Family Hutstein(er) is mainly located in Lower Bavaria – around city of Passau -, Upper Bavaria – mainly immigrants to Munich – and Upper Austria with its capitol Linz.
The Bavarian-Austrian Hutstein families have a single point of origin at a small hamlet called ‘Hutstein’. It is close to the bavarian border (around 700 m distance) and had been part of Bavaria in former times, and belonging to the parish of Pfarrkirchen im Mühlkreis (Upper Austria). All inhabitants of this hamlet were called „Hutsteiner“, i.e. someone who lived in the hamlet of Hutstein got the surname ‚Hutsteiner‘.
One of the ‘Hutsteiner’ families lost the ending „-er“ of our surname at the beginning of the 19th century in the bavarian parish of Uttigkofen. All other families kept the ‘-er’.
The hamlet Hutstein
First known occurrence of someone living in Hutstein is 1509. Some tax documents at the governmental archive in Vienna mention paid taxes by ‘Tameln‘ (likely ‘Thomas’) at Hutstein in 1509.
Around 1550 there had been two farms located in Hutstein. One was dedicated to the reign of Falkenstein, the other to the reign of Rannariedl.
Most family members are of Roman-catholic confession.
In this area it was unusual to use ‚th‘ within our family name.
Out of these families only a few members emigrated to the US. Still there are some descendants living there.