What is "neufeld"

Neufeld is a municipality in the district of Dithmarschen, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.

Neufeld is a surname. It refers to: "new field" - first registered among religious Mennonite Christians in the Danzig region, in late 17th century. The "new-fielders" (Neufeld, Neufeldt, etc.) were a people skilled in building drainage and dam systems, to reclaim land from marshes and the low lands, by the seas of northeastern Europe - E.g. Holland, Vistual Delta, etc. It is said that some of them may have had Dutch names, similar in origin, from the Frisian province/region.

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