Can you determine by a city name where this town is located?

           Not always.  But the list below shows which you CAN pinpoint in East Prussia.

                  ....pönen                            East Prussia only

                  ....lauken                             East Prussia only

                  ....wethen                            East Prussia only

                  ....ningken                          East Prussia only

                   ....kuhnen                           East Prussia only

                   ....girren                             East Prussia only

                   ....nehlen                            East Prussia only

                   ....lacken                            mostly East Prussia, 4 in Pommerania, 4 in Silesia

                 Sz....                                    East Prussia only.

                                         Name changes  for  Kreise/Counties.

  With an announcement:

  Im Ministerialblatt des Reichs-und Preussischen Ministerium des Innern ( Nr. 40 vom 28.9.38)

  the following name changes took place:

                                  Pillkallen     became   Schlossberg

                                  Fischhausen               Samland

                                  Niederung                 Elchniederung

                                                                   Rosenberg

                                  Reppen                     Weststernberg

                                  Stallupönen              Ebenrode       

                                  Darkehmen               Angerapp

                                  Persante                    Belgard

    The date of July 16, 1938 was the deadline in the “final” push to germanize all foreign sounding townnames.   If you encounter a townname with 1938 attached to it, this would have been the date when it took place.