Re: [tied] Jastorf

>The only two I
> > > can find, using a good tourist map, are Plön and Preetz in

Holstein.

> > > The former looks promising, cognate with Latin 'planum' (Kuhn

has a

> > > Plön in the Nordwestblock area), the latter is suspiciuosly

close to

> > > the formerly Slavic Wagria and might itself be Slavic. Anybody

have a

> > > suggestion?
> > >Torsten
> > ******
> > I'll be back if I can find anything on Preetz.
>
> Didn't take long. From the official town Web site:
> "Im ursprünglich wendischen Namen der Siedlung "po rece" (1216),
> "Poretzie" (1221), "Pretze" (1442) später Preetz = "am Fluss" liegt
> auch ein Stück ihrer Geschichte, denn mit dem Fluss ist die
> Schwentine, die immer noch durch Preetz fließt, gemeint. Schon zur
> Zeit der Wenden war die hier vorhandene Furt in der Schwentine im
> Verlaufe der Verbindung Kiel – Lübeck."
> Seems to me a lot more convincing than "ice-free water" for

Plön.

> If we have Slavic etymologies (at least one a good one), do we

need to

> consider Torsten's Nordwestblock obsession?

Yes, that was the question Nordwestblock-obsessed Torsten asked.


Torsten