German town name

I'm creating a fictitious German town for my novel to be set, I have a name, which is awful, and I want some ideas for what to call it. Can anyone help?

 

do you need the name to convey the character of the town/townspeople?...

if not, just pull up a google map of germany and pick a name, any name... you can change it a tad to avoid angering the real place's inhabitants, if you think that necessary... as in:

leipzig/zeipzig
koblenz/doblenz
eisenach/weisenach

 

how about german-town, there is a town near my hometown called German-Town.

 

Find a word in German you like, then find a word that describes a location castle/meadow/lake/mine etc. in German and combine the 2 to 1 word.

 

Town name generator is a go!

http://donjon.bin.sh/fantasy/name/#german_town

 

Thanks guys, this has helped. I started by taking a German place name and changing it a little; at first it was Kuhr, but I realised I hated it. It's currently Zweiberg, but I'm not sure about that either!

 

I'd choose Feldkirchen if what you're thinking of is a small rural town. It translates to something like "church on the field" and is quite common in Germany as well as in Austria.

 

I quite like that, thanks!!