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Wilfried Petersen
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Max Burgdorf
Re: [HN] Burgdorf or Burchtorf?
2008/02/01 13:27:10
colette
[HN] Lelsehilfe bei Ortsnamen		 Autor 2008/02/20 16:36:20
colette
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[HN] Burgdorf or Burchtorf?

Date: 2008/02/15 21:57:56
From: colette <colette.llorca(a)orange.fr>

Hello Max Burgdorf and others interested in the Burgdorf spelling problem:

The origin of this family name is the place name of Burgdorf. There are two of them in Niedersachsen. One north-east of Hannover near Uetze, the other one sout-east, roughly between Hildesheim and Salzgitter.
Max' family must have lived in one of the two places, then went to live in another place where they were called "from Burgdorf". Eventually Burgdorf became their family name.

Burchtorf is a dialectal deformation of Burgdorf (composed of Burg and Dorf). The g at the end of a syllable is usually pronounced like the ch in "ich", Burg sounds like Burch and is written as heard. T for d in Dorf is a common mis-spelling in past centuries when spelling was more a private than an official affair.

Does this help?

Regards
Colette (Llorca)

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