Buch
The coat of arms of Buch, Swabia, shows a beech tree
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Buch (neuter), is the German word for book, but in the names of cities, villages or places it is usually a modification of the German word Buche (feminine; = beech). Many cities and villages carrying Buch, Puch, Pouch or Buoch in their name have a beech tree or beech leaves in their coat of arms.
The Buch (as in book) also goes back to the tree's name, originating from the Old High German buoh which refers to writing tablets made from beech wood.[1]
Buch may refer to:
People
- Buch (surname), a list of people with the surname Buch
Geography
- Germany
- Buch am Wald, a town in the district of Ansbach, Bavaria
- Buch am Buchrain, a town in the district of Erding, Bavaria
- Buch am Erlbach, a town in the district of Landshut, Bavaria
- Buch, Swabia, a town in the district of Neu-Ulm, Bavaria
- Buch, Rhein-Hunsrück, in the Rhein-Hunsrück district, Rhineland-Palatinate
- Buch, Rhein-Lahn, in the Rhein-Lahn district, Rhineland-Palatinate
- Buch, Saxony-Anhalt, a town in the district of Stendal in Saxony-Anhalt
- Buch (Berlin), a locality in Pankow district, Berlin
- Buoch, in the municipality of Remshalden
- Pouch, Germany, a village in Sayony-Anhalt
- Das Buch (de) a mountain near Lindenfels
- Austria
- Buch, Austria, a town in the district of Bregenz in Vorarlberg
- Puch bei Hallein, a municipality in the Hallein District
- Switzerland
- Buch, Schaffhausen, a municipality in the canton of Schaffhausen
- Buch am Irchel, a municipality in the canton of Zurich
- Buch (Wiesendangen), a place in the municipality of Wiesendangen, canton of Zurich
- Buch bei Frauenfeld (until 1953 Buch bei Uesslingen), part of the municipality Uesslingen-Buch, Thurgau
- Buch bei Happerswil (Happerswil-Buch), part of the municipality of Birwinken, Thurgau
- Buch bei Märwil (until 1953 Buch bei Affeltrangen), part of the municipality of Affeltrangen, Thurgau
- Buch bei Mühleberg, part of the municipality of Mühleberg, Canton of Berne
- France
- Buch, Aquitaine, a port and town on Arcachon Bay, the seat of a former lordship
- United States
Astronomy
- Buch (crater), a crater on the moon