The Wendish Research Exchange - Mahling, Jan: On the Place Name “Schiebock”.

Lětopis Abstract 2021 2: Jan Mahling: On the Place Name “Schiebock”.

The second name of Schiebock for the town of Bischofswerda was developed in the 20th Century as a playful abbreviation of the real place name, which process can also be demonstrated in relation to other four-syllabled place names in Upper Lusatia. There is no evidence of the influence of Sorbian on the formation of the name Schiebock. There is also no firm historical evidence of a popular etymological derivation of the name from the use of slide blocks, nor of a linguistic derivation from the fictitious Sorbian place name, Přibok. There is no need to claim that there was a Sorbian village of Přibok on the banks of the Wesenitz, and as a result the problem of the handing down of the name, not documented until 1973, disappears. The connection to the slide block, as a subsidiary association, remains in place in the derivation presented, without there being an assumption that there is a connection to particular historical events in the history of the town.