Wetzel (family name)

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Wetzel is a German surname that also appeared in neighboring countries as a result of the migration of German name bearers and can now be found worldwide (e.g. occurrence in southern Chile and the USA ).

Origin and meaning

The name Wetzell, Wetzel, Wezel, Wezzelius, Veccelius, Vueccelius is originally a widespread Middle High German first name . The name Wetzel is a short, Kose or contracted form of Werner. The name Werner is a German nickname. It represents a contraction of the Old High German words "werin" (popular name of the warning) and "heri" ("army"). Appearances are around the year 1000 Wazilin, in 1260 Wetzelin (us) and in 1410 Weczil.

distribution

Relative distribution of the surname Wetzel in Germany

The surname Wetzel is a surname that is more common than average in Germany. However, it occurs in the neighboring mixed-language and German-speaking regions of France and Switzerland as well as in countries that were at times strongly influenced by German immigrants (such as the USA or Chile).

Germany

In 2015, the family name Wetzel was ranked 374th among the most common family names in Germany. If you put the occurrence of the family name in relation to the population density , the result is a specific frequency distribution of the family name Wetzel in the total population. The family name Wetzel has its main distribution area in an arc from Lake Constance via western Baden-Württemberg , southern Hesse , northern Bavaria to the Vogtland and the Ore Mountains .

Saxony-Thuringia

Saxony-Anhalt and Brandenburg

  • In southern Saxony-Anhalt, not far from the Saxon-Thuringian deposits, there is a slightly increased occurrence in the districts of Weißenfels , Sangerhausen and Mansfelder Land .
  • There is also a stronger occurrence of the family name Wetzel in the district of Stendal in northern Saxony-Anhalt .
  • This is followed by the Havelland and Potsdam-Mittelmark districts in Brandenburg , which also have a slightly increased incidence.

Hessen-Kassel

  • In Hessen-Kassel there is still an increased density of the family name Wetzel around Kassel, namely in the city of Kassel and the neighboring districts of Kassel , Schwalm-Eder , Hersfeld-Rotenburg and the Werra-Meißner district . This corresponds to the catchment area of ​​the Wetzel (Grebenstein) and Wetzel (Niederthalhausen) family lines, whose common roots are sometimes assumed, but only poorly documented.

Francs

  • To the southwest of Hessen-Kassel there is an increased occurrence in the Rhön-Grabfeld district .
  • The Miltenberg district is located in western Franconia and has an increased occurrence. However, this can already be seen in connection with the occurrences in North Baden, South Hesse and the southern Palatinate.

Northern Baden-Württemberg, southern Hesse and southern Palatinate

In the southern Hessian district of Bergstrasse there is a main occurrence of the family name Wetzel, which is still slightly increased in the neighboring city of Heidelberg and in the Rhein-Neckar district . Not far from there, another main deposit can be found in the district of Germersheim , which radiates into the districts of Rastatt , Enzkreis and Freudenstadt , which are not far from it . From here it is not far to the name occurrences in Alsace .

Southern Baden-Württemberg, Lake Constance and southern Bavaria

In the south of Baden-Württemberg, there are two other main areas where Wetzel tribes settle. One tribe has its center in the district of Sigmaringen with an extreme concentration of the family name Wetzel, which still radiates in the neighboring district of Reutlingen and in particular the districts of Ravensburg and Lindau (Lake Constance) . The last central settlement area is in the Lörrach district . Between these centers there is a slightly higher concentration in the Schwarzwald-Baar district . Various occurrences can also be found in German-speaking Switzerland.

variants

See also

  • Wetzel - names derived from the family name

Family lines (by origin)

The family lines are recorded in the respective church registers and partly published online in genealogies (see e.g. in the online databases Gedebas, Geneanet or Wikitree). The places of origin represent the earliest documented evidence of geographical origin.

A.

  • Wetzel (Aesch) in the canton of Basel-Country / Switzerland
  • Wetzel (Altdorf) from Württemberg
  • Wetzel v. Arbing (noble family) from Upper Austria

B.

  • Wetzel (Basel) in the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland
Coat of arms of the von Klinski-Wetzel family
  • v. Klinski-Wetzel (Berlin) from a name and coat of arms association of the families of Rautenberg-Klinski and Wetzel (Niederthalhausen)
  • Wetzel (Biblis) in the Bergstrasse district in Hessen-Darmstadt
  • Wetzel (Blackfoot), in the Blackfoot Indian Reservation in Glacier County, Montana / USA.
  • Wetzel (Burnhaupt-le-Bas) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Alsace region / France

C.

Coat of arms of the v. Wetzel gen. V. Carbene

D.

  • Wetzel (Dingelstädt) in the Eichsfeld district
  • Wetzel (Dittersdorf) in the town of Loessnitz in the Erzgebirgskreis in Saxony

E.

  • Wetzel (Ensheim) in the Alzey-Worms district, Saarland

G

  • Wetzel (Gernsheim) in the Groß-Gerau district, Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Wetzel (l) (Grebenstein) from Hessen-Kassel
  • Wetzel (Grenzach) in Baden
  • Wetzel (Groß Tychow), Polish Tychowo, in today's powiat Białogardzki of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland

H

  • Wetzel (Hereford) in Berks County in Pennsylvania / USA

I.

  • Wetzel (Illfurth) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Alsace region / France.

K

  • Wetzel (Kuppenheim) in the Rastatt district in Baden-Württemberg

L.

  • Wetzel (Longswamp) in Lehigh County in Pennsylvania / USA
  • Wetzel (Ludwigstal), today Karla Libknechta / Карла Лібкнехта near Mariupol / Ukraine

N

Wetzel coat of arms (Niederthalhausen)
  • Wetzel (Niederthalhausen) in the municipality of Ludwigsau in northeast Hesse in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg, and since around 1850 also in southern Chile
  • Wetzel (Niederfrohna) in the district of Zwickau in Saxony
  • Wetzel (walnut) in Neulingen im Enzkreis (Baden-Württemberg)
  • Wetzel (Nordheim) in the municipality of Biblis in the Bergstrasse district in Hessen-Darmstadt

P

  • Wetzel (Pockau) in the Erzgebirge in Saxony

R.

  • Wetzel (Ribeauvillé) in the Haut-Rhin department in the Alsace region / France
  • Wetzel (Rhinow) in the Havelland district in Brandenburg

S.

  • Wetzel (Salsitz) in the municipality of Kretzschau in the Burgenland district in Saxony-Anhalt
Coat of arms of the Wetzel v. Marsilien (Strasbourg)
  • Wetzel v. Marsilien (noble family) from Strasbourg in Alsace / France
  • Wetzel (Schurow), in Polish Skórowo, in the Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland
Wetzel coat of arms (Schwäbisch Hall)
  • Wetzel (Schwäbisch Hall) in the district of Schwäbisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg, salt boiler and councilors
  • Wetzel (Sieversdorf) in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin in northwest Brandenburg
  • Wetzel (Singling) in the commune of Gros-Réderching in the Moselle department, Lorraine region / France

T

  • Wetzel (Thamsbrück) in the town of Bad Langensalza in the Unstrut-Hainich district in Thuringia

W.

  • Wetzel (Wattenheim) in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate
  • Wetzel (Wheeling Creek) in Marshall County in West Virginia / USA (later also in Ohio / USA)
  • Wetzel (Wildberg) in the Calw district, Baden-Württemberg

Z

  • Wetzel (Zwönitz) in the Erzgebirge in Saxony
  • Wetzel (Zurich) in Switzerland

Name bearer (by first name)

A.

B.

C.

D.

E.

F.

G

H

J

Justus Wetzel , German composer and educator
Johann Wetzel , German theologian

K

L.

Grave of Lewis Wetzel, American Indian fighter
  • Lewis Wetzel (1752–1808), American Indian fighter and trapper

M.

O

P

R.

S.

  • Siegfried Wetzel (* 1949), German politician (CDU), MdV, MdL
  • Susanne Wetzel , German computer scientist and professor at the Department of Computer Science at the Stevens Institute of Technology (SIT)
  • Sylvia Wetzel (* 1949), German feminist and Buddhist

T

U

W.

See also

literature

  • German gender book. Volume 84, Hessischer Volume 8, Gender Wetzell, p. 681 ff
  • Rolf Bidlingmaier: family book We (t) zel. Bempflingen (self-published) 2004

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Gender Book Volume 84, Hessischer Volume 8, Gender Wetzell, p. 681 ff
  2. ↑ Horst Naumann: The great book of family names - age, origin, meaning. Wiesbaden 1996, sv "Wetzel"
  3. ↑ Distribution of the family name in Germany: Geogen von Christoph Stoepel
  4. ↑ see on the Internet under Geneanet ; Gedebas ; Wikitree
  5. ↑ see on this in the State Archives of the Canton of Basel-Landschaft, published on www.baselland.ch
  6. ↑ On the trail of ancestors , Reutlinger Generalanzeiger of November 16, 2004, published on May 10, 2015
  7. ↑ Julius Strnadt : History of the rule Windeck and Schwertberg in the land above the Enns. In: Imperial Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): Archive for Customer Austrian History Sources, Volume 17, Vienna 1857, pp. 149 ff., P. 158.
  8. ↑ Estate of Dr. Arnold Lotz (1862–1930), genealogical notes on Basel families (blue notebooks), C568, "Wetzel" (digitized version )
  9. ↑ see on this in the German coat of arms of the HEROLD association for heraldry, genealogy and related sciences eV, Berlin, under no. 11717/15
  10. ↑ arose through the connection of William Scott Wetzel (1843-1891) from Perry County in Pennsylvania / USA with Margaret "Maggie" Simon (1856-1904) from the Blackfoot Indian tribe. Their graves can be found in the Old Highland Cemetery in Great Falls, Cascade County, Montana / USA, described on www.findagrave.com on June 9, 2015; Fortunes made and fortunes lost: Corporal William Scott Wetzel, in: Montana territory and the civil war, Charleston 2013, pp. 70 ff
  11. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German nobility lexicon. Nine volumes. Friedrich Voigt, Leipzig 1859–1870, Vol. 9, Wetzel gen v Carben ; for genealogy see also: Bernhard Peter, Gallery: Photos of beautiful old coats of arms No. 1900, Staden (zu Florstadt, Wetteraukreis), Ysenburg Castle in Staden , online on June 5, 2015
  12. ^ German gender book, eighth volume 1935, p. 680 ff., "Wetzell, v. Wetzel "
  13. ↑ General German coat of arms roll No. 514
  14. ↑ see the discussion page on ancestry.com on June 9, 2015
  15. ↑ see the discussion page on ancestry.com on June 9, 2015
  16. ↑ so-called " Black Sea Germans ", place of origin Eich / Worms unsecured
  17. ↑ Patricio Legarraga Raddatz, Frutillar - Genealogías de Familias Alemanas, Santiago 2002, p. 616 ff.
  18. ↑ see the chronicle of the Wetzelmühle in Niederfrohna
  19. ↑ a connection to the tribe Wetzel (Biblis) is likely
  20. ↑ a connection to the Wetzel (Sieversdorf) seems likely
  21. ↑ General German coat of arms roll No. 188
  22. ^ Johann Christian von Hellbach, Adels-Lexicon, Vol. 2, Leipzig 1826, "Wetzel von Marsilien"
  23. ↑ Social history of an imperial city 1216–1802 Wunder Gerd, illustrations based on photographs by Otto Kasper 335 pages. Published by the Historical Association for Württembergisch Franconia, the Schwäbisch Hall city archive and the Hohenlohe central archive in Neuenstein. Volume 16, Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen, 1980, ISBN 3-7995-7613-4
  24. ↑ see the discussion page on ancestry.com on June 9, 2015
  25. ↑ Gender book of the city of Zurich, Zurich 1657, "Wetzel"