Talk:Aabenraa

Monkeys
I removed the sentence "(The German version Apenrade is Low German for "monkeys' council"!)" but it was reverted. I just wonder how this whimsical information can be regarded relevant? It is similar to saying that Warsaw means war + saw in English, or Glasgow has something to do with glass, or Moscow with cows.

The German name of Åbenrå was modelled over the ending -rade, a common place name ending in Holstein. Merchants and civil servants were often Low German speaking and came from Holstein, so a Low German version of the name emerged. The letter a often had (and has) an o-like sound in Low German, so it would make sense to them that the name pronounced in the local Danish dialect as Obenroe or Offenro could be written Apenrade. I never heard about the monkey version before. --Sasper 08:22, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

It could be that the German form preserved the outcome of an ancestral Old Norse 'ð' sound which disappeared in Danish. Compare Pskov in Russia, which was formerly called Plskov, and has a German form Pleskau. Anthony Appleyard 05:22, 16 October 2007 (UTC)


 * As far as I know, Apenrade was a neologism created in the 19th century. Sakkura (talk) 01:57, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

Population
The article says that Aabenraa's population is approximately 22,000, however, according to this source, the population of Aabenraa's urban area is only approximately 16,100. That would mean that the population of the city can't be higher than that number, probably slightly lower. However, i'm not certain how reliable that source is. Anyone know for sure how many people live in Aabenraa? --Aqwis 21:39, 18 August 2007 (UTC)


 * I just checked at the website of Danmarks Statistik, the official Danish bureau of statistics. The population of Aabenraa Municipality was 60,044 on january 1, 2007, while the population of the town of Aabenraa was 16,003. Sakkura 01:23, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Etymology of Aabenraa

 * the article states that "ts name— Aabenraa, dialect Affenrå— meant originally "open beach" (Danish: åben strand)". Is there any source for that? as far as I know, the name derives from Opnør Å (literally Opnør stream). Any thoughts? - M.W.A. 10:06, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * When is the name first recorded from? Is there a Danish equivalent of the English Place-Name Society, to ask? Anthony Appleyard 10:30, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

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