Editing Demmin (section)

=== Name ===
The name may originate from the [[Slavic languages|Slavic]] term ''timänie'' 'swampy area'. Another possible origin for the name ''Demmin'' could be from [[Polabian language|Old Polabian]] ''dym'' (plural: ''dyminy'') 'smoke', referring to clearing land through burning to make settlement possible. In 1075, [[Adam of Bremen]] reported<ref>[[Gesta Hammaburgensis ecclesiae pontificum]]</ref> a fight over the castle at ''Dimine''. In the course of history, the name changed, and sources refer to ''Dymine'' and ''Dimin,'' [[Latinisation of names|Latinized]] to ''Dyminium,'' finally ''Demmyn,'' and since 1320 the town has been known under its present spelling ''Demmin''.

A popular explanation of the name, but without any historical basis, is as follows: two princesses built a castle called ''Haus Demmin'' and promised each other (in the [[Low German]] language spoken in Demmin) ''Dat Hus is din und min'' ('That house is thine [''din''] and mine [''min'']'). Thus the name of the castle and of the city is said to have developed.<ref>[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Name_Demmin Temme, Jodocus Donatus Hubertus. 1840. ''Die Volkssagen von Pommern und Rügen''. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, p. 171.]</ref><ref>Ferrand, Eduard. 1845. "Norddeutsche Volkssagen." In Arthur Müller, ''Moderne Reliquien'', vol. 2, pp. 329–360. Berlin: Adolf Gumprecht, p. 351.</ref><ref>Schmidt, Th. 1865. ''Die Bedeutung der pommerischen Städtenamen: Jubelschrift zur fünf- und zwanzigjährigen Stiftungsfeier der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Schule in Stettin.'' Stettin: A. Rast, p. 9.</ref><ref>Grässe, Johann Georg Theodor. 1871. ''Sagenbuch des preussischen Staats,'' vol. 2. Glogan: Verlag von Carl Flemming, p. 466.</ref><ref>Knoop, D. 1891. "Allerhand Scherz, Neckereien, Reime und Erzählungen über pommersche Orte und ihre Bewohner." ''Baltische Studien'' 41: 99–203, p. 121.</ref><ref>Eichblatt, Hermann: ''Sagen, Volksglaube und Bräuche aus Demmin und Umgebung''. Demmin 1925, chapter 1.</ref>