Genealogie Härting
Härting
Onomastics
A very interesting area within the scope of the family historical research is the onomastics . With its help it is possible to draw conclusions about the spreading area 1 of a family name and therefore about the origin of a name holder, even further than the current general family historical sources. Family names (FN) got slowly popular since the 12 th century in Germany. Till then, only first names or rather full names were common like Hardus, Harto and so forth which were sufficient enough as distinctive feature at the times by low population density. FN were mostly formed by personal names, animal names, plant names, house names, yard names, meadow names, place names and names of occupations. The furthest back in the past ara places with the suffix-ing which were generated by personal names ( patronymic ). An important role in generating FN had the medieval German east settlement in the 8 th to the 14 th century as the development of the cities which were connected through internal migration. Therefore, name forming was promoted especially by occupations and point of origin e.g. Pertholt de Hartingen (Berthold von Harting). Ha(ae)rting is a small places in Bavaria, three kilometres southeastern of Regensburg.
1 Association for Computergenealogie e. V., Dortmund. 2 Censualen (Zensualen) are not free people in serfdom who were liable to interest. After the Censualen law the people had an interest (To pay deliveries, rent) to the lord of the manor. 3 CF. O. Dobenecker, 4th tape (1267 - 1288) and P. Bohemian, document book of the cloister gate (1351 - 1500).
Unfortunately, was defeated of the centuries surname by a constant name change. This it was changed of the surname, among the rest, in Germany also often with the possession or the dwelling house. Only since the 17th century the name change was prevented and established the surname bit by bit. There was another problem by the name change by the different manner of writing which was allowed, unfortunately, to far back in the 19th century. The registration of the surname in documents and registers almost never occurred after examination of documentary documents, but according to verbal information, as well as it the writer understood. In a hereditary bill of sale more than three acres of field from the 11th of March, 1659 it seems of the surname Härting in three variations. In the text of the local court clerk of Pegau the buyer is written once as a Glorius Härting and at other place than Glorio Härtingen, while he himself signs with own hand as a Glorius Herttingk. Now with the help of the name research I have tried to investigate, after the general family-historical springs, the historical development of the surname Härting and therefore the supposed origin of my forefathers..
The place Harting 3 km southeast from Regensburg remotely (Map cutting of 1858)
Cutting from the local encyclopaedia from Germany in 1868 with him Local names Härting.
From Hard/hard, got. Hardus educated family names we find again in the West-Frankish space already in the 6th century under the frequent name Leodardus, Medardus, Gothardus etc. till the 12th century. The Gothic family name Hardus should be provable even already in the 3th century as an own name. From the Old High German full names Ardo/Harto formed bit by bit New High German surname as for example: . > Hartes-Harden-Herdh(e)-Heerdt-Hört(h) with the patronymischen derivations: > Hart(d)ung-Harti(n)g-Herding-Herti(n)g-Härtig and the dialectal distortions: > Harding-Hartingk-Hert(t)ingk-Haerting-Härdtingk- Härttingk- Härting .
from the Germanic space of Bojohaemum (Bohemia) in Raetia (Bavaria). By newer knowledge in the archaeological research these were the markomannische southwest Bohemians who settled above all in the river rooms to the north of the Danube around Regensburg, so also in the area of the today's place Harting. In the middle of the 6th century wasted the concept Raetien which was a Roman province since the 1st century and by Baiuvari, men from the country of Baia (Bohemia) was substituted. With us in Germany the clan names ending on ingineer seem especially remarkably in Swabia and Bavaria. Here the suffix ing appears in formal-ing-heap and even more ing-lines arranged, thus on the edge of the big river valleys, generally with predilection in the level and fertile country..
Some-ing-places,-ing-lines and-ing-heap in the Munich surroundings
The place Harting near Regensburg was mentioned in a document already 863/864 be as the noble Arnedo Own to Hartinga (settlement near Regensburg) against a fief to Tann (settlement near Regensburg) sold. Under Heinrich 1st who combined Saxony, Thuringia, Franconia, Swabia, Bavaria and 925 Lorraine as a king 919 five family dukedoms , the recovery of the German east which was settled up to beginning of the migration in 375 AD already by Germanic trunks such as Langobards, Semonen, Sueben (Swabians), Markomannen (Bavarians), Vandals etc. was initiated. Heinrich 1st also guarded the country in the east against the inspirations of the west Slavs (Sorben and Wenden) and Magyaren (Hungary) and established not only border brands, but fastened his borders through imperial castles as for example Groitzsch ( castle Wiprechts) , Leipzig (castle Pleissen) , Altenburg etc. in whose protective area new towns were founded. Under him also originated in the area settled by Slavs the brands Zeitz, Merseburg and Meissen, later Saxony. Now the Frankish-German, rural settlement beginning bit by bit already already in the 8th century of the east was carried out under duke Lothar von Sachsen, count Wiprecht II. of Groitzsch , duke Heinrich to the lion of Saxony and by the mission work of the cloisters increasingly. In the anal Pegavienses to 1104 it is reported that count Wiprecht II of Groitzsch took the vast woodlands between the rivers Schnauder, Wyhra and Mulde with Frankish colonists, which he himself in big number from the area around Regensburg to fetch. Also the cloister Saint Emmeram in Regensburg was already at the end of the 8th century a centre for mission work in the Slav's area between Saale and Elster. Possibly at this time we find in the documents of the bishopric Regensburg and the cloister Saint Emmeram the proof of some Ha(e)rting-name bearers who were resident in the Bavarian place Harting/Härting near Regensburg about 125 years:
Family history research in Saxony
Obviously it concerns people of a clan who were resident at this time in the settlement/colony Harting and which more together former forefather than the first owner and founder could also have given the local name Harting in the 8th century, this old bajuwarischen settlement. The name of the colony Harting, borrowed by the first owner, stuck in the properties and then went over on his successor. On the other hand, it could act with the call names performed on top Berthold, Otto, Bruno, Heinrich and Hermann Ulli, also around the later incurred people who have received the place of origin Harting as a remarkable sign in the documents to the differentiation as epithets. Because more and more people carried the same first name, an unequivocal identification single was not guaranteed any more. After the fall Heinrich of the lion in the year 1180 suddenly broke down the mighty Saxon dukedom which to himself now on the possessions of the count Bernhard von Askanien, a son of the Saxon's duke Albrecht of the bear, limited. He combined his hereditary country on the upper Elbe around Wittenberg with Lauenburg under the name of a dukedom Saxony. After the extinction of the gender of the Askanier in the year 1422, mark count Friedrich 1th the Warlike received the country and the health resort dignity from Meissen as royal fiefdom. The land name "Saxony" walked with it Elbe upstream and became gradual also for the brands Merseburg, Zeitz and Meissen common. The political concept Saxony has been shifted in the family country of the old Saxons by North West Germany to Central Germany, while the old Saxons remained as people in North Germany, today Lower Saxony. From the knowledge of the onomastics and the historical development of Medium German Saxony we can suppose that the Härtingschen forefathers had moved during the big German east settlement, possibly in the beginnings of the 13th/14th century as Swabian-Bavarian colonial farmers, presumably from the place H(ä)rting, to Sorben in the brands Zeitz and Merseburg, to today's Saxony. Some documents from the 13th/14th century point to the fact that our forefathers could possibly have moved from north Bavarians via Thuringia in the brands Zeitz and Merseburg. Since on the 23rd of July, 1280 Hartung von Sachsenhausen kicked first with a purchase of land near Weimar in Thuringia as a witness on. Further Hans Hertnick (probably Hertinck) to Buttelstedt sold on the 4th of February, 1425 by Weimar all his goods in Sachsenhausen, Leutenthal and Obringen for 200 Rhenish guilders in Ludolf of Arnstdt in Zoppothen by Saalburg. These Hertinckschen goods became, finally, on the 9th of March, in the year 1427 by Friedrich 1th landgrave in Thuringia, mark count Meissen and count palatine to Saxony to the cloister Pforte near Naumburg, hand over to 3 the family Hans Hertinck has possibly moved to the sales of his goods from Thuringia to Saxony in the direction of Naumburg, Zeitz and Pegau . Also in Naumburg and Zeitz have sat down Ha(e)rting- name bearer according to the Turks and land tax registers possibly at the middle of the 16th century, as for example: > Mattes Hartting, in 1551 in Naumburg, Langemergengasse, with a property value of 135 n.ßo, pays 5 fl. 16 gr. 10 Pf. Country tax and 1 fl. 9 gr. 5 Pf. Turks tax. > Bartel Herting, in 1568 in Zeitz, in the Vorstetten before the Wasserthor, with a property value of 5 n.ßo, pays 3 gr. 9 d. Country tax for house and court. .
On the 31.10.1095 Perhtolt de Hartingen with his father Otto appear together with other 16 people than witnesses in Regensburg when abbot Pabo with the servant exchanges Machthild of the cloister Saint Emmeram, possessions to Isling (settlement near Regensburg). Further appear in the year 1105 Perhtoldus de Hartingen together with other six people than witnesses in Regensburg than Enziman hands over a serf as a Censualen 2 .
> Bruno of Herting and Heinrich of Herting (1135 -1160).
In 1155 Bruno and father Henricu de Hertingen appear together with other 16 people than witnesses in Regensburg when of the Diocese-ministerial Haward of the abbot Adalbert in exchange for possession to Harting a farm receives to Gämelkofen (settlement near Regensburg), further than fiefs a farm to Helmprechting (settlement near Regensburg) and a vineyard near Schwabelweis (settlement near Regensburg) .
> Hermann Ulli of Herting (1219).
In 1219 Hermannus uillicus de Hertinge appears together with other 14 people than witnesses than Irnfrid of Dünzling (settlement near Regensburg) hands over his woman and his children as a Censualen. .
With the family names ending on ingineer it concerns certainly the oldest German clan names which are due to the oldest German settlements of the Bavarians (Markomannen), who sat down during the migration over the Danube pushing forward
upward upward
The hereditary bill of sale from the 11th of March, 1659 in which the same name was found in three different manners of writing such as Glorius Härting, Glorio Härtingen, Glorius Herttingk
> Berthold of Harting and Otto of Harting (1095 - 1120).
Pegau around 1625
The place Härting near Regensburg (Bavaria map from Philip Apian 1568)