Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Dobšiná" in English language version.
The name of Dobschau seems to be derived from that of the stream on which the city is found, and which, more than a century before its establishment, already bore the name of Dobsina, which the Slavs pronounce Dobschina. This ending is finding little in the genius of the German language, it has happened that we have pronounced cé and writes only Dobsch, and then Dobschau. But, either by corruption, either by a certain similarity of pronunciation, or finally by other causes We have also pronounced and written Topf, Topfschau, and we have derived this name from the expression Topfschauen (looking at the pot). The arms of the city represented consequently tempt a miner who looks into a pot. We relate to this regard a particular tale: it is said that the former miners having assembled to give a name to the city, had unanimously decided that we would take the word the first miner to leave the mines would say. Soon appeared in the middle from them one of their comrades who knew nothing about the deliberation, and who approached the fireplace, said he had to look at his pot, "er miszte su seinem Topfschauen"; and hence the name of Topfschau. We also believed we could derive this name from the fact that the city being surrounded by very high mountains, it seemed, from their peaks, to be at the bottom of a pot.
