Name origin of streets in Moers (en)
Апублікавана карыстальнікам tffmh 20 Снежань 2022 на мове EnglishOverview
Over the last year in context of Code for Niederrhein (CFN), especially the weekly online meetings, we have added the origin of the names of the streets in Moers to OSM. We added description, wikipedia- and wikidatalinks.
More than 1000 streets were processed.
The book “Moeser Straßen - Geschichte und Deutung - zum 700-jährigen Stadtjubiläum” (Moeser streets - history and interpretation - on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of the town) by Peter Hostermann, published by the town of Moers and made available online, was our main source. In addition to a comprehensive ethymological study, the book also contains the dates when the streets were named, in many cases the date of the town council decision that led to the naming. The book also lists renamings, so that we were able to include these for Moers if the course of the street remained identical or if an exact description of the old course of the street is documented.
In addition, the street index has been entered for many streets; here the work is not yet complete and will be pursued further.
Tags used:
- name:etymology:wikidata
- name:etymology:wikipedia
- name:etymology:description
- name:start_date (yyyy-mm-dd)
- old_name: VON-BIS (yyyy)
- de:strassenschluessel
Crew
- black_bike
- tffmh
- Nastja G
- noninc
Web
You can see the results at the following link (might take some more days until all data is up to date): https://etymology.dsantini.it/?lang=en-EN#6.633,51.46,13.3,type
“Moeser Straßen - Geschichte und Deutung - zum 700-jährigen Stadtjubiläum”: https://www.moers.de/system/files/2022-07/moerser_strassen.pdf
Code for Niederrhein: https://www.codeforniederrhein.de
OSM Project page: osm.wiki/Moers/Projekte/Stra%C3%9Fennamen
Findings
Some interesting take-aways from our work, with no claim to completeness, historical or other relevance.
General
A cadastral map existed from 1831, this being the first source of street names.