Schröfl

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Schröfl is a German family name. Several interpretations are possible for the origin of the name Schröfl.

origin

Derivation of schrefeln (crushing)

  • schrefln: gnaw, scratch, scratch, make incisions
  • Schrêfl, Schrêfile: Kleinholz
  • Schröffl: log made of soft wood

Etymology :

    • Indo-European * (s) kerb (h) -, * (s) kreb (h) -: an extension to * (s) ker-: cut
    • Middle High German (1050–1350 hatch, hatch, schrëven, tear, scratch, scratch)
    • Early New High German : in the 15th century with a sharpened consonant: scraping, cupping 'tearing, scratching, letting the vein' (originally by scratching the skin with a lancet), a subject-specific narrowing of meaning that is still known today.

Naming motif

  1. Schrefl as someone who splits wood into Schrefln well or professionally.
  2. metaphorically: someone was referred to as Schrefl 'Kleinholz'

Names of places and waters (toponymic starting point):

  • The field names Schröflwald and the water body name Schröflbach are certainly related to each other in terms of location and naming motifs (more efficient orientation)

Farm name (chorionymic starting point):

  • The motive would be that this splitting of the wood takes place in Schrefln or something similar there.

Names

  • Finsterwalder (1990) shows Schreffl and Schreffler as Tyrolean family names, whereby he chooses the etymological approach schrefeln = 'split up failure' or 'cut herbs' and metaphorically 'chat'. With Scheiter and Kraut we have a typical context for the central verb. Similar with Gottschald: Schröflbauer: zu bayer. 'Cutting herbs' (cf. Gottschald 1942). The verb is also contained in Schmeller's Bavarian dictionary (cf. Schmeller 1877):

Derived from Schrofen (= rugged, sharp rock)

. Noun or the Schroffen Schrofen ., Adj rugged; rugged, steep ascending or descending '; the adj. rugged is a regression (around 1500) from rugged 'rock cliff, fissured rock'

Etymology :

Naming motif '

    • Court name (chorionymic starting point): court next to a small stone rubble as a Schrefl- or Schröfl-Hube (location determination) to mhd. Rugged and sharp, each with regularly comprehensible sound development. The person who lives there would then be Schrefl or Schröfl

Names of places and waters (toponymic starting point):

  • Schröflwald and Schröflbach in a rugged terrain covered with stone rubble.

Names:

  • Schroff: toponym in Middle High German craggy, rugged 'rough, fissured rock'

From this names: Schraft, Schrofner, Schröffl, Schruff; Schräfle, Schrauf, Schrüffer, Schroffenegger (cf. Heintze-Cascorbi 1933, 432) and similar again in Gottschald: Schröffl u. a. on 'rock face' (cf. Gottschald 1942, 425)

Further family and field names

Tyrol: Schreffl, Schreffler; Carinthia: Schrefelhof; Vorarlberg: Schröfle; Upper Austria: Schrofler

Spellings

  • Variants of the family name Schröfl :

instead of ö: e or ie; instead of f: ff; instead of fl: fel

Geographical distribution of the family name

The name Schröfl was originally found in four areas: the upper Ennstal (later in Steyr), the Salzkammergut, the Waldviertel and the area south of Munich.

Today the name Schröfl is still common in the Ennstal and the surrounding area of ​​Munich. Descendants of several original families live in Vienna and the Vienna Basin. Likewise in Graz and some places in Styria, Salzburg and Upper Austria. In Steyr, where the Schröfl became very prosperous, the name can no longer be found today.

More is known about the Schröfl families in the Munich area. Genealogy has shown that Schröfl was already resident in Possenhofen (on Lake Starnberg) in the 18th century. The family tree probably branched out from here, so that today there are several families with this surname. Around 1910 the Schröfl moved from Possenhofen a few kilometers further into the Würmtal, namely to the village of Krailling.

The first mention in Austria (around 1400, Urbar d. Herrschaft Haus) of the name Schröfl is a Schröfl-Hube in Gatschberg at the confluence of the Sölktäler in the Ennstal. A resident of this Hube, Thoman, was first called Schröffler, later Schröffl, in 1541. This family name was later transferred to several other farms in the area. The family spread in the upper Ennstal, one branch was expelled to Steyr in the Counter Reformation in 1599.

The oldest mention of the name in Bavaria is 1494 in Fronloh (Michl Schröfl).

Name bearer

literature

  • Anton von Pantz : The trades under the spell of the Styrian Erzberg . Vienna 1918
  • Wolfgang Sittig: The Schröffl in the Gröbming parish - a peasant family in the time of religious struggles . Journal of the historical association for Styria, XLVI. Born in 1955
  • Franz Hollwöger: The Schröffl in the Ausseerland . (Ausseer Land, edition of July 11, 1964)

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