The Herberich Families

Lengfurt

The name Lengfurt means "the long ford", which is an appropriate name for the village, as it is located where a long ford used to run across the river Main.
The first approved documented mention of Lengfurt was in 1102. A mention in a tax-book from 800 a.d. is controversial and not accepted.
Nowadays Lengfurt is part of the federated municipality of Triefenstein in Lower Franconia, Germany. 

Stadtprozelten

Quite near of Lengfurt one will find Stadtprozelten. The first mention that is known to us is of a Gild Herberich, he is listed in 1555 as Senator in Stadtprozelten. Nowadays there are still decendants of  Ägidius Herberich (*1570) living in Stadtprozelten.

Main-Tauber area and Neckar-Odenwald area

As of now we know of the following places where Herberichs lived or still live: Eiersheim, Schweinberg, Pülfringen, Königheim, Hardheim and Gerichtstetten. This list is most likely not complete, but it shows the main distribution of the Herberich families in these areas.

Kaub

In Kaub we know of a first mention of the Herberich family in the late 17th Century. There is a possibility, though that a Herberich-family was living in Kaub even before that first mention.
I would like to mention especially David Herberich, who emigrated to the USA. He and his descendants seem to be quite esteemed in Akron/Ohio.

Netherlands

In the Netherlands we do also have a very early mention of the name Herberich. In a lease-contract from Dietere in Limburg, which dates back to exactly 1500, a Gort Herberich is mentioned as the lease-taker. Zu den früh ansässigen Herberichs gesellte sich in 19ten Jhd. mindestens ein Herberich aus Kaub. 

Odry (Odrau) - Czech Republic

We are at the beginnin of our research. What we know is that in the mid 18th century there was at least one family that was sometimes referenced by the name Herbrich, but in other occasions they were clearly titled with the second name Herberich.

Switzerland and France

For the Herberichs in Switzerland and in France we do have very little information yet.

Ireland

The Herberichs in Ireland are mainly from Lengfurt. One namesake living in Ireland has her roots in Pülfringen. The Herterich-family living mainly in the west of Ireland is according to our current research not related to any of the Herberichs. They also seem to live in ireland much longer than the Herberichs. 

USA

The USA seemed to be the classic emigration-country of the Herberichs for quite some time. One can not only find the Herberich-line originating from Kaub here.
Descendants of the  Herberichs from Lengfurt can of course also be found in the USA, but according to todays knowledge only female family-members did dare to stay away on the far side of  „of the big pond“ for longer.
The cartoon-pioneer Charles W. Kahles was The son of Maria Elisabeta Herberich. The Kahles family emigrated in either the late 19. century or in the early 20. century from Lengfurt to the USA.

Australia

The Australian Herberichs that we know about are all descendants of the Kaub-branch. One of the decendants of the Kaub-Herberichs is currently trying to find the proof that the missing link is indeed from Kaub.