Schweinsteiger (family name)

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Schweinsteiger is a German family name that, according to a publication by the NDR , comes from 'the' place called Schweinsteig , which is located south of Rosenheim . The name researcher Jürgen Udolph is also quoted in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, although the name researcher naturally knows that there are districts with this name in three different communities south of Rosenheim ( Brannenburg , Oberaudorf , Samerberg ). According to the name researcher and the NDR, the name component 'Steig' comes from the Middle High German word stige , which means stable. The NDR says that it can be assumed that a pigsty played an important role in the history of these districts. However, the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger quotes the researcher in the following sentence, contradictingly, as saying that a Schweinsteiger used to live in the barn with the pigs. This probably means that, according to the researcher, the family name comes from one or more of the southern German places called Schweinsteig and that these place names probably originally come from the name of one or several pig owners who were so called because he or she was among the pigs lived or have lived on a roof.

The name Schweinsteig also occurs as a street name and path name, but there seem to be only very old sources (when name research and even linguistics were not yet a science) that claim these names could be the origin of the family name.

The Upper Bavarian Schweinsteiger family is long-established in the upper Inn Valley in the region around the above-mentioned municipality of Brannenburg; the family name occurs there more often, also on the Austrian side. The ancestors were farmers . According to a publication from 1860, wild boars were still in this area 100 years earlier and "this may be the reason for the family name". In 1494 a Kaspar Schweinsteiger was mentioned in a document as the tenant of the Aich estate near Brannenburg. In 1849, members of the Schweinsteiger family from the Schadhub district of the above-mentioned municipality of Samerberg (to which a municipality called Schweinsteiger also belongs) appeared before the jury court of Upper Bavaria as witnesses in a sensational criminal case because of a robbery committed against Sebastian Schweinsteiger in April 1842 .

Well-known namesake

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b name - the summary of the letter S . NDR.de - NDR 1 Lower Saxony
  2. ↑ a b [1] : The name goes back to the southern German town of Schweinsteig. The "-steig" does not mean "to climb", but refers to the Middle High German "stige" and means the "stable". A Schweinsteiger used to live in the barn with the pigs.
  3. ↑ Ludwig Staub: The Bavarian highlands . Munich 1860, pp. 250-252 ( books.google.de ).
  4. ^ Sebastian Dachauer (ed.): Regesta and documents on Bavarian local, family and regional history . Tenth row: From the formerly Graef. Preysing'schen, now electoral prince. Maria Leopoldine registry of Brannenburg, and from the parish registry of this area . Munich 1846 (= Upper Bavarian Archive for Patriotic History Volume VIII, Issue 1), p. 15 ( books.google.de ).
  5. ^ Negotiations of the jury court of Upper Bavaria . Volume 1, Munich 1849, pp. 386-505 ( books.google.de ).