sentences:  For a while, to distinguish the village from others with the same name, the form "Sien-Hoppstädten" was customary.According to researchers Dolch and Greule, among others, the village's name goes back to the Middle High German word "hovestat", which simply meant “estate”.Its two syllables correspond with the Modern High German words "Hof" (“estate” or “farm”) and "Stätte" (“place” or “stead”).