Talk:Bauernfeind

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"Bauernfeind Coat of Arms and History", Accessed 2016-03-01, http://bauernfeindcoa.blogspot.com/2008/10/ancestry-of-name-bauernfeind.html

"Attempting an interpretation of the name in "DER SPRACHDIENST, Jg. XXXV ('91), H. 5

Bauer(n)feind is an Upper-German or Middle-German Übername [overall-name], that was common in Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburgm, Vienna, and especially in Plauen (occurred 63 times) around 1930; it was often found in Augsburg, Ingolstadt, Berlin, Frankfurt on the Main, Cologne, Leipzig, Chemnitz, and Dresden. This wide distribution indicates that Bauernfeind could not solely be an Übername in the narrow sense of 'Feind des Bauern' [enemy of the famer]; for this Bauer [farmer], mhd. bur, gebur, Ackersmann [field-man], Dorfgenosse [village-comrade], Nachbar [neighbor], Mitbewohner' [fellow occupant] +--feind, mhd. Viant, vient, vint, veint, ahd. fiant, got, fijands (zu fijan, hassen'), "Gegner aus Abneigung, Haß" [adversaries out of aversion, hate]. It may be that in particular cases an Übername has been assumed for knights [Ritter], robber-barons [Raubritter], and their bodyguards [Trabanten], which is apparent regarding: Heintz von Redwitz, who is called Bauemfeind (15th century). To a large extent Bauernfeind originated in high- and middle-German countrysides as a Übername for soldiers [Soldaten], brush-hands [Reisige], farmhands [Knechte], and servants [Diener], who by order of their lords proceeded to be severe and hard against the farmers and because of their incursion received this name. The mercenary-name [Söldnername] Bauernfeind is covered by the role of the Matz Bawrenfeind, who is one of the four soldiers who appears in Johann Pomarius' "Votum Jephtae" (Magdeburg 1574). As a mercenary-name, Bauer'nfeind could be found widely-dispersed since the 14th century and would then become an established surname.

Oldest references: Frenczl Pawernfeint of 1360 in Iglauer's city register"