Sargenroth

Sargenroth is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Simmern, whose seat is in the like-named town.GeographyLocationThe municipality lies in the central Hunsrück, between the Simmerbach valley and the Soonwald, a heavily wooded section of the west-central Hunsrück, roughly 8 km east of Kirchberg and 5 km south of Simmern. Sargenroth’s highest elevation is the Wildburghöhe, 629 m above sea level.NameThe 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 – SargenrothAfter 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”.