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Höbelt is a very rare family name that occurs mainly in Germany.

origin

The majority of the people named Höbelt (some also spelled Hoebelt or Hebelt ) living today (around 200 in 2005) were examined for their origin on the basis of private documents, civil status registers and many other files. It turned out that in almost all families the trail leads to the Bohemian-Saxon Eastern Ore Mountains and its immediate foreland after just a few generations. In the middle of the 17th century, the deposits are concentrated in a small "home" in the headwaters of the Flöha , especially in the places Fleyh , Willersdorf, Georgendorf and Motzdorf in the former manor Dux (now the Czech Republic). Many branches of the Höbelts can be grouped into tribes without any family relationships up to a common "forefather Höbelt" being proven for them from the written sources. Already during and after the Thirty Years' War there were emigration of individuals and entire families named Höbelt to the surrounding area, initially probably due to direct consequences of the war, later also religious migrations between (again) Catholic Bohemia and Protestant Saxony. Increased emigration of name bearers and the like a. to Saxony and Prussia and to various regions of the great Habsburg monarchy then took place again in the period of industrialization in the 19th century.

The name is traced back to the Old High German nickname hugu-bald , from which the family name Haubold was later derived. The family name Haubold , which is very common in contrast to Höbelt , still appears particularly frequently in the Saxon Eastern Ore Mountains. However, in the second half of the 17th century, one and the same person in the area around Fleyh was simultaneously referred to as Höbelt, Hebelt and even Hegewald. Historically verifiable evidence became increasingly rare during the Thirty Years War and dried up almost entirely at the end of the 16th century.

Name bearer

Lothar Höbelt (* 1956), Austrian historian and associate professor for modern history at the University of Vienna

Medardus Höbelt (1914–2011), German musician, painter and church interior designer

swell

Bahlow: German Name Lexicon, 1988
Günter Kallinovsky, 2002: The villages of the parish Fleyh 1650–1670
Protestant church registers (Saxony, in the responsible parish offices): Cämmerswalde, Kienhaid
Catholic church records (Czech Republic, ČR - Státní oblastní archiv v Litoměřicích, Krajská 48/1, 412 01 Litoměřice): Bilin, Brüx, Dux, Fleyh, Gablonz, Georgendorf, Hareth, Holtschitz, Kommern, Ladowitz, Langewiese, Loosch, Maria-Ratschitz , Moldau, Motzdorf, Niedergeorgenthal, Niklasberg, Obergeorgenthal, Oberleutensdorf, Ossegg, Pollerad, Sadschitz, Schwatz, Selletitz, Turn, Weberschan, Welbuditz, Willersdorf, Wohontsch, Wurzmes
Telephone and address directories worldwide (1995-2016)
Court books of the Dux and Liebshausen domains (Czech Republic, ČR - Státní oblastní archiv v Litoměřicích, Krajská 48/1, 412 01 Litoměřice)
Saxon Main State Archive Dresden: Bergmannsche Exulantensammlung u. a.