Help needed pls to locate Otelberg

[JustinL]

Can anyone pls help me (and nessieinspain aka Emma) locate the birth place recorded below on the first line of this extract from the 1901 census?

It seems to read Otelberg, but there is no place of that name in modern Germany (Not that I can find anyway.) It may well have been in one of the former provinces in the east, i.e. Posen, Silesia (Schlesien) or East Prussia.

Many thanks,

Justin

[The Geneal Geologist]

Best suggestion I can make is "Hochberg" which does exist.

Good luck!

Mark

[stanmapstone]

I would think Helberg 51647 Gummersbach, Germany 

Stan

[JustinL]

Thanks for the suggestions.

I'm really not certain that the first letter is an H. Here's a few more words beginning with H from the same page.

Justin

[The Geneal Geologist]

If you insist on starting with O (and I accept your argument), how about Ottenberg?

[BumbleB]

I'm afraid I'm going to throw a spanner in the works because I don't think that the end of the word is "berg"!  I can't see another "b" on the snippets posted, but to me it doesn't look like a "b", I would say it was an "h", which doesn't really help too much!!  If you tell me either the reference for the page, or the name, I'll have a look at it on Ancestry.  I was a secretary in a previous life, and worked for general practitioners, so hand-writing played a big part!!

BumbleB

[The Geneal Geologist]

Looks like we have to imagine ourselves as a cockney enumerator writing down what he thought he heard in a German accent.....once Bumble B has encrypted the handwriting. Hopefully there isn't an "H" dropped before the O!!
(BTW, I forgot to mention Ottenberg is in Bavaria, which perhaps can come across as Otelberg?)

[stanmapstone]

Reuben Rottstein
RG13; Piece: 322; Folio: 96; Page: 31

Stan

[BumbleB]

Hi:  I found the page, and to me it definitely looks like Otelherg as the letter shapes match others on the page, but then that place doesn't exist, does it (I tried it on Via Michelin)?  I think Mark could be right, that it is an interpretation by a Londoner of a German accent!!  Sorry I couldn't be more help than that.  Perhaps you could try to find a German and get him to say the place name.

BumbleB