I never had a reason to care about Halloween, and nowadays real world news are more scary than any imagined horrors. Yet I remembered one of my old trips so why not mention that curious fact.
There’s a town somewhere between Frankfurt and Frankfurt-lowcost airports named Oppenheim. People coming from there are obviously known as Oppenheimer, as well as their descendants and people marrying their descendants like the famous Lillian Oppenheimer (I know her as the person who popularised origami but apparently she’s a mother of several well-known mathematicians as well) and some guy claiming to become death, destroyer of the worlds.
But the town itself is more sinister, even if you disregard its catacombs. There’s Frankensteiner Hof—or residence of Frankenstein (maybe the descendant moved to Bavaria and got famous there). As for real monsters, just around the corner from the previous landmark they have a street named simply Zuckerberg—no suffixes for street or alley at all, just Zuckerberg.
It’s much better on the other side of Hessen—in Bavarian Miltenberg they have plainly named Hauptstraße (meaning simply “main street”) and parallel to it runs Mainstraße, specially for the foreigners who don’t understand German.