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Show ContentsRothenburger History, Family Crest & Coats of Arms

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The surname Rothenburger is a habitation name, from the broad category of hereditary surnames, which are derived from place names. In this case, the surname Rothenburger is derived from any of a number of places so called in Germany. The name Rothenburger derives from the Yiddish royt, which means red, and the German word berg, which means hill. This was an ornamental surname for someone who lived near the red hill.

United States Rothenburger migration to the United States +

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Rothenburger Settlers in United States in the 18th Century
  • Johannes Rothenburger, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1754 [1]

Contemporary Notables of the name Rothenburger (post 1700) +

  • Christa Luding- Rothenburger (b. 1959), née Rothenburger, a German two-time gold and silver medalist speed skater and track cyclist, active in the 1980s and 1990s; the only athlete to win Winter and Summer Olympic medals in the same year (1988)
  1. Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
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