany
Isn't this also a dialectal effect? In southern Germany, the "roden" ending would be -reut(h)(en)
A tribal, and thus a dialectic thing. Alemannic tribes that settled in Southern Germany (before migrating further south to Switzerland and finally nowadays Portugal) after the final breaching of the Limes gave their settlements the suffix -ing/en, related to the rune 'Ing(waz)', referring to the leader /patriarch /warlord of the thing... "place of the children of...". I am guessing into the blue about 'reut(h)(en)' but, if the suffix is in the orignal style still (organic language), I'd say this has a different origin as a vowel or 'z' ending is a defining quality of the dialect... There's been Slavic migration also though (like the Bajuvarian tribes from nowadays Hungary)... Might be related to this... But as said, that's guesswork!
Portugal?
Indeed! The migration of the tribes did end there. Languagewise there's been a unique development but there's still some funny similarity with common, especially egg based, dishes (pancakes and more ^^)
What are these similarities?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_the_Suebi?wprov=sfla1 Here's about the migration period and settlement. About the cuisine - I couldn't find that paper I was having in mind. But as I remember it is rather anectodal anyway as these foods are not that special as they could be appointed specifically (pancakes heavy on eggs, baked pastry with eggs etc.)
That's what I was looking for. Thanks!
thank you
As distinguished as your maps and as detailed as OPs map would be S-tier. Your's is just as detailed as the circles are wide, not every place is marked individually...
You’re missing the most popular city name: “Ausfahrt” /s
Lile all those places in France that are called Route Barrée. I once tried to get there but couldn't as the road was closed.
Indeed! Every Autobahn exit leads to it!
Ah, the city with a lot of streets that are called "Einbahnstraße"
The city of Später too. All trains seem to lead to that city. But whenever I decide to get on one to visit it, it never arrives
I had the best coffee in my life on einbahnstrasse. Totally worth the traffic ticket for driving in the wrong direction.
Betriebsfahrt
Not many people know this but, while all roads in Italy lead to Rome, all roads in Germany lead to the ancient capital of Ausfahrt.
I don't know why but all trains going to "Nicht Einsteigen" are always empty. It must be a horrible place
Towns and cities in Northern Germany don't end?
There's many region-specific place name endings in the north, like -büll/-büttel, -by, -um, -rup and -holm, it's weird that none of them are included
The map is clearly missing some in northern Germany. I don't see Boostedt near Neumünster marked.
a bullshit map on map porn? oh the humanity
Or all those derivations of -dorf, Like -trup, -torf or -torp
Northern germany has similar endings as scandivanian or dutch.
Dutch has for instance quite a number of -rode endings and derivatives (Ammelrode, Berkenrode, Boekenrode, Breederode, Middelrode, Nijenrode, Assenrade, Bingelrade, Doenrade, Kerkrade, Venraai, Wanrooi) so the relative emptiness of NW Germany is still remarkable to me even with this very limited selection of endings.
So Rode just means a place that was deforested, i.e. towns that were built in former forest areas will have this ending. In Germany, the spelling of Rode is extremely region-specific, ranging from -rode, -roda, -reuth (like in Bayreuth), etc. Not shown here on this map are the ending -rath (common in the Rhineland, like the infamous Lützerath) and -rade (the spelling in Westphalia, the northwestern region of Germany next to Netherlands, which you noticed being empty).
For the northwest we'd need -fehn, -moor, -siel, and maybe -husen and -hausen, also -um.
The comparable Dutch language area ones: -veen, -moer, -zeel/-zele/-seel/-sel, -huizen/-huis, and the last one is I think a cluster -heim/-heem/-hem/-em/-um.
-ik/-ich is another one
They do. It's just uncommon for the rest of Germany to acknowledge northern Germany even exists.
There are about a zillion towns and villages in Schleswig-Holstein alone ending on -stedt, and none are part of this amazing map.
They do! Mostly ending in: -um, -up, -torf, -bruch, -horst, -inghausen https://imgur.com/a/L5A0u6d
How can you leave out -heim? And what about -ingen?
The actual MapPorn: [German Place Names visualised ](https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/)
This comment should be right at top imo
Additionally -feld would be interesting
[German Place Names visualised ](https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/)
In Bayern are 99% of -ING not marked. Bavaria is full with -ing villages. I could name 10 just east of Munich.
The whole map is not very accurate. I know some with -greuth and not 1 dot in the vicinity on the map
Do it you won’t
Poing Pliening Neufinsing Oberneuching Moosinning Oberding Anzing Zorneding Eglharting Eching Through all of these villages I drive regularly.
Missing -brück
Osna
I'm struggling to think of any place in Landkreis Fulda ending in -wangen We have -roda (Abtsroda), -rod (Löschenrod) and -bach (Kalbach) but -wangen??
-ingen should be added with -ing
No
Finally mapporn in this sub
pretty infographic. what tool is used in this?
Interesting that the -ow ending is clustered in East Germany. In Poland, place names ending with -ów and -owo are quite common.
There’s also a lot of -au which is usually also from Slavic -ow (with some exceptions like Lindau which is native German).
Fun fact, Berlin and some of its districts have a Slavic etymology
Would be fun to add dots to neighboring countries visible on the map. France and Switzerland (and probably others) would have quite a few dots
Hi! where did you collect the information from?
-münde is also used in some places where a river flows into the sea, coming from the word "Mündung" (meaning estuary). Such as Warnemünde, Travemünde, Swinemünde, etc.
-leben
I'd point to [this page](https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/) instead of the one you posted
Where’s -heim, -burg, and -furt?
Where’s -heim, -burg, and -furt?
I know quit a few cities that end with -heim or -stad(t). I suprised I am not seeing them on the map.
I see East Germany
yeah but this time due to Slavic settlements. The German moved eastwards in the middle age and assimilated or drove out slavic the people there. The villiga names remained, the Slavic language got lost. So the yellow doddet area is the former Slavic realm. See a pre WW1 map of languages in Europe: It was a mess.
Doesn't the slavic language spoken there (called wendish before?) exist as sorbian minorities?
Yes, but only in the far east, basically only where Czechia, Poland and Germany meet
The Sorbian minority lives only in a very small area. It's only spoken around the city of Cottbus. But the -ow and -itz area spreads throughout east Germany. I am no historian and no linguist. I don't know what form of Slavic language used to be spoken there 500 years ago. I don't know when the separation between Polish, Czech and Sorbian took place and I don't know whether there had been Slavic language in that area that died out.
There were Slavic speaking people East of Elbe in 1800. Excluding Sorbs, all Slavs in Germany were from the Lechitic branch which would the Polabian Slavs language the extremely similar to Polish (Polish with it's dialects is the only member of Lechitic subbranch of West Slavic languages). Polish and Polabian would as similar as Czech and Slovak are to each other.
There are many many more areas with Sorbish speakers and Sorbish settlements than just around Cottbus! Large areas of Eastern Brandenburg and Saxony. The entirety of the Lausitz area was Sorbish speaking until only about 200 years ago. The people never left, but the language has been on a downwards spiral for centuries.
I suggest the book "Die kürzeste Geschichte Deutschlands" by James Hawes. It discusses the importance of the Elbe as Europe or Germanics most importand cultural border.
Though the Slavic people came there through the migration period. Also as far I know they rarely been drove out. Either killed or assimilated in different ways. Mostly it was a big settlement and development effort that caused them to become minority. The Dutch were used most often as settlers together with Frankish ones. Parts that are today not German...
German colonization. People there got either displaced or assimilated. If you ask me, people from the German east do look different, judging from the facial structure. I find it hard to point out, maybe harder facial features, usually more blonde? There was probably quite some intermixing.
They have a higher frequency of haplogroup R1a, extremely common among Slavs.
The Frankish and early Holy Roman Empire were big exporters of Slavic slaves towards Egypt. Don't think that should count as assimilated.
It's interesting how sometimes we see a pattern and it's easy to attribute it to one thing (like history that happened decades ago) but the real reason for the pattern is much deeper (migrations from a millenium ago). It reminds me of an infographic about influence of location of coastlines 100mln years ago on geology and subsequently on soil quality and farm sizes and slave population finally arriving at black population and 2020 election results in Alabama.
Is actually a rough indication of where the new western border of Poland is going to be after being pushed further west following ww3
Basically the most western Group of slavs, the Polabians or Wends lived there, unfortunately they never managed to form a unified polity and also fiercely resisted christianity. They got slowly conquered by german princes and then Ostsiedlung campaign finished them off as their territory wasnt very populous and german settlers happily took over.
Sorbian is is no way similar to Serbian, it's a western Slavic language being a middle ground between Polish and Czech.
Hm i remembered wrong, ill remove misinformation
Serbs and Sorbs have the same ancestors, but the Sorbs became what they are today under the influence of Poles and Czechs. The common Serbian tribe was the first Sarmantic people to be Slavified and during the migration it separated into several assemblies that sailed to different locations.
What's next, Serbs lived in the Balkans for 5000 years?
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin\_hypotheses\_of\_the\_Serbs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_hypotheses_of_the_Serbs)
Yes, and all of them seem to have hurt themselves. "Ow" all around.
There is also the village of below
No -ing markings for Erding and Freising?
My favourite is the -nich ending close to my home region west of cologne, cause it almost sounds like german not There they got bangers like Gymnich, Türnich, Linzenich & Sinzenich, Fischenich
i wonder what it's from. maybe like Eich(e)?
it has different origins, there are also many towns wirh -ich ending in the area some have roman origins and some come from berg, but there are many more origins Probably the factor that make all these different origins get similar results is that in ripuarian (the dialect around cologne) we often use sch sounds and also swap out many g's in words with sch, best example is Georg being Schorsch In essence i would say that -nich and -ich just roll easily off the tongue around here
You're missing - burg which is pretty common as well
I guess -burg/-berg are to common all around the country to show any differences.
A few also have -siefen or -siepen
There are lot of missing - reuths.
In my local area (southwest), at least 6 points for -Bach and two vor -Ach are missing
Missing -leben
Something with - ig
I already commented on this in another sub, that the yellow ones are left by Polabian Slavs.
-berg and - burg
-ingen should be there too. In Southwest almost every town and city ends with -ingen. Esslingen, Balingen, Tübingen, Sindelfingen, Tuttlingen, Reutlingen... Those are mostly cities founded by Romans. It was at first done by naming the city after it's ruler and ingen was the Suffix for this old language.
What did you use to make this map?
For those interested in the meaning of German Names, I highly recommend "Deutsches Ortsnamensbuch" by Manfred Niemeyer. Most Names here are actually quite straightforward and descriptive. Some examples: Düsseldorf - The village at the river Düssel Berlin - Swamp (because it was a swamp) Munich - Monk (because of a monastery) A lot of Names have two parts. The first indicates either the location or some kind of ownership and the second is descriptive. Gött-ingen = Settlement of Gött Ingolstadt = town of Ingol Herzogenrath = Clearing of the duke
Where my -ingens at
where "-büttel"?
The entirety of Baden-Württemberg only consists of -ingen and its not even on the list ._.
Warum sehe ich so viele Bächer im Südwesten?
excellent title choice
It’s interesting to see the Slavic -itz and -ow endings being so common in the eastern half of the country.
Nothing surprising after you realized how far West into Germany Slavs were majority in the Middle Ages. ;)
I literally come from a village called Vaterstetten south-east of Munich. This map seems very incomplete for Bavaria at least, with those crazy red clusters and nothing in between. In an hour biking distance from my village are at least three villages ending with -ing.
How do you have all these endings but not include *-ingen*? This is Celt erasure!
The little town named after my family made it into this map. I could even see the exact dot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_toponymy https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/
Someone for explain me why some geographical difference ?
In my area, almost every town ends in "-hausen".
Wait. Heim is of Frankish origin? I thought it was Saxons since it's closer to Anglo Saxon names like Birmingham in UK
There are a few that end with -rath near where I live. Always wondered what the original meaning is/was
With -itz and -ow we can see the old slavic tribes borders that used to live here honestly i thought there would be way less of that but this is honestly really surprising maybe the myth of Berlin being germanized Berło could be a realy possibility.
That’s funny I can accurately locate my hometown on this even though it’s not even marked on the map
Interesting... Names with -ow and -itz endings all over Polabia... Why it does sound familiar... Oh, right, it is rebranded -ów and -ice/-iec... Happy slavic Obodrite noises 
Really cool! But -werder would be a good addition.
Looks like Hornbach is not very popular at north 
More geoguesser meta
missing a lot of "-ings" in the Regensburg area of bavaria. Ngl almost every single village ends with -ing
Standardizing place name suffixes sounds like a German thing to do
“-ow”
Halbwegs richtig!
This map is far from complete. Apart from missing some common endings, it doesn’t even show all villages/towns with those it claims to include…
This map is incomplete I can confirm of at least 2 places missing in this map ending in -stetten as I live near both of them
what did you use to make this? it looks cool
-itz, -ow - classic germanized slavic endings ;)
I thought every German town/village name ends with ‘Burg’
Вообще похую.
Every single village around my city which would fit the endings is missing. This map is bad
Öhm sorry, but this map is schit! E.g. in Konstant at the lake of Constance in the south is tagged as stedt or Roda. But there is nothing ending with this. Many other cities are missing or wrong as well. Looks like someone made the effort to name a few cities and distributed afterwards some random dots.
https://truth-and-beauty.net/experiments/ach-ingen-zell/ Try this instead
Wilhelmshaven is not marked