Wehden (family name)

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Wehden is the name of a family name, variants are Weden , Wäden . The family name is not mentioned in the Duden (2005). The Duden describes the general form of the name Wehde as a place of residence.

Name research

The mecklenburger linguist Richard Wossidlo put place, office and property-related meanings of the Wedd and Wedde in a dictionary. This office and property-related interpretation does not occur in the Duden, this is then explained with evidence and should be included in the name interpretation in the future.

Further origins of the name

  • Wehden as a term for still water, cattle trough

Name derivations

  • Wehdendung , Low German plant name for the poisonous water hemlock ( wodendetel , 1587 Hamburg)
  • Wedekind , German nickname ( widu + kind ) has become a family name, attested as Wittekind in Goslaras early as 1370
  • Wedemann
    • Derivation on -mann
    • Professional name for a farmer who cultivated church property (mnd. Wedeme , church land)

Early mentions of the name

  • 1230 Wedighe von Losten, confirmation of the ownership of the Broda monastery
  • 1290 Wedigo, Broda Monastery
  • 1327 Wedige von Plate zu Peccatel , Vogt von Penzlin
  • 1373 Sale of a wood Wedige (Weeden)
  • 1376 attested in Lüneburg as Heyne van dem Wede.

Origin of names, places and field names

Weden See around 1766.jpg
Weden See near Peckatel around 1766 / Kleiniele
Wedin 1590, inscription in Kommtur Weddingen.jpg
Wedin 1590, inscription in the Komtur Weddingen, German Order
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Wehden, municipality in Lower Saxony


  • Wedensee near Klein Many in MV (also Wehden See ), western extension of the historic Isern Purt (Iron Gate), a Slavic Landwehr ( Landwehr )
  • Wedendorf , municipality in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
  • Wehden , place in Lower Saxony
  • On the Wehden, near Segeberg (see Kattendorf)
  • Wehden, a Meyerhof, near Ratzeburg (parish of Groß Berkentien)
  • Rondeshagener Wehden, estate name around 1802, called Göldenitzer Weeden in 1904
  • Wehdenbruch , nature reserve natural forest [1]
  • Wede, home name to mnd. wede for forest, lumber, wood.
  • Wedde, home name for the water body name Wedde, left tributary of the Oker in Lower Saxony
  • Große Wedde, connecting waters between Spykerschen See and the Jasmunder Bodden on Rügen
  • Weddeort near Glowe on Rügen
  • Pribowsche Wedde near Rugenhof / Samtens on Rügen
  • Landower Wedde near Landow on Rügen
  • Wedde , an authority of the city of Hamburg that collected fines until 1865
  • Wedding , place of origin name (Berlin), Weddingen in Lower Saxony, Alten-, Langen- and Osterweddingen in Saxony-Anhalt
  • Wedding, patronymic education on -ing by Wedde
  • Wedemeyer, stand name, more detailed description of a Meier, indication of its dependence on the wedeme or the location of the farm in the forest (to mnd. Wede = forest)

Occurrence in Germany

In the name frequency in Germany, Weden is at 64441 / Wehden at 63519.

  • Weden 54 occurrences corresponds to 144 name bearers, the highest proportion 38.9% of the Weden live in MV in the Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz area.
  • Wehden 55 occurrences corresponds to 144 name bearers, the highest proportion 32.7% of the Wehden live in MV in the Neubrandenburg / Neustrelitz area .

Name bearer

literature

  • Gisela Krull: Peckatel pastors tell of the "humble man in the country" about burdens, suffering and illegitimate children . In: Förderverein "Alte Schmiede" Peckatel (Ed.): 725th anniversary of Brusdorf and Peckatel . Druckerei Steffen GmbH, Peckatel 1999, p. 48 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jürgen Gundlach: Wossidlo Teuchert Mecklenburg Dictionary . Ed .: Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology. tape 7 . Akademieverlag Berlin, Karl Wachholz Verlag, Neumünster 1996, ISBN 3-529-04800-3 .
  2. ↑ Friedrich Pilger: Textbook for teaching the farmer . Ed .: Georg Friedrich Heyer. Georg Friedrich Heyer, Giessen 1802, p. 290-294 .
  3. ↑ Oil pen drawing by the painter Lorenz Kaim 1880, Rosenberg Fortress with Wehden or cisterns. (1000 years Kronach eV from 2007)
  4. ↑ Rosa and Volker Kohlheim: Duden, surnames, origin and meaning of 20,000 surnames . Ed .: Dudenverlag. Mannheim, Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2 .
  5. ↑ Described in Sierksrader Geschichte , then called Halben Wedeghe in 1401 .
  6. ↑ Rosa and Volker Kohlheim: Duden, surnames, origin and meaning of 20,000 surnames . Ed .: Dudenverlag. Mannheim, Leipzig, Vienna, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-411-70852-2 .
  7. ↑ Iron Gate. Accessed January 31, 2020 .
  8. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: Complete topographical-justiarisches Handbuch . tape 2 , part 2. Eduard Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845.
  9. ^ Johann Friedrich Kratzsch: Complete topographical-justiarisches Handbuch . tape 2 , part 2. Eduard Zimmermann, Naumburg 1845.
  10. ↑ Christoph Stöpel: Geogen online service. Retrieved January 29, 2020 .
  11. ^ Katrin Moeller: Names of the victims of the witch trials / witch persecution in Mecklenburg. (PDF) Institute for History of the MLU Halle-Wittenberg, 2008, accessed on January 31, 2020 .
  12. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg Schwerin . tape 5 . Pressure and Verlag Bärensprungschen Hofdruckerei, Schwerin i. M. 1902, p. 321 .