Fuer Way
| Fuer Way | |
|---|---|
| Neighborhood | Spring Garden |
| Origin of name | German, 'for'; probably a pun on original Fourth Alley |
| Fourth Alley (until 1924) | |
| Origin of name | Sequential numbering in Havekotte Place plan of lots |
Fuer Way formerly ran east and west from Carrie Street in Reserve Township, about 40 to 120 feet south of Mauch Street, just crossing the city line into Pittsburgh. It was laid out as Fourth Alley in 1901 in the Havekotte Place plan of lots. The alleys in this plan were numbered First through Seventh, but of these only Fourth Alley and Seventh Alley (later Sieben Way) crossed into Spring Garden Borough.[1][2]
Spring Garden Borough was annexed by Pittsburgh in 1920.[3][4][5] In 1924, a city ordinance renamed several streets in the former Spring Garden Borough; Fourth Alley was renamed Fuer Way.[6] The word fuer, or für, is the German word meaning 'for,' which is a homophone of four, so this appears to be a cross-language pun. Many of the early settlers of Spring Garden were German speakers.[7] (The direct German translation of 'four,' vier, may have been rejected because it would have changed the first letter of the name; it was common to preserve the first letter when renaming streets.)
Fuer Way does not exist today.
See also
- Fourth Street, for other streets that have been numbered Fourth
References
- ↑ "Havekotte Place: Situate in Reserve Twp. Allegheny, Co. Pa.: Adjoining the 13th Ward Allegheny and Spring Garden Boro.: Laid out for the Mount Troy Land Company." Laid out May 1901; recorded July 1, 1901, Plan Book 18, pp. 194–195. Allegheny County Recorder of Deeds 3781730. [view source] havekotte-place-plan
- ↑ Real Estate Plat-Book of the Northern Vicinity of Pittsburgh, plate 18. G. M. Hopkins & Co., Philadelphia, 1906. http://historicpittsburgh.org/maps-hopkins/1906-plat-book-northern-pittsburgh. [view source] hopkins-1906
- ↑ "Spring Garden borough votes for annexation." Pittsburg Press, Dec. 10, 1919, p. 19. Newspapers.com 141328224. [view source] spring-garden-borough-votes
- ↑ "Spring Garden votes in favor of annexation." Pittsburgh Gazette Times, Dec. 10, 1919, p. 1. Newspapers.com 86454144. [view source] spring-garden-votes
- ↑ Mark A. Connelly. "Spring Garden Borough–Pittsburgh City 1920 Merger." Local Geohistory Project. https://www.localgeohistory.pro/en/pa/event/spring-garden-borough-pittsburgh-city-1920-merger/. [view source] lgeo-spring-garden-annexation
- ↑ "An ordinance changing the names of certain streets and alleys in the Twenty-sixth Ward (formerly Spring Garden Borough)." Pittsburgh city ordinance, 1924, no. 274. Passed June 9, 1924; approved June 14, 1924. Ordinance Book 35, p. 463. In Municipal Record: Minutes of the Proceedings of the Council of the City of Pittsburgh for the Year 1924, appendix, p. 192, Kaufman Printing Company, Pittsburgh (Internet Archive Pghmunicipalrecord1924). Reprinted in the Pittsburgh Post, June 20, 1924, p. 19 (Newspapers.com 88486598). [view source] ordinance-1924-274
