Rexrodt
Rexrodt is a German family name . The name bearers come from a Hessian - Thuringian family. The spelling of the name is also: Rexroth , Rexrode, Reckrodt, Rixrath.
origin
The name is derived from a place name near Schwebda / Werra, which was called Reystras or Reystrade in 1337 (see Reckrodt ) and was called Rexraide (= Rexrode) in the 15th century. The name has been retained in the nearby field names "Rexrode" and Rexerode / Rexerodt ". Above Rexrode there is a younger settlement, which has been preserved in the field names Rex-Rod or the rexrots. According to Karl Rexrodt, the place is near Schwebda "Founding site of the Reckrodt knight family , from which the Rexrodt family emerged": At Schwebda, a knight von Reckrodt, who held the office of Rotenburg / Fulda and also called himself a knight of Rotenburg, and a citizen of Eschweg owned an annual gradient 1337 the monastery Heydau (Landau`s desert localities).
distribution
While the noble von Reckrodt family was mentioned in a document as early as 1253, the middle-class family can only be identified from 1449 with Ditmar Rexrode , who is in Eschwege / Werra. In Eschwege, the family provided council members, Augustinians and gunsmiths. The most numerous of the family appeared from around 1480 as mayors, council members and church elders in Wanfried / Werra. The branch of the family called Rexroth (Erbach-Michelstädter line) begins in Erbach / Odenwald in 1645 with master blacksmith Johann Barthel Rexerod , and comes from the Wanfrieder family. Many Rexrodt have emigrated, especially according to the Bremen and Hamburg passenger lists, mostly to America, and write Reckrodt, Reckrod, Rexrode, Rexroat and de Rixrath or Rixrath (Argentina) there.
People and meaning
The best-known namesake are the state economist Georg Rexerodt , from 1902 to 1918 first managing director of the newly founded Kurhessische Landbank eG, the Federal Minister of Economics Dr. Günter Rexrodt , (his father) Dr. Wilhelm Rexrodt (Reich Director of the DDP) and the book author Annette Rexrodt von Fircks .
coat of arms
The coat of arms that is widespread in the middle-class Rexrodt family and carried by the Eschweg family is essentially the same as that of the von Reckrodt knight family . The coat of arms is preserved in the book of revelations of the noble St. Kilians brothers of the Würzburg cathedral monastery, sheet 25.
literature
- Karl Rexrodt: Chronicle of the Rexrodt family in Wanfried / Werra from 1375 and 1500–1936. Mühlhausen in Thuringia 1937
- Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem (Hrsg.): Hessische Flurnamen
- Georg Landau: Historical-topographical description of the desolate localities in the Electorate of Hesse and in the Grand-Ducal Hessian parts of Hessengaue, Oberlahngaue and Ittergaue. Kassel, 1858
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Reimer: Historical local dictionary
- ↑ Rexerode, Werra-Meissner. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. (As of February 17, 2014). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).