Poggensee (family name)

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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

  1. ^ Günther Bock: Church and Society - From the history of the parish Sülfeld 1207 to 1648 , 2006.
  2. fh-kiel.de