Heiligenberg

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Heiligenberg.

Proper noun

Heiligenberg

1. A municipality of Grieskirchen district, Upper Austria, Austria.
2. A commune of the Bas-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France.
3. A municipality and village in Bodensee district, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
4. A mountain in the Odenwald, near Heidelberg, Germany.
5. A mountain in the municipality of Hochspeyer, Kaiserslauten district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
6. A mountain in the municipality of Seeheim-Jugenheim, Darmstadt-Dieburg district, Hesse, Germany.
7. (obsolete) Synonym of Svatý Kopeček, a historical former town in the Czech Republic, nowadays an area of the city of Olomouc.
   • 1865, Samuel Beckley Holabird, Treatise on Grand Military Operations, Or, A Critical and Military History of the Wars of Frederick the Great, as Contrasted with the Modern System‎^[1], volume 1, translation of original by D. Van Nostrand, page 343:

     The morning of the 22d, this reënforcement was thrown into Olmutz between Lodenitz and Heiligenberg. General Saint-Ignon, in order to draw off the attention of the Prussians, appeared as far as Gros-Teinitz.

Synonyms

• Svatý Kopeček

Translations

part of Olomouc — see Svatý Kopeček

German

Alternative forms

• Heiligberg

Etymology

From heilig +‎ Berg.

Proper noun

Heiligenberg n (proper noun, genitive Heiligenbergs or (optionally with an article) Heiligenberg)

1. Heiligenberg (a municipality of Upper Austria, Austria)
2. Heiligenberg (a municipality of Baden-Württemberg, Germany)
3. Heiligenberg (a commune of the Bas-Rhin department, Alsace, Grand Est, France)