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Jun 21 2007, 12:29 pm
Just came across this today and thought it's useful to understand the origin of places/names up here in the north:
QUOTE (hamburg-magazine.de)
Neu im Hamburg Magazin:
HanseWiki – Was bedeutet der Straßenname "Reeperbahn"? Was ist ein "Fleetenkieker"? Wie bereitet man "Labskaus" zu? Wissen Sie es oder kennen Sie die Bedeutung weiterer ungewöhnlicher Straßennamen oder interessanter Hamburger Begriffe? Dann schreiben Sie doch gleich einen Beitrag in unserem neuen HanseWiki und Sie können mit dabei sein, wenn ein Hamburger "Lexikon" entsteht.
silty1
Jun 24 2007, 1:23 am
don't see the point, really. isn't wikipedia in german as well? why balkanise the source of info?
Fallen Angel
Jun 24 2007, 8:35 am
Actually, I just saw a thing on TV about where the word Reeperbahn comes from. Back in the day, Reeper was the word for rope in Hamburg (or maybe other places as well- not sure if it was a regional dialect thing or not)- and the Reeperbahn was a street where they made rope. There you have it.
Edit: Not quite 100% accurate. Reep was the rope, Reeper were the ropemakers.
miwild
Jun 24 2007, 12:54 pm
RopewalkA ropewalk is a long straight narrow lane, or a covered pathway, where long strands of material were laid before being twisted in to rope ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ropewalk
Fallen Angel
Jun 24 2007, 1:01 pm
Ah, that makes more sense.
Thanks.
jeremyhay
Aug 8 2007, 10:23 pm
Many names in HH ain't Hochdeutsch - They are Plattdeutsch.
Many older folk understand it - in the Hamburger Abendblatt
there is a regular Platt column.
Plattdeutsch exists from the Dutch border to the Baltic coast
but mostly amongst older people in rural communities.
Platt has similarities with modern Dutch and there are
various types such as Mecklenburger Platt.
