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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
It's probably widespread because "Damm" means something like "causeway" hence the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin (according to a history I read of the city). There was also an airfield at Jüterbog-Damm but that's in the former East Germany, so no good to Steve.
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Yep, "causeway" is one of the principal translations; also: dam, dike, dyke, embankment, mole, pier. "Dammweg" also means causeway. So the little village could have been astride a raised earthen path or causeway/embankment in an otherwise marshy area that was made for the passage of people, carts, troops, etc., many centuries ago. There is a narrow stream running north-south just 100 to 200 meters to the east of the village of Damm and another in the same north-south direction about 1 kilometer west of the village. So it could have also been named after a dam, I'd guess. Damm sits on the southern edge of the heavily wooded Forst Wesel, so eactly where this ALG was supposed to be is something of a mystery. The only open land is south of Damm across Route 58.