Schnackenburg

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Schnackenburg
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Lüchow-Dannenberg
Municipal assoc.	Gartow
Town subdivisions	4 Ortsteile
Mayor	Andreas Koch
Basic statistics
Area	23.67 km² (9.1 sq mi)
Elevation	17 m  (56 ft)
Population	669  (30/06/2005)
- Density	28 /km² (73 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	DAN
Postal code	29493
Area code	05840
Website	www.gartow.de Coordinates: 53°02′12″N 11°34′05″E / 53.03667, 11.56806

Schnackenburg is a town in the Lüchow-Dannenberg district, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated on the left bank of the Elbe. It is part of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Gartow.

The Polabian name of Schnackenburg is Godegord (also spelled Godegür in older German reference material), probably from god (< Slavic *gadă) ‘snake’ and gord (< Slavic *gordă) ‘fortress’, ‘town’. The German name Schnackenburg appears to be derived from Low Saxon Snaak or Snack ‘snake’ (plural Snaken or Snacken) and Borg ‘fortress’, ‘town’.

[edit] References

• Johann Parum Schultze; Reinhold Olesch (Hrsg.): Fontes linguae Dravaenopolabicae minores et Chronica Venedica J. P. Schultzii. (= Slavistische Forschungen; Band 7). Böhlau, Köln und Graz 1967
• Christian Hennig von Jessen: Vocabularium Venedicum (oder Wendisches Wörter-Buch) (1705). Nachdruck besorgt von Reinhold Olesch. - Köln [u.a.]: Böhlau 1959 (Gewährsmann des Pastors C. Hennig von Jessen war der polabisch sprechende Bauer Johann Janieschge aus Klennow)

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