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in reply to a message by Lucille
Hi Lucille,
Hückelhoven is the name of a town which is situated in West-Germany quite close to the Dutch border between Mönchengladbach and Aachen. The name was the name of a house in the beginning, later the whole village (and later the town) took over the name. The owner of this first house was Reinhard von Huckilhoven.
I'm not sure about the first part of the name. Maybe it comes from "Huck" or "Hück" which is a dialectal expression for "corner, nook" or maybe from "Hucke" which was a Middle High German word for a "hawker, huckster", or from the surname Huchel, which derives from the first name Huch which is a form of Hugo.
The second part of the name "hoven" which is a Dutch and Low German word for a "(farm-)stead". - You find the same suffix in Ludwig van Beethovens surname which means "from the rape/beet farmstead".
The name Schovenberg sounds like a Dutch or German place name as well, but I could't find any town or village with that name. I don't know what the first part of the name means (I was thinking about words like "Schaf" (sheep) "scharf" (sharp) or "schief" (sloping, crooked, inclined)????), but the last part "Berg" means "mountain".
Regards, Judith
Hückelhoven is the name of a town which is situated in West-Germany quite close to the Dutch border between Mönchengladbach and Aachen. The name was the name of a house in the beginning, later the whole village (and later the town) took over the name. The owner of this first house was Reinhard von Huckilhoven.
I'm not sure about the first part of the name. Maybe it comes from "Huck" or "Hück" which is a dialectal expression for "corner, nook" or maybe from "Hucke" which was a Middle High German word for a "hawker, huckster", or from the surname Huchel, which derives from the first name Huch which is a form of Hugo.
The second part of the name "hoven" which is a Dutch and Low German word for a "(farm-)stead". - You find the same suffix in Ludwig van Beethovens surname which means "from the rape/beet farmstead".
The name Schovenberg sounds like a Dutch or German place name as well, but I could't find any town or village with that name. I don't know what the first part of the name means (I was thinking about words like "Schaf" (sheep) "scharf" (sharp) or "schief" (sloping, crooked, inclined)????), but the last part "Berg" means "mountain".
Regards, Judith
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