Originally this name designated the entire district extending from the street Langgarten, outside the city fortifications. Only subsequently did the name pass to the well-known street. After the war the street was called ul. Rudnicka for some time (a name imported from Kraków with absolutely no connection to Danzig), before being renamed in the early 1950s, together with Langgarten, to ul. Elbląska. The origin of the designations Kneiphof and Kneipab, which occur from Amrum to Königsberg, is disputed. W. Stephan assumes an extremely unlikely multiple adoption of the expression from various foreign languages into German. Neumann, on the other hand, derives it from the Slavic gnębie (to press under water) and/or the Prussian knieipe (to scoop). How these designations could have reached Amrum, however, neither of them explains. Since in all cases the places so named always involve swampy areas threatened by flooding, the designation 'Kneipab' could mean something like "pinched off" in the sense of "wrested from the water."

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