New Post
Search
Help
ArchivesBranstetter
Does any one know what Branstetter/ Brandstetter means? or what lanuage it originated from?
1
Replies
Hi Maddie,
Beata is absolutely right. Here are some more details:
The most common spelling for that name in German speaking countries is Brandstetter although Brandstätter would be the "correct" spelling according to modern spelling rules.
The name has its origins in Bavaria (very south of Germany) and Austria. Usually people who rebuilt their houses on places which had been destroyed by a fire got that name.
Brandstatt and Brandstätt are common place names in Bavaria and Austria and later people comming from these places were called Brandstetter/Brandstätter as well, even if their own houses never had burned down.
Regards, Satu
Beata is absolutely right. Here are some more details:
The most common spelling for that name in German speaking countries is Brandstetter although Brandstätter would be the "correct" spelling according to modern spelling rules.
The name has its origins in Bavaria (very south of Germany) and Austria. Usually people who rebuilt their houses on places which had been destroyed by a fire got that name.
Brandstatt and Brandstätt are common place names in Bavaria and Austria and later people comming from these places were called Brandstetter/Brandstätter as well, even if their own houses never had burned down.
Regards, Satu
1
Brandstaette (or instead of ae an a with an umlaut--my computer's not cooperating right now or else I'd have made an umlaut) is German for the scene of a fire. There's no English equivalent for a German umlaut a but it would sound similar to a short e. My guess is Brandstaetter would mean someone who was at the scene of a fire.
1