[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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