Kloster Schönau

Or Schönau Abbey if you'd prefer.  An abbey in the Rheinland-Palatinate where you can go to see the skull of Elisabeth of Schönau.  Or just enjoy wandering round about.

Quite close to here is a village called Zorn.  One of those really odd place names that you can find in Germany.  "Der Zorn" means rage or wrath.  And I can't imagine you'd want to tell people that you live in Zorn.  That would wear you down, I think.

However, when it comes to funny (and here I mean to "funny to foreigners who still have the sophistication of a 12 year old"), there are some GREAT place names in Germany.

This place is in Bavaria.  And it is charmingly split in into upper-<name-edited> and under-<name-edited>.

Kotzen is a place in Brandenburg.  And in changed its name from Cozym to Kotzen way back in the 14th century.  The name means "to throw up" in German.

Also up that way is Busendorf.  Or "Breast Village".  Heading back down south you could visit Busenberg, or Breast Mountain.

There's Feuchtwangen in Franken (also in Bavaria).  That translates as "moist cheeks".  Make of that what you will.

Over in North Rhein Westphalian, they have Geilenkirchen, which we can translate as "horny churches".  Sundays might be different there.


As a retirement settlement for old seamen, they might enjoy this village...
"dorf" means village in German, but "wanken" is the verb for to stagger or stumble.

And then there is town of Fickmühlen in Lower Saxony.  "Fick" is the F-word in German and "Mühlen" are mills.  What happens there is best left to braver imaginations than mine. 

And after all this nonsense perhaps a mention for an Austrian town that has its signs nicked all year round