Poggensee (family name)
Poggensee is a north German family name .
Origin and meaning
The family name Poggensee is based on the place name or part name Poggensee, which occurs twice in Schleswig-Holstein.
One municipality is located in the Sandesneben-Nusse office between Mölln and Ratzeburg, the second occurrence is a district of Bad Oldesloe, but used to be an independent place.
The name is based on the place name or part name Poggensee, which occurs twice in Schleswig-Holstein.
A municipality is located in the Sandesneben-Nusse office between Mölln and Ratzeburg in the Duchy of Lauenburg district in Schleswig-Holstein, east of Hamburg . , the second occurrence is a district of Bad Oldesloe, but used to be an independent place.
According to popular explanation, the name is composed
- from pogge = Middle Low German "frog" and
- seo / see = Old High German / Middle High German "waters".
According to the Bad Oldesloe town archive, however, the name is
- from Po = Slavic "am, bei" and
- kanitze = Habichtswald originated and became in 1263 as
"Po kense" is called for the first time and therefore means "Am Habichtswald".
The old spellings were in the office Sandesneben-Nusse 1230 Pokense, 1376 Poggenze; in Bad Oldesloe 1294 Pogense, 1380 Pogghenzee, 1650 Poggensehe.
As a family name, it was used for someone who comes from one of these places or at least had close connections there.
The name genre is a place name or a name after the place of residence and is mainly used in this spelling in Schleswig-Holstein.
Appearance of the family name as early as 1492 as Clawes Poggentzee, operator of a glassworks in Sievershütten, who was probably related to the founder of a silver communion chalice in the Sülfeld church. The inscription reads: "1521 DO GAV HANS POGGHENSE DE GLAZEWERDER DVSSEN KELCH".
distribution
Measured by the German telephone directory of December 31, 2002, Poggensee is a normally common family name in Germany (253 telephone directory entries). Most of these namesake live in Hamburg , followed by Segeberg and Stormarn. This accumulation is an indication of the origin of the surname. But the name can also be found very often in the USA.
Well-known namesake
- Karl Poggensee , German rocket engineer
- Renate Poggensee, singer ( Renate Kern , Nancy Wood)
- Kay Poggensee, German university professor
Individual evidence
- ^ Günther Bock: Church and Society - From the history of the parish Sülfeld 1207 to 1648 , 2006.
- ↑ fh-kiel.de