Drangmeister
Drangmeister is a German surname.
Origin and meaning[edit]
The name Drangmeister (less frequently used are the variants Drankmeister and Drangemeister) originates in the village of Endeholz (Scharnhorst municipality), Celle (district), Lower Saxony. This name, originally a sobriquet, is one of the oldest surnames of the rural surrounding of Celle.[1]
In the beginning there was a unique namebearer (see image below: Drancmester, approx. 1350, Endeholz).
In its early meaning of 'potion master' ([Middle High German] Dranc, Tranc or [Middle Low German] Drang, Drank = potion[2]), the name stood for healer or manufacturer of medicinal beverages.[1]
The documentary first mention of the name – about 1389 – is found in Stuart Jenks. A plague pandemic in Europe, the so-called Black Death (approx. 1350), had caused the allocation of the name.[1]
Distribution[edit]
Coming into use approximately in the year 1350 at the farmstead "Endeholz No. 6" the name Drangmeister had spread during the following 350 years as shown in the adjacent image – as far as namesakes could be determined for that period.
Even in 2011 there were about 75% of the approximately 350 known namesakes living within a circumradius of no more than 50 km (31 mi) length around the village of Endeholz.[3]
The founder of the Drangmeister population of the United States, a Drangmeister native of Scharnhorst (a neighboring village of Endeholz), immigrated in the year 1854.[1]
Variants[edit]
In historical documents these spellings are found:[1]
- Drancmester, Dranckmester, Drangmester, Dragmester, Dragemester, Drankmester, Dranckmeister, Drangmeister, Drankmeister, Drangemeister, Dracmeister, Drancmeister, Dragmeister, Dragemeister, Trankmeister
Today's namesakes bear the name in the following forms:[1]
- Drangmeister, Drankmeister, Drangemeister
Sources[edit]
- Rudolf Grieser: Das Schatzregister der Grossvogtei Celle von 1438 und andere Quellen zur Bevölkerungsgeschichte der Kreise Celle, Fallingbostel, Soltau und Burgdorf zwischen 1428 und 1442, Hildesheim und Leipzig 1934 (Nachdruck 1961)
- Stuart Jenks: England, die Hanse und Preußen: Handel und Diplomatie, 1377–1474, Band 1–3, Böhlau, Köln 1992
- Carl Koppmann (Hrsg.): Die Recesse und andere Akten der Hansetage von 1256–1430, Band 1–8, Leipzig 1870–1897
- Thomas Vogtherr (Hrsg.): Urkundenbuch der Stadt Uelzen, (= Lüneburger Urkundenbuch, 14. Abteilung), August Lax, Hildesheim 1988, ISBN 3-7848-3018-8
- Adolf Meyer, Hans Türschmann (Mitarbeit): Endeholz: Quellen und Darstellungen zur Geschichte des Dorfes und seiner Einwohner
- Kerstin Rahn: Religiöse Bruderschaften in der spätmittelalterlichen Stadt Braunschweig, Reichold, Hannover, Braunschweig 1994
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d e f g Dr. Walter Drangmeister "Eine Abhandlung zur Bedeutung und zur Herkunft der Namen Drangmeister, Drankmeister und Drangemeister – oder wie ein Familienname sich fast 700 Jahre weit zurückverfolgen lässt", Catalog of the German National Library
- ^ German Dictionary by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
- ^ "Geogen – GenWiki". Archived from the original on May 11, 2013. Retrieved 2014-12-22.
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