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From: Hans-Jürgen Adams <>
Subject: Re: [OSTF] ......rich
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 21:03:46 +0200
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I don't think Hammrich is a combined term because in Platt it is Hammerk.
Aurich in Platt is Auerk.
The term Aa for a small river is here Ee or Ehe - thus the "Sandhorster Ehe"
is flowing to Ems river. There is a specialist for old location names, the
former leader of the "Katasteramt" (land register) at Aurich, but as far as
I know he has no email.

Jürgen

WebSite: www.wiesmoor-info.de
----- Original Message -----
From: "Teijo Doornkamp" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [OSTF] ......rich


> Interesting indeed, one of the explanations I've read for Aurich was
indeed
> Aa (river) and rich (reich, wealthy). But I've never thought about
hamm-rich
> as two words. In Platt-Gronings hamrik exists with the same meaning, but
not
> aurik or so. Eg in Oosterhamrikkade, a street name in the city of
Groningen.
> I've no idea what hamm should mean.
>
> Teijo
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 5:53 PM
> Subject: [OSTF] ......rich
>
>
> Very interesting. I had mistakenly assumed that Bunderhammrich, my
> grandmother's home, meant suburb of Bunde. I concluded this because of
its
> location and other such relationships I had noted on maps. Then, what
does
> the "hamm" in the name Bunderhammrich mean?
> Russ
>
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