Halbach (family name)

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Halbach is a German family name .

origin

The name appears in the Bergisches Land in 1424, when a Hans Halbicker donated the 5th Vicarie in Lennep . Documents from the following years testify that the farm is subject to wax interest . From around 1580 a complete record of the family "auf der Halbach" is possible. Before the Thirty Years' War , "die Halbach" belonged to four brothers, after that one Jan Lennartz (Johann, Leonhard's son, there is no evidence of family history, but probably) and two brothers Matthias (Theiss) and Johannes, both sons of Merten Rawesmüller, who Heir's daughter Clara married and took the name of the farm.

Whether they really came from Franconia , as a source says, and whether they descended from the Regensburg patricians , has not yet been proven. If you believe this source, they came to Cologne in the 15th century , where they were accepted into the city council and acquired properties with iron works in the Duchy of Berg and in the County of Mark . A wedding between Magdalena Halbach and Francis J. Pohlmann that took place in Nuremberg in 1486 would also fit in with this.

In Cologne, too, there was a half-axle very early on, e.g. B. Gertrudis was baptized on January 21, 1633 in Cologne. During the religious turmoil at the end of the 15th century, they are said to have been expelled from Cologne and settled on their estates in Bergisch.

But it is also conceivable that they came from the Eifel , because the Halbacher Wildhof - located between Herschbach and Kaltenborn on the “rivulus hallebachus” and mentioned in a document in 962, housed Halbachs 500 years earlier.

distribution

Most of the half-axes found in Bergisch today are descended from the two brothers mentioned above. From Johannes come u. a. the lines of the Krupp family from Bohlen and Halbach .

Further lines in Remscheid , Solingen and today's Wuppertal are already at the beginning of the church records (church records in Lüttringhausen received from 1670), a relationship to the above. Brothers is likely, but undetectable. The traditional family-run company Halbach Seidenband GmbH still has its headquarters including its own ribbon weaving mill in Lüttringhausen. It was founded there in 1933 by Richard Friedrich Hermann Halbach.

The Halbachs from Lind, Herschbach, Wehr or other small Eifel towns originate from the farm in the Eifel (probably, but not verifiable). Two pairs of brothers, from Lind and from Wehr, emigrated to the USA in the 19th century. Most of the present-day Halbachs resident in the USA - especially in Wisconsin - descend from these pairs of brothers or from an Arnold Halbach who was born in Solingen in 1799 and who also emigrated.

There is also a Halbach brook southwest of Vienna and a small town called "Le Halbach" in Alsace . Neither to the Swedish Halbacks nor to the Siegerland Helbecks are recognizable. The assignment of all previously registered name bearers was not yet possible.

Name bearer

For members of the noble family von Bohlen and Halbach (noble family) see there.

See also