Wartmann

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Original family coat of arms, created in 1577.

Wartmann is the name of an old bourgeois family from eastern Switzerland . He is mentioned for the first time on June 24, 851 in deeds of donation to the Prince Abbey of St. Gallen . The name is not mentioned in a document as early as April 2, 797. On that day, the priests Fromolt and Cacanward had their inherited property at Eichstetten and Ausnang (today Leutkirch in Allgäu ) transferred to the St. Gallen prince abbey . In addition to fields, meadows, pastures, houses and huts, the serfs living on them , including the Wartman of Cacanward, who was probably his bodyguard.

Surname

The name Wartmann indicates an office or a place. Until the late Middle Ages , the bearers of the name were guards , in a city or a castle, a waiting did guard duty. The man who came from a residence on a control room or in the vicinity of a place Wart and was named after that was the Wartmann. The place name Wart occurs particularly in Eastern Switzerland, the original seat of the family.

Today those people still belong to the original Wartmann family, whose place of origin is in Eastern Switzerland or the Zurich Oberland; especially in Bauma , Bischofszell or Hittnau . The name has been so widespread around the world since the middle of the modern era that bearers of the name unrelated to the original gender were able to establish their own communities and use their own coat of arms.

coat of arms

In the coat of arms of the original Wartmann, two silver halberds crossing each other with a golden shaft stand in a red shield on a green hill growing out of the lower edge of the shield (so-called Dreiberg ). The helmet looking to the right is surrounded by red and white blankets.

Name bearer

people

literature

  • Robert Oehler: The Wartmann from Hittnau and Bauma. History of a family of schoolmasters and bricklayers in the Zurich Oberland. Sauerländer, Aarau 1956.

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