Lines
So far the following Ziegenfuss lines are known:
- Eichsfeld line: It traces back to a Hans Hildebrand Ziegenfuss, who lived around 1650 in the Eichsfeld area. His descendants live(d) particularly in Silberhausen, Helmsdorf, Dingelstädt and Kallmerode. Some persons immigrated around 1850 into the USA, particularly into the Midwest. Today are approx. 18,500 descendants admits, who are to be found particularly in Germany and the USA. More infos about this line can be found here: Descendants of Hans Hildebrand Ziegenfuss
- Odenwald line: This line established itself after the Thirty Years' War in the Odenwald (above all Raidelbach, Gadernheim and Beedenkirchen, today local parts of Lautertal (Odenwald)). The ancestor of this line originated from the Eichsfeld village Wingerode. The connection to Eichsfeld the line cannot be reconstructed. Already about 1750 some families emigrated and established them in Pennsylvania. The above mentioned deviating ways of writing are carried nearly without exception by members of the Odenwald line. In the 18th Century was written the name in the Odenwald also Zehfuss (means toe foot). The American part of the line is investigated partially well and covers more than 4,000 persons, who live mainly in the northeast of the USA.
- Ruhr district line: Around 1850 a goat foot from the Eichsfeld place Ecklingerode emigrated after Castrop-Rauxel. Two of his sons emigrated to the USA and to Australia. Many ' Ziegenfusses ' in the Ruhr district can be assigned this line. Also the work council boss Hans Ziegenfuss become known Germany far into the 1980er to years in the context of the bankruptcy that of Bremer Vulkan belongs to this line.
- North German line: In the area of the Lüneburg Heath leave themselves since approx. 1750 persons with the name Ziegenfuss prove. This line was so far only partly investigated. Searches of Robert Ziegenfuss from the Odenwald line into the 1930er years resulted in that connections to the Eichsfeld are to exist. A large family, which resides particularly in Texas, and whose ancestor comes from Weferlingen and Helmstedt, could likewise belong to this line.
- Saxon line: In the proximity of Bautzen and Dresden persons with the name leave themselves to prove before 1700 already isolate. More exact information to the origin is missing.
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