Schwelm (family name)

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Around the first half of the 10th century, the name Schwelm (Swelm also Swelhem, later Schwelhem) is mentioned for the first time when the farmers Salaco and Werinheri of the Werden Abbey in the Schwelmer Fronhof (in uilla Suelmiu) on behalf of the lord, who were subordinate to the Swelmer Fronhof handed over a servant to Swelm. The local aristocrats in the 13th century called themselves Ritter von und zu Swelm (Schwelm). The farm of those of Swelme on the southern edge of the Schwelmer Kalkmulde provided the people with extremely nutritious soil and enough water. After the name was initially transferred to the entire valley, it eventually became the name of a stream, the Schwelme . But even before that, the word “Swelma also Swelmna” had already been changed, because it was originally called “Swelmenaha”. The ending "aha" is old Germanic and means "flowing water". The word part "Swelm" indicates the old settlement. (The flowing water of those at Schwelm)

The family name Schwelm, the more than 500 year old town of Schwelm in Westphalia and the approximately nine kilometers long stream all go back to the names Swelm, Swelmna and Swelhem. According to another interpretation, the Germanic “Svelan” could have been the godfather, which can be translated as “to swell more” as well as “to make waves”. Accordingly, the stream name would have meant “flowing, swelling water”. But this is only a hypothesis and has not been confirmed. After 1449 the village was still written as Swelhem , its master now from Schwelhem and the manor already to Schwelm . And although the von Schwelhem give them shade and services to freeze, it should still be heaped with it when more Unß through common knighthood and Stede our country Cleve and Marck an empire ..

Distribution of the family in the federal territory

See also:

Family tree of the Joseph Franz family

Schwelm is the family name of the following people:

  • Frowin von Swelme (1417–1488), progenitor
  • Johann von Schwelhem zu Schwelm (1441–1498), knight
  • Gottschalk von Schwelhem (1439–1502) councilor in Cologne
  • Johannes Schwelm Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery (1493–1510) in Schönau
  • Christian von Schwelm (1489–1549) councilor in Cologne
  • Hermann von Schwelm (1518–1597) alias Weinsberg , most important German chronicler of the 16th century
  • Gottschalk von Schwelm (1561–1609) knight in the service of Duke Johann Wilhelm
  • Gottschalk von Schwelm (* July 30th, 1586) oo Sibilla geb. Corn green
  • Guilielm von Schwelm (* October 16, 1639)
  • Carl Heinrich Joseph Schwelm oo November 19th, 1776 Helene Wilhelmina born. Siegsberg
  • Johann Joseph Schwelm (January 24th, 1781 - March 28th, 1865)
  • Carl Heinrich Schwelm (August 9, 1810 - May 12, 1852)
  • Carl Wilhelm Schwelm (September 12, 1842 - July 13, 1912)
  • Joseph Franz Schwelm (October 5, 1876 - January 30, 1940)
  • Alfred Schwelm (1906–1968), architect, property developer and inventor
  • Adolfo Schwelm-Cruz (1923–2012), Argentine automobile racing driver

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerd Helbeck :: Timeline of the history of the Schwelm area up to the final elevation of Schwelm to the city. In: . Ed .: Contributions to the local history of the city of Schwelm and its surroundings, 1996, No. 45, 13-17.
  2. ^ Mühlhausen and the mills. Retrieved June 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Gerd Helbeck: "In oppido Swelme". Origin and structure of the small medieval town Schwelm between the 10th century and 1496. In: Contributions to the local history of the town Schwelm and its surroundings . No. 23 , 1973, p. 5-23 .
  4. ^ Johann-Diederich von Steinen: Westphälische Geschichte, Volume 4, Pages 1344-1350 .