Sargenroth - Name

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The placename ending —roth denotes the location of a clearing made for expanding fields or for settling. The name “Sargenroth” is recorded in the following spellings over the ages:

  • 1276? – Sargenrucke
  • 1346 – Sarchinreid
  • 1442 – Sarchenrat
  • 1464 – Sarchenraidt
  • 1543 – Sarchenrat
  • 1600 – Sarchertt
  • 1608 – Sarchrot
  • 1693 – Sarchenrath
  • 1706 – Sargenroth

After 1706, the name was usually spelt with a G. The rootword is the Old High German rod and the Middle High German rot, meaning a place made tillable by clearing, or simply a clearing. The qualifier Sargen— might well go back to somebody named Saricho. Thus, the name would originally have meant “Saricho’s Clearing”.

There is a further idea, propounded by several people named at the source given here, that the name might once have been associated with a convent.

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