[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] ITTERMANN
Günther Böhm
GHBoehm at ish.de
Mon Feb 19 03:42:19 PST 2007
Günther Böhm schrieb:
> the earliest ITTERMANN in the IGI are from Solingen, Rhine province,
> Prussia. You find still earlier ITTERMAN as steel curers and grinders
> in the Solingen brotherhood of craftsmen in 17th century (
> http://home.arcor.de/maramut/02arc/nam1koe.htm and
> http://home.arcor.de/maramut/02arc/hebbuch1.htm ). Their name origin
> is quite clearly the Itter, a little river with its source in
> Gräfrath, Solingen, and its estuary into the Rhine south of
> Düsseldorf. It is also the local river of my home town Hilden. Knife
> curing and grinding is still alive in present Gräfrath and Solingen is
> still the German 'Klingenstadt' (city of blades).
> The carnival salutation in Hilden is 'Itter Itter Helau!'
Nelson,
sorry for repeating my answers posted April 16, 2003 (my brain is
getting old). But I can just confirm: If your ITTERMANN name is not the
result of a misspelling, it can't be translated into Russian or Polish
because it derives from the Itter river name.
Günther
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