Restaurants in Germany: So the names are distributed

The village is in Germany, the cellar as well - the pitcher, however, is mainly found in the north, the crown in the south: Shortly before the turn of the year, we showed you how restaurant names are distributed in Germany.

In the article, we also asked you which restaurant names are missing in our evaluation - and for which you are interested. Many readers gave us suggestions, via e-mail or in the forum. Some explained why they are interested in these terms.

Reader Guido Sondern wrote about one of his friends hot cross with surname. "For years, we talk about a hiking / biking along various inns / restaurants cross to stop," wrote Mr. Sondern. "Five are already known to us between Lake Constance and Ulm and now I would be interested in the whole potential extent of our tour."

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Restaurants with cross in the name

We can help here: A look at the map shows that the tour should probably be limited to Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria; beyond that, the stages of our evaluation will be very long if you want to go from cross to cross.

Thorsten Läufer wanted to know how to distribute restaurants with the term Alm. "Probably in addition to the real mountain restaurants / catering establishments, there are also some Bavarian folklore establishments in German cities and large cities", suspected Mr. Läufer. This is how it actually looks - geographically it would not be possible to explain why in Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Frankfurt or Bremen, for example, a similarly high alpine density is to be found as otherwise only in southern Bavaria.

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Restaurants with "Alm" in the name

The evaluation is based on data from the open map project OpenStreetmap (OSM). Similar to Wikipedia, volunteers from around the world collect information for a public map. This is not entitled to absolute correctness - restaurants may be mislabeled or classified. Sometimes they are not noted at all. Therefore, you can also supplement data in OpenStreetMap or correct errors.

We used OpenStreetmap data from January 22 of the OSM map service provider Geofabrik and filtered it for the "Restaurant" marker. Therefore, snacks are not represented in the maps shown. The search explicitly referred to name parts. Under the keyword "anchor", for example, the restaurant Zum Anker is listed as well as the Ankersaal. Some of the terms suggested were low scores, reducing the reliability and validity of the data - for example, because rare names are more important for restaurants that are not or badly scored.

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As in the first evaluation, there were a few curiosities:

• The Bräustüberl is apparently an almost purely Bavarian institution - only three corresponding restaurants can be found outside of the Free State in the maps. Altwirt and Neuwirt are found almost exclusively in southern Bavaria - reader Thomas Huber pointed out these terms.
• The double oak, on the other hand, is a North German (and very rare) phenomenon.
• Speaking of trees, reader Hartmut Domröse was interested in the Green Tree. We do not want to claim that the trees in northern Germany are not green, but there are appropriate places especially in the south of the republic.
• The Eintracht is more likely to find in the southern half of the Republic, but there are rather sparse - in the cards 27 restaurants were noted.
• The Erbgericht is a purely Saxon specialty, as is Kretscham, a local term for a village inn or inn. Reader Gerit Hans Schulze drew our attention to these special names.
• The fact that animal names are particularly popular in Baden-Württemberg was already evident in the first evaluation. Lamm and Rössle now join the stag, lion, ox, swan and eagle - both of which are mostly found in the southwest.
• The fact that wine is grown in Baden can be seen in the accumulation of vineyards in the region.
• No matter where you are traveling in Germany: A farm to stop by should always be found. There are more than 5700 corresponding entries registered in the cards.

Our readers call for restaurant names brought yet another insight: From a soft spot for it can even make a hobby. Reader Fabian Parchmann eventually began cataloging post-restaurants he saw on bike rides and showing them on Instagram. So if you can not get enough of the post, please go this way.

And if you want to see the distribution of restaurant names from the first article again, you will find them here - from Adler to Wirt:

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