3. Abbreviations

At first glance this gazetteer may appear to be a little confusing, but it has actually been prepared in a very orderly manner. The following is the order in which you will usually find each part listed.

B.

The name of each place is given first, in alphabetical order. Using the Gothic alphabet given on the first page of this Appendix, determine from the Roman print what the Gothic

print equivalent would be for each letter. Then, beginning with the first letter of the place name, locate that letter in the gazetteer. Continue on to the second and third letters doing the same thing until you have actually located the exact place in the gazetteer. The following example shows how this is done:

Most of the places listed in this gazetteer are very small and for that reason complete entries are not given for them. Instead, you are referred to the nearest larger place. This is done by the use of the Gothic letter (s), which is the abbreviation for the German word “Siehe” meaning see. After this abbreviation, the name of the next larger place is given.

As can be seen by the examples given, the next larger place for Hebersreuth is continued on the line above; the next larger place for Heberthal is given on the same line, and the next larger place for Heberting is continued on the line below. By looking the next larger place name up in the Gazetteer, a complete entry will be given and the information on the larger place will usually pertain to the smaller place as well. There will be times, however, when this will not be true. There may be times when the smaller place will have a different parish or civil registry than the larger place. When trying to locate the parish, it is advisable to use the complete entry of the larger place to determine the name of the kingdom, province, or duchy and then go to the reference for that kingdom in Chapter 8 to determine the parish.

C.

Listed after each place name is one of following descriptive abbreviations: name is one of the following descriptive abbreviations:

	(Ab.)	Abbau	(surface mine)
	(AllGut.)	Allodialgut	(allodial estate)
	(D.)	Dorf	(village)
	(Dom.)	Domäne	(State-owned estate
	(Ein.)	Einöde	(wilderness
	(Fl.)	Flecken	((Hamlet)
	(Fürstt.)	Füstentum	(principality)
	(Gem.)	Gemeinde	(community)
	(H.)	Häus	(house)
	(Hr.)	Häuser	(houses)
	(Hrgr.)	Häusergruppe	(group of houses)
	(Hzt.)	Herzogtum	(duchy)
	(Kol.)	Kolonie	(colony)
	(LGem.)	Landgemeinde	(rural community)
	(Ml.)	Mühle	(mill)
	(Rg.)	Rittergut	(landed estate)
	(St.)	Stadt	(city)
	(Vw.)	Vorwerk	(residence or farm)
	(Wlr.)	Weiler	(farm or small village)
	(Zk.)	Zinken	(outlying farm)