| Garde de Paris | 15 Oct 2021 8:18 a.m. PST |
During WWII, the town of Herzogenaurach (14 miles northwest of Nurnberg, had a Folk Wulf airbase. After the war, the US Army Security Agency took over the base for signal intelligence, language experts, and the like. I was in the ASA, stationed on the Czech border, for 19 months with Herzo Base as my Battalion HQ. The Agency left in 1971, and the town now has the HQ's for Adidas and Puma – sport shoes. Herog is Duke. What does "Enaurach" mean? The computer is of no help. GdeP |
| Andoreth | 15 Oct 2021 8:33 a.m. PST |
Herzogen is possibly an alternative to Herzogin meaning a Duchess. There is the place name Aurach in Bavaria which is a municipality. This name is thought to derive from Aurochs the cattle and shows it was a cattle breeding area. |
| rotscheck | 15 Oct 2021 8:34 a.m. PST |
I found this: link So it's possible that "Herzog en Aurach" is "Duke of Aurach"?
Just a guess based on (long-ago) high-school German.
ed: aaaaand beat to it.
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 Mserafin  | 15 Oct 2021 8:37 a.m. PST |
I ran it through a free translator on the web (Reverso Context) and it doesn't translate to anything on there. Apparently a unique place name, possibly it once meant something but time either changed the word or it was forgotten. That's my guess, at least. |
| GurKhan | 15 Oct 2021 9:20 a.m. PST |
The town sits on the river Aurach (link; link), which is where half the name presumably comes from. It looks to me to mean something like "the Duke's [town] on the Aurach". |
| Garde de Paris | 15 Oct 2021 9:44 a.m. PST |
Amazing responses! Thank you all! Possibly originally Herzogin Aurach, Duchess (of) Aurach? The Aurach look like a creek! Many Thanks. Vielendank! GdeP |
| John the OFM | 15 Oct 2021 10:57 a.m. PST |
It could be an unflattering description of said Duchess.
Much like the two mistresses in "Cam ye o'er frae France".
YouTube link |
| monk2002uk | 16 Oct 2021 10:52 p.m. PST |
'On' as in 'on the River X' is 'an' or 'am' in German. 'Herzogenaurach' splits into 'Herzogen' and 'Aurach', which is the name of the river as noted above. 'Herzogen' are 'dukes', as in the plural of 'duke' not the possessive form 'duke's'. Robert |
| johannes55 | 17 Oct 2021 1:40 a.m. PST |
According to wkepedia the name aurach comes frome uraha of which ur is cattle and aha = flowing water so prbably a place where cattle drank water at the river. As probably there were more "aurach's" to differ between them they put herzogen (from duke) in front or maybe it belonged to a duke, mentioned is the duke of Andechs-meranie
So in english it would simply be Dukes' Aurach |
| robert piepenbrink | 17 Oct 2021 4:34 p.m. PST |
Agree with johannes. I'm incredibly stale, but I think "herzogen" is an adjectival form--something like "ducal." Think "Duke's Denver" from the Peter Wimsey novels. |
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