Spitzner

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Spitzner is a German family name .

Origin and meaning

The name Spitzner is a residence name and was derived from - (n) he originally "someone who settled on a tapering terrain (to mhd. Tip, tip, pointed end, headland ')". The family name has been documented in Upper Palatinate / Bavaria since 1383, in Vogtland / Saxony since 1531 and in Görlitz / Upper Lusatia since 1547. The document from 1383 can be found in a document from the archive of the former Benedictine monastery Kastl and has the following wording:

"I albreth Spizner at the time purger ze vilseck and my landlady weknnen open corpses with the award that everyone who sees or hears read that we have been right and honest to sell and have chauffeured also give our good that there is ze pesenriht Heinrich the sneider ze pesenriht and his eleichen landlady and all irish heirs four chens and five pfening and a fasnahthun umb on sehs pfenning zehen schilling pfening of the statwerung ze vilseck, who we have become with the weschaeden because we are in schools virtigenous incumbents valid alz of all valid and interest law is on geuerd. and on all ir scheden and dec have been chauflewt di have done the chauf, Ruger the Henel, and ulrich the brisk. At the time purger ze vilseck and Chunrad the Chinhofer sat ze Chinhof and dez ze certificate I give the above-mentioned Albrech Spizner for myself and for my landlady the open prief sealed with my aigen island that I hung on to it, always hold it and volfüren waz written on the certificate. the award was given to one hundred and thirteen hundred crists and then in the drew and eightieth Jar dez michens in the week of Pentecost ”.

In the Saxon Vogtland the family name is still unknown around 1460. It was not found until 1531 in the Turkish tax lists for the villages of Hohengrün, Rützengrün ("wolff spitzners knecht") and Wernesgrün, as well as in movied form for Zwickau ("Mertten Spitznerin"). A direct genealogical connection is therefore assumed between the older Upper Palatinate and the later, more frequent Vogtland occurrence of the family name Spitzner, which was triggered by the emigration of a Spitzner from the Upper Palatinate. The older explanatory approach, according to which a chamois emperor Karl V with the first name Balthasar from Tyrol immigrated to the Vogtland, there filed his previous surname Rung (Ring) and adopted the name Spitzner and changed his confession , is no longer used by the more recent family research represented.

The early namesake in Vogtland initially only included dependent farmers , miners , wire-pullers , carters , millers , soot dealers and blacksmiths (in Raschau near Oelsnitz / Vogtl. Since the 17th century), but also increasingly from the end of the 16th century Doctors , Evangelical Lutheran clergy (in Auerbach as early as 1594), merchants , teachers , judges and - from around 1700 - administrative officials .

distribution

In the 16th century, the Spitzner family's Vogtland region was clearly the manageable geographic area formed by Rützengrün (1531), Wernesgrün (1531), Hohengrün (1531), Auerbach (1543), Rodewisch (1594) and Rothenkirchen (1595) . Secure genealogical information is known for Auerbach from 1564.

Excerpt from the Turkish tax list for Rützengrün from 1551, pertaining to Gregor Spitzner and his cousin Wolff Spitzner

From the Vogtland, where the bearers of the name Spitzner have been Evangelical-Lutheran since the Reformation , the family name initially spread to the central Ore Mountains , in individual instances in the 17th and 18th centuries to cities in the Electorate of Saxony and from there in the 19th Century after the Mark Brandenburg . Among other things, the Delitzsch line, which was soon extinguished again, was created by the town councilor Johann Balthasar Spitzner (1637–1703), the “Prussian” or Ruhlander line of the lawyer Vollrath Friedrich Gotthold Spitzner (1711–1829) and the “Saxon” or Dresden line the chief accountant Adolph Friedrich Esaias Spitzner (1768–1841). For the judgmental statement that the bearers of the surname identified in Prague and Vienna before the First World War were “real Spitzner only in individual cases” and that the other bearers of the name “came from a person” who “took the name at the beginning of the 19th . Century in Bohemia without family rights ”, no source is known.

In the further course of the 19th century, the genealogical relationships and areas of distribution become increasingly confusing. According to cautious estimates, around 3,000 descendants were added to the Vogtland family after 1800.

In the 1930s the family name was still to be found "very often in the Ore Mountains and Vogtlande", "occasionally" but also "in Dresden, Chemnitz, Leipzig and some other cities, mostly due to immigration". If the address book for Berlin contained only two entries in 1878 and four in 1900, 13 people were taken into account in 1933. In Dresden, on the other hand, the number of relevant address book entries increased to nine in the same year. The telephone address book for the German Reich of 1942 takes into account 58 connections that are approved for the Spitzner name , including 7 in Leipzig, 6 in Berlin and 5 in Auerbach.

In the regions of Saxony, the geographical distribution focuses are still clearly. The most common percentage occurrences of the Spitzner surname are found today

The occurrences of the name outside of the German-speaking area, especially in Argentina , Brazil , Denmark , France , Canada , the Ukraine , South Africa and the USA are due to migration. In contrast, the name Spitzner Kornigl for a mountain in South Tyrol is derived from an alpine pasture called Spitzen .

variants

The following spelling variants of the surname are known from genealogical sources:

  • Spizner (1383), Spietzner (1542), Spietzener (1593), Spitznern (1659); Movement: Spitznerin (1531); Latinization : Spitznerus, Spiznerus

Coat of arms and seal

Already in 1383 the citizen Albrecht Spitzner had an "aignen island" in Vilseck , but nothing more has been passed on about this. In parts of the Vogtland family from the second half of the 17th century up to the present day, a coat of arms and corresponding seals have been used with certain variations .

Coat of arms of the Dresden councilor Andreas Spitzner 1673

Common to the various coats of arms in the blue field as a common figure is a white unicorn, usually jumping up over several rock peaks to the right or to the left . Probably the oldest Spitzner coat of arms from 1669 is known from Chemnitz . A coat of arms from 1673 has come down to us from the Dresden councilor and later councilor Andreas Spitzner (1645–1693), who came from Auerbach. It shows “a white unicorn jumping up over three rock peaks rising diagonally to the right, the unicorn growing on the helmet. The same coat of arms can be seen on the seals that appear several times in the files, the seal stamp still bears the initials AS “.

His cousins Johann Adam Spitzner (1650–1723), pastor in Blankenhain, and Johann Balthasar Spitzner (1637–1703), deceased town councilor in Delitzsch, as well as their legitimate descendants, were sent to Kuntdorf on November 24, 1712 by the imperial Palatine Count Christoph von Kuntsch Altenburg was awarded a letter of coat of arms , which contains the following blazon : “The shield should have a blue field from which a jumping white unicorn with a golden ring in its mouth and golden hair rises up, under which there are six pieces of gray rock Third, somewhat broken off, on which an ordinary iron-colored stabbed helmet turned to the right side with three silver hoops, golden edges and lapels, around which apex is a golden crone, adorned with a blue and white helmet cover raised with gold and flying ribbons which a golden treasure hangs on a twisted golden band, but on the helmet to see a rising white unicorn with a gold ring in its mouth and gold hair ”.

While the heraldic animal in 1712 in the coat of arms painted on the parchment deed jumps to the left, later redrawings of the family coat of arms usually show it - as in 1673 - jumps to the right in a heraldically correct manner. So donated Walter Spitzner (1897-2001), drug producer and genealogists in Ettlingen , his crest 1959/60 compromise way "in consideration of the arms described in the crest letter of 1712", but at the same time "while largely respecting the ancient heraldic rules." The entry into the Wappenrolle Danzigmann was published in 1961. In 1989 Robert Spitzner, dentist in Usingen / Taunus, obtained the entry of his Spitzner coat of arms in the coat of arms of Pro Heraldica - German Research Association for Heraldry and Genealogy mbH . New design elements in 1989 are two green stemmed clovers on a silver serrated shield base and a blue Aesculapian staff in the upper coat of arms as a symbol of the medical profession to which the founder of the coat of arms belongs.

The oldest known seals in the family are those of Albrecht Spitzner in Vilseck (1383) and of Andreas Spitzner (1679), councilor in Dresden, which has been handed down as being "the size of a mark." The so-called Goseck form is assigned to the district judge Johann Karl Spitzner (1761–1844) in Goseck. It was a seal “with a triangular shield, low points in it, a small helmet cover, style end of the 18th century”. Oberregierungsbergrat Karl Spitzner in Dresden had several signet rings "from different times" : "Helmet and blanket richly structured in the form of the Renaissance coat of arms, the shield almost half occupied by the tips, which clearly emerge as six individual ones".

List of Evangelical Lutheran pastors

From the Vogtland-Saxon family Spitzner a "widespread pastor dynasty" emerged, which reached full development in the 18th century. The church historian Dietmann speaks of a "very old priestly family" as early as 1755. For the period from the end of the 16th century, 22 Evangelical Lutheran pastors are known:

  • Balthasar Spitzner the Elder Ä. (1564–1633) in Auerbach
  • Andreas Spitzner (1603–1670) in Auerbach
  • Balthasar Spitzner the Elder J. (1609–1681) in Trünzig and Blankenhain
  • Christian Spitzner (1638–1667) in Auerbach
  • Johann Adam Spitzner (1659–1723) in Blankenhain
  • Balthasar Andreas Spitzner (1679–1755) in Oberalbertsdorf
  • Johann Christian Spitzner (1683–1736) in Behlitz and Langenreinsdorf
  • Johann Andreas Spitzner (1693–1743) in Thierbach
  • Johann Karl Spitzner (1710–1766) in Lauenhain
  • Adam Benedict Spitzner (1717–1793) in Langenreinsdorf
  • Johann Andreas Spitzner (1726–1791) in Oberalbertsdorf
  • Adolph Friedrich Spitzner (1727–1776) in Neudorf
  • Johann Gottlieb Spitzner (1729–1776) in Blankenhain
  • Johann Ernst Spitzner (1731–1805) in Trebitz
  • Johann Adolph Spitzner (1759–1828) in Oberalbertsdorf and Langenreinsdorf
  • Ernst August Spitzner (1766–1840) in Crossen
  • Ernst Traugott Spitzner (1771–1818) in Trebitz
  • Heinrich Wilhelm Spitzner (1775–1811) in Thüßdorf
  • Ernst Rudolph Spitzner (1815-1893) in Planschwitz
  • Kurt Walter Spitzner (1912–1993) in Zwickau, Reichenbach and Stollberg
  • Hans-Christoph Spitzner (* 1950) in Plauen
  • Jörg-Martin Spitzner (* 1958) in Meerane , Neumark and Lengenfeld

Johann Balthasar Spitzner (1695–1754) first studied theology and then law, to become a. a. to act as domain tenant and manor manager. Johann Wilhelm Spitzner (1778–1799), in turn, died as a theology student, while the trained theologian Siegmund Wilhelm Spitzner (1764–1825) also studied law and became an administrative lawyer .

Genealogy

Handwritten records of the genealogy of the Spitzner family in Vogtland have been handed down from the second half of the 17th century. Pastor Balthasar Spitzner the Elder J. in Blankenhain, described posthumously as a "man of original coarseness", but also as a "hardworking worker" with a "strong family interest", was the first of the Vogtland Spitzner family to adopt genealogical questions and in 1661 a four-page manuscript with genealogical information. Furthermore, a family tree is assigned to him, which was continued by later hand until 1723. The oldest surviving portrait paintings show Balthasar Spitzner the Elder. J. around 1670 and his son Johann Adam Spitzner around 1690. Portrait photos are known from 1861 onwards.

At the beginning of the 20th century, District Judge Reinhard Spitzner and the lawyer and notary Georg Spitzner (1871-1935) made systematic research into the history and genealogy of the Spitzner family. After the appearance of a first descendants panel in editorship of the former Central Office for German personal and family history of related subjects Erich published way (1873-1945), a lawyer in Radeberg , 1936 on behalf of the family unit , the family chronicle of sex Spitzner , which supplemented by addenda 1938/39 could be. After the end of the Second World War , the drug manufacturer Walter Spitzner in Ettlingen came out immediately with new findings and his own publications on family history. The Wappenbuch was published in 1960 and seven printed family tables in 1973 , each going back to around 1800.

Well-known namesake

literature

  • Spitzner. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler : Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts . Volume 39, Leipzig 1744, column 295., accessed on August 6, 2011
  • Karl Gottlob Dietmann : The entire priesthood assigned to the unchanged Augspurgische Confeßion in the Electorate of Saxony and the incorporated lands . Part 1, Volume 3, Verlag Siegismund Ehrenfried Richter, Dresden and Leipzig 1755, pp. 1469 ff. And passim ( digital.bibliothek.uni-halle.de ), accessed on 23 August 2011
  • Bavarian Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Monumenta Boica . Publisher of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Volume 24, Munich 1821, p. 479 ( babel.hathitrust.org ), accessed on August 6, 2011
  • Saxony's church gallery. Eleventh volume. The Voigtland, including the ephorias: Plauen, Reichenbach, Auerbach, Markneukirchen, Oelsnitz and Werdau . Verlag von Heinrich Schmidt, Dresden 1844, p. 111 f. ( slub-dresden.de ), accessed on January 15, 2012
  • New Lusatian magazine . Printing and publishing by G. Heinze & Camp, Volume 24, Görlitz 1847, p. 113 f. ( google books ), accessed August 6, 2011
  • August Friedrich Pott : The personal names, especially the family names and the way they originated, also taking into account the place names . FA Brockhaus , Leipzig 1859, pp. 329 and 349 ( google books ), accessed on August 6, 2011
  • Georg Buchwald (Hrsg.): New Saxon Church Gallery. The ephoria Werdau, edited by the clergy of the ephoria . Verlag von Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1905, Sp. 87 ff. ( Slub-dresden.de ), accessed on January 15, 2012
  • Richard Freytag: On the history of the churches of the city of Auerbach iV In: 19th annual publication of the Altertumsverein zu Plauen for the years 1908–1909, p. 143 ff. ( Zs.thulb.uni-jena.de ), accessed on November 8, 2014
  • Emil Singer: The Spitzner forge in Raschau . In: The narrator on the Elster. Local history sheets for the Upper Vogtland from May 2, 1935
  • Central office for German personal and family history (ed.): Spitzner descendants . o. O. (Leipzig), o. J. (1935)
  • Erich Weise (Hrsg.): Family chronicle of the Spitzner family . Printed and published by C. Heinrich, Dresden-Neustadt 1936
  • Familienverband Spitzner (Ed.): Report on the family chronicle . Self-published, Radeberg 1938
  • That. (Ed.): Annual report 1938 and addendum II to the family chronicle . Self-published, Radeberg 1939
  • Ewald Rannacher: Contributions to the population history of the villages Wernesgrün and Rothenkirchen (the tax registers from 1531 to 1728). Sources for farm research and family research . Ed .: Administrative Office of the Reichsbauernführer, Reichshauptabteilung I Goslar, Verlag Blut und Boden GmbH, Goslar 1939
  • Reinhold Grünberg (edit.): Saxon Pastors' Book. The parishes and pastors of the Ev.-luth. Regional Church of Saxony (1539-1939) . Publishing house Ernst Mauckisch, part 2 (M - Z), Freiberg / Sachsen 1940, p. 892 f. ( dfg-viewer.de ), accessed on July 12, 2014
  • Walter Spitzner: Book of arms of the Spitzner . Self-published. Ettlingen 1960
  • Alfred Dochermann: coat of arms role Danzigmann. Coat of arms of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 17, Stuttgart 1961, pp. 21, 228 and 230
  • Walter Spitzner: The Spitzner saga of the Gemsensteiger . Self-published, Ettlingen 1963
  • Ders .: Origin of the Spitzner - research and thoughts on the origin of the Spitzner sex . Self-published, Ettlingen 1968
  • Ders .: Spitzner family archive, newsletters . Self-published, Ettlingen 1969–1993
  • Ders .: Spitzner family tables 15th to 18th century - research results from tax lists, church registers, official accounts, registration registers, court files, state and city archives, birth, marriage and death certificates . Self-published, Ettlingen 1973
  • W. Spitzner Medicinal Factory GmbH (Ed.): W. Spitzner Medicinal Factory GmbH Ettlingen / Baden . Self-published n.d. n.d. (1974)
  • Felix von Schröder: The councilors of Dresden 1549-1806 . In: Central German family studies. Degener & Co., Neustadt / Aisch, year 20, 1979, issue 3, p. 97 ff.
  • Volkmar Hellfritzsch : surname book of the Saxon Vogtland - based on the material of the districts of Plauen and Oelsnitz . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1992
  • Duden: family names - origin and meaning . Bibliographical Institute, 2nd, completely revised edition, Mannheim / Leipzig / Vienna / Zurich 2005, p. 634, ISBN 3-411-70852-2
  • Association for pastors in the Evangelical Church of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony (ed.): Pastors' book of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Volume 8: Biogramme Schr – To, Leipzig 2008, pp. 316 f., ISBN 978-3-374-02142-0
  • Albert Spitzner-Jahn: The Vogtland Spitzner family . Self-published, 2nd edition, Kamp-Lintfort 2011

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