Suedekum:
"Suedekum" is the german translation of "circumspicete", a word out of
the old Latin language, spoken in the Roman Empire and in the Middle Ages in Europe. It
means in German: "Sieh dich um", in English: "Look out for".
The name is first mentioned in a document in 1228 by Duke Barnim I. of Pommerania (in the
northern of Germany, near the Baltic sea). Barnim gave land to a man as a reward for true
service. He lead him on a hill, saying to him: "Look out for, that is Your
land".
In the Thirty Years´ War (1618-1648) the Suedekum family had to go with the Swedish
troops north to the Harz mountains (Lower Saxony) where the most of them live today. Two
of the Suedekums emigrated from Germany to America in the nineteenth century. I think
Suedekum in Switzerland are unknown. (1)
