Hof is a Germanic word found in German, Dutch, Old Norse, and Old English among others, designating a "courtyard, farmyard, royal court, hall, yard or garden". Technical meanings include: * Heathen hof, a type of Old Norse temple *''Bauernhof, Maierhof'', types of

Family farm A family farm is generally understood to be a farm owned and/or operated by a family; it is sometimes considered to be an Estate (land), estate passed down by inheritance. Although a recurring conceptual model, conceptual and archetype, archet ...

Places

It is very a common element in German, Dutch and Scandinavian place names, such as

Hofgeismar Hofgeismar () is a town in the Kassel (district), district of Kassel, in northern Hesse, Germany. It is located 25 km north of Kassel on the German Timber-Frame Road. In 1978 and in 2015, the town hosted the 18th ''Hessentag'' state festival. ...

or Tempelhof. By itself it may refer to the following places:

Austria

* Hof, Upper Austria, see

Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck Sankt Marienkirchen am Hausruck is a municipality in the district of Ried im Innkreis (district), Ried im Innkreis in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. Geography Sankt Marienkirchen lies in the Innviertel. About 18 percent of the municipality i ...

Hof bei Salzburg Hof bei Salzburg is a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg in Austria. The mezzo-soprano Rosl Zapf (1925–2019) was born in Hof bei Salzburg. Geography Hof bei Salzburg is on the shore of the Fuschlsee ...

, a municipality in the district of Salzburg-Umgebung in the state of Salzburg *

Hof am Leithaberge Hof am Leithaberge is a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in Lower Austria in Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern ...

, a town in the district of Bruck an der Leitha in the state of Lower Austria *

Hof bei Straden Hof bei Straden is a former municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in Austrian state of Styria. Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it is part of the municipality Straden Straden is a municipality in the district of Sü ...

, a former municipality in the district of Südoststeiermark in the state of Styria

Czech Republic

Hof in Mähren Hof is a Germanic word found in German, Dutch, Old Norse, and Old English among others, designating a "courtyard, farmyard, royal court, hall, yard or garden". Technical meanings include: *Heathen hof, a type of Old Norse temple *''Bauernhof, Mai ...

, the former Austrian and German name for the municipality of Dvorce in the Bruntál District in the Moravian-Silesian Region

Germany

Hof (district) Hof () is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the south and clockwise) the districts of Wunsiedel, Bayreuth, Kulmbach and Kronach, the states of Thuringia (district of Saale-Orla) and Saxony (district of Vogtland ...

, a Landkreis (district) in Bavaria **

Hof, Bavaria Hof () is a town on the banks of the Saale in the northeastern corner of the Germany, German state of Bavaria, in the Franconian region, at the Czech Republic, Czech border and the forested Fichtelgebirge and Frankenwald upland regions. The town h ...

, a town in the Hof district of Bavaria **

Hof (electoral district) Hof is an electoral constituency (German: ''Wahlkreis'') represented in the Bundestag. It elects one member via first-past-the-post voting. Under the current constituency numbering system, it is designated as constituency 239. It is located in nort ...

, an electoral district comprising the town of Hof and the districts of Hof and Wunsiedel *

Hof, Rhineland-Palatinate Hof is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a community belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'' – in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The community lies in the Westerwald between Limburg and Siegen on the boundary with North Rhine ...

, a village in the Westerwaldkreis in Rhineland-Palatinate

Iceland

* Heathen hof, a type of Old Norse temple * Hof, Iceland, a small village in the municipality of Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður

Netherlands

Hof van Delft Hof van Delft ("Court of Delft") is a former municipality in the Netherlands, Dutch province of South Holland. It was located to the west of the city of Delft, and covered the villages of Den Hoorn (South Holland), Den Hoorn, Abtswoude, and 't Woud ...

, a former municipality west of Delft, South Holland *

Hof van Holland The Hof van Holland, Zeeland en West-Friesland (; usually shortened to Hof van Holland in the literature, and translated in English literature as "(High) Court of Holland") was the High Court of the provinces of Holland, West Friesland and Zeeland ...

, High Court of the provinces of Holland and Zeeland 1428–1811 *

Hof van Savoye The Hof van Savoye (Court of Savoy) or Palace of Margaret of Austria is an early 16th-century building in Mechelen, Belgium. It was one of the first Renaissance buildings in Northern Europe. Archduchess Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Neth ...

, Palace of Margaret of Austria in Mechelen, Antwerp * Hof van Twente, a municipality in Twente, Overijssel

Norway

Hof, Åsnes Hof is a village in Åsnes Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on the west shore of the river Glomma, about south of the village of Flisa. The village sits in a fairly flat agricultural area. Hof is also a parish with ...

, a village in Åsnes municipality in Innlandet county *

Hof, Innlandet Hof is a former municipality in the old Hedmark county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until 1963 when it was merged into Åsnes Municipality. In 1963 when it was dissolved, the municipality encompassed . The administrative centre wa ...

, a former municipality in the old Hedmark county *

Hof, Vestfold Hof is a former municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It merged into Holmestrand on Jan. 1, 2018. The administrative centre of the former municipality was the village of Hof. The municipality of Hof was established on 1 January 1838 (see for ...

, a former municipality in the old Vestfold county **

Hof Prison Hof Prison ( no, Hof fengsel) was a prison in Hof in Vestfold og Telemark, Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost ...

, a prison in Holmestrand municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county

People

Hof (surname) Hof is a Dutch and German toponymic surname.Hof
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, a Dutch and German surname

Buildings

Hof Ásatrúarfélagsins Hof Ásatrúarfélagsins is a religious building under construction in Reykjavík, Iceland. When finished it will be used by the Heathen organization Ásatrúarfélagið for religious ceremonies, concerts, exhibitions and administrative work. It ...

, temple in Reykjavík, Iceland *

Hofburg The Hofburg is the former principal imperial palace of the Habsburg dynasty. Located in the centre of Vienna, it was built in the 13th century and expanded several times afterwards. It also served as the imperial winter residence, as Schönbrunn ...

, the imperial palace in Vienna

Acronym

HOf gauge H0f gauge (or H0i gauge) is a rail transport modelling scale representing Feldbahn-style 2 ft and 600 mm gauge railways using 1:87 HO scale running on Z gauge track. The ' NEM 010 specification defines H0f for modelling gauges , as part of the 1: ...

, 1:87 rail modelling using 6.5 mm track. *

Hall of fame A hall, wall, or walk of fame is a list of individuals, achievements, or other entities, usually chosen by a group of electors, to mark their excellence or Wiktionary:fame, fame in their field. In some cases, these halls of fame consist of actu ...

High on Fire High on Fire is an American heavy metal band from Oakland, California, that was formed in 1999. Matt Pike, the band's frontman and founder, also plays guitar for doom metal band Sleep. High on Fire won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Metal Per ...

, an American band *

Higher-order function In mathematics and computer science, a higher-order function (HOF) is a function that does at least one of the following: * takes one or more functions as arguments (i.e. a procedural parameter, which is a parameter of a procedure that is itself ...

Horton overland flow In soil science, Horton overland flow describes the tendency of water to flow horizontally across land surfaces when rainfall has exceeded infiltration capacity and depression storage capacity. It is named after Robert E. Horton, the engineer who ...

House of Fraser House of Fraser (also operating as Frasers) is a British department store group with 44 locations across the United Kingdom, which is now part of Frasers Group. It was established in Glasgow, Scotland in 1849 as Arthur and Fraser. By 1891, it w ...

, a British department store * Huisman-Olff-Fresco models * Hypofluorous acid *

RPC-TV RPC-TV is a television network, and is headquartered in Panama City, Panama Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part ...

, formerly HOF-TV, a Panamanian television network