tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-78277029531312631492024-02-18T20:27:31.689-08:00Memory Keeper's NotesMary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-11129194129904725612023-09-17T20:46:00.000-07:002023-09-17T20:46:16.362-07:00<p> Ottillie Jaeger was born On October 31, 1878 in Alsace Lorraine." Ottilie is a female given name stemming from the medieval German boy's name Otto and meaning "riches", "wealth" or "prosperity". It has never become very popular in modern culture and has remained very low on popularity rankings only reaching its peak in 1880 when it reached almost 600th position in the US. Ottilie is a much more common first name in German-speaking countries."</p><p> She came to America with my Grandmother, Gertrude Grossholtz and arrived on October 14, 1895 aboard the ship Le Gerciogne. By 1910 she was living at 464 Amterdam Avenue in Manhattan with her future husband, Frederick Christian Solz who was 40 years old and was born in Germany around 1870. He had immigrated from Germany in 1881.</p><p>At that time Frederick was listed as working in a delicatessen. Ottilie married Frederick Solz on June 13, 1916 in Manhattan. In 1925 Ottilie returned to France probably to visit family. She sailed back to America on the Suffren leaving from Le Havre, France. She was 46 at the time and her husband Frederick traveled with her.</p><p>Ottilie and Frederick continued to live in Brooklyn and they ran a boarding house in the 1930's and 40's. At one point my grandmother's relative George Grossholtz lived in Ottilie and Frederick's boarding house and was listed as a nephew in the 1920 Census he immigrated to America in 1911 when he was 16 years old and was born in 1894 on August 10th, according to George's World War II Draft Registration Cards in 1942.</p><p>George was born in Neuhausel, Alsace, Germany and immigrated to America from Antwerp, Belgium leaving Belgium on October 15, 1910 and arrive on the Vaderland on October 15, 1910. On September 8, 1921 he petitioned for Naturalization. At this time he was married to wife Grace who was born on February 16, 1901 in Munich, Germany. The couple had two children, Grace Josephine born April 20, 1921 and George Joseph born July 23, 1922. In 1921 they lived at 1692 2nd Avenue in Manhattan. He died in August 1971 at age of 77 and his last place of residence was Suffolk County, New York.</p><p>My mother was named after Ottilie when she was born. Her Godmother was Ottilie Solz a wonderful women who remained friends with the family until her death. When my sister, Barbara Ann Koferl was born my mother asked her godmother, Ottilie to be the godmother.</p><p>They returned a number of times to France to visit relatives, Ottilie had a brother, Joseph Jaeger who owned a farm in Neuhaeusel at 47 Neuhaeusel 67, France. When Frederick died Ottillie returned home to France to live on her brother's farm for the rest of her days. Her last know resident in the states was 234 Berkeley Place, Brooklyn. She died at the age of 87 on July 2, 1966. She is interred at the cemetery in Neuhaeusel.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-49466381509702699232023-09-17T20:36:00.001-07:002023-09-17T20:36:11.930-07:00Eva Jaeger Buchert<p>Eva Jaeger was born on June 12, 1879 in Neuhaeusel the same town where my Grandmother was born. Along the way she met my Grandmother and they became friends. Around the age of 17 they were ready for an adventure and left their homeland for America. Why they both left their homeland at the same time is unknown. Perhaps they were looking for a new start in life. A chance to better their lives. They arrived on a Monday, October 14, 1895. The stormy weather made the trip difficult for the girls.</p><p>Previously Alsatian came for many reasons; “In 1815-16 Alsatians who wanted to emigrate had already had a path mapped out for them for over a century. This path led to an Eden of abundance and liberty which contrasted notably with the economic and psychological conditions in Alsace after the Napoleonic wars. It was not going to be easy because even if conditions were favorable across the ocean they first had to overcome enormous difficulties, maybe even face death. “https://amct.pagesperso-orange.fr/migrants_eg.htm</p><p>“The Franco-Prussian War, which started in July 1870, saw France defeated in May 1871 by the Kingdom of Prussia and other German states. The end of the war led to the unification of Germany. Otto von Bismarck annexed Alsace and northern Lorraine to the new German Empire in 1871. France ceded more than 90% of Alsace and one-fourth of Lorraine, as stipulated in the treaty of Frankfurt. Unlike other members states of the German federation, which had governments of their own, the new Imperial territory of Alsace-Lorraine was under the sole authority of the Kaiser, administered directly by the imperial government in Berlin. Between 100,000 and 130,000 Alsatians (of a total population of about a million and a half) chose to remain French citizens and leave </p><p>Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, many of them resettling in French Algeria as Pieds-Noirs. Only in 1911 was Alsace-Lorraine granted some measure of autonomy, which was manifested also in a flag and an anthem (Elsässisches Fahnenlied). In 1913, however, the Saverne Affair (French: Incident de Saverne) showed the limits of this new tolerance of the Alsatian identity.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace</p><p><br /></p><p>Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen, many of them resettling in French Algeria as Pieds-Noirs. Only in 1911 was Alsace-Lorraine granted some measure of autonomy, which was manifested also in a flag and an anthem (Elsässisches Fahnenlied). In 1913, however, the Saverne Affair (French: Incident de Saverne) showed the limits of this new tolerance of the Alsatian identity.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace</p><p>“The Treaty of Frankfurt gave the residents of the region until October 1, 1872, to choose between emigrating to France or remaining in the region and having their nationality legally changed to German. About 161,000 people, or around 10.4% of the Alsace-Lorraine population, opted for French citizenship (the so-called Optanden); but, only about 50,000 actually emigrated, while the rest acquired German citizenship.[6] The sentiment of attachment to France stayed strong at least during the first 16 years of the annexation. During the Reichstag elections, the 15 deputies of 1874, 1881, 1884 (but one) and 1887 were called protester deputies (fr: députés protestataires) because they expressed to the Reichstag their opposition to the annexation by means of the 1874 motion in the French language: « May it please the Reichstag to decide that the populations of Alsace-Lorraine that were annexed, without having been consulted, to the German Reich by the treaty of Frankfurt have to come out particularly about this annexation. »[7] The Saverne Affair (usually known in English-language accounts as the Zabern Affair), in which abusive and oppressive behavior by the military towards the population of the town of Saverne led to protests not just in Alsace but in other regions, put a severe strain on the relationship between the people of Alsace-Lorraine and the rest of the German Empire.</p><p>Under the German Empire of 1871–1918, the annexed territory constituted the Reichsland or Imperial Territory of Elsaß-Lothringen (German for Alsace-Lorraine). The area was administered directly from Berlin, but was granted limited autonomy in 1911. This included its constitution and state assembly, its own flag, and the Elsässisches Fahnenlied ("Alsatian Flag Song") as its anthem.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace-Lorraine</p><p>It is not know if they were being met by anyone or if they had to make their own way finding a place to live as well as a job. The next record located is their marriage license. Eva was married to Gottfried Charles Buchert on May 14, 1898. In 1900 the family lived at 1702 2nd Avenue a part of the Yorkville Neighborhood. By 1910 Federal Census they were married twelve years and had two daughters Dora and Elsie. At that time they were living on 306 91st Street in Manhattan. Gottfried or Charlie for which he was known by his family and friends a was an upholsterer. The apartment building was in the Yorkville neighborhood located in the upper east side. The building that is there today was built in 1925.</p><p>“For much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Yorkville was a middle- to working-class neighborhood, inhabited by many people of Czech, Slovak, Irish, Polish, German, Hungarian, and Lebanese descent. The area was a mostly German enclave, though.[12] The neighborhood became more affluent.[13]</p><p>From 1880, Yorkville became a destination for German-born immigrants. However, by the 1900s, many German residents moved to Yorkville and other neighborhoods from "Kleindeutschland" (Little Germany) on the Lower East Side after the General Slocum disaster on June 15, 1904. The ship caught fire in the East River just off the shores of Yorkville, leading family members to move closer to the site of the incident.[14] Most of the passengers on the ship were German.[15][16] In addition, the general trend towards moving to the suburbs reduced the German population in Manhattan; by 1930, most German New Yorkers lived in Queens.</p><p>On 86th Street, in the central portion of Yorkville, there were many German shops, restaurants and bakeries. Yorkville became the melting pot of populations arriving from various regions of the Prussian-dominated German Empire and its colonies, where many cultures spoke German. In the 1930s, the neighborhood was the home base of Fritz Julius Kuhn's German American Bund, the most notorious pro-Nazi group in 1930s United States, which led to spontaneous protests by other residents.[17] Yorkville was a haven for refugees from fascist Germany in the 1940s, and from refugees from communist regimes in the 1950s and 1960s. The neighborhood is the site of the annual Steuben Parade, a large German-American celebration.[18]”</p>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-77234511194362926752023-09-17T17:58:00.000-07:002023-09-17T17:58:00.377-07:00Property Research in New York City: A Case Study Part 2<p><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px;">In April I started to tell you about my search for a property record that would tell me why my Aunt who was pictured in a photograph from the 1920’s was standing in-front of a property for sale sign. Was it the future sight of my Grandfather’s second bakery or was it property that her husband was interested in purchasing.</span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I must admit that I know very little about the geography or layout of the city. Mainly because I have lived and worked on Long Island most of my life. This has made my research more difficult then for other genealogist and why I often refer to some resources that I will mention throughout this article to provide a guide for my research. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNyVxwh_HseUJsslnsAxk5fdvg2iZ1uRjY8OX2U_XCkUWUXg7hDRMjE0Qc-CtIOP0lVefVT1qMFipryJ5Bp_OasD0LyvB8UGARjJtCR0LIcHWJYCQQi7P21INX7QV588jvbeGzxhwCJH0DteRjg27pRA_1SiqL76dX643boEcU7Y8t-mDVGRDBQtpcPed/s4032/9AE0A7CE-96AE-467A-9B27-2FFC200A69BA.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNyVxwh_HseUJsslnsAxk5fdvg2iZ1uRjY8OX2U_XCkUWUXg7hDRMjE0Qc-CtIOP0lVefVT1qMFipryJ5Bp_OasD0LyvB8UGARjJtCR0LIcHWJYCQQi7P21INX7QV588jvbeGzxhwCJH0DteRjg27pRA_1SiqL76dX643boEcU7Y8t-mDVGRDBQtpcPed/s320/9AE0A7CE-96AE-467A-9B27-2FFC200A69BA.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The New York City Municipal Archives is a great place to do research. In 2016 they published an authorized guide to the Archives. Although a little old it is still useful and is currently available electronically for purchase from the New York Genealogical and Biological Society. If you are doing a lot of research in New York City this resource is strongly recommended. Chapters 7 thru 9 cover property records.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Prior to 1966, New York City records are in several places an in different formats. Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens records are in the city register office in the borough that the property is located. Brooklyn records are in Queens City Register Office. They are on microfilm. Staten Island records are in the Richmond County Clerk Office.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Property cards existed between 1930 thru 1970. They were designed to assist the Department of Finance with property tax assessments. They give ownership, building classification and assessed valuation. Unfortunately This resource is not going to help me in my search because Property Cards were started in 1930. I am looking for resources covering the 1920-23 period.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The next resource are Business records. License and filings are held by the issuing agency. Older records are held at the state or county archives. In NYC the older records between 1818 - 1938 are held at Division of Old Records, New York County Clerk’s Office and can be reached at 646-386-5395. This seems like the next place to do research for my Grandfather’s bakeries. Of course the business records are arranged by owner. Therefore I will check under my Grandfather’s name as well as my aunt’s husband’s name, John J. Clark. When I contacted the Division of Old Record, I was given an email address to contact the person by email, Jvannost@ <a href="http://nycourts.gov">nycourts.gov</a> and I waiting for a response.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I know most property record searches are done using deeds. In NYC from 1966 to present there is an electronic database ACRIS, Automated City Register Information System. <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/acris.page">https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/acris.page</a> of course when we refer to NYC we are covering Manhattan, queens, Brooklyn and Bronx.one can search by lot and lot or by owner. This database would not help me in my research but is useful to know about.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another resource is the Family Search database which has indexed New York State deeds and indexes up until 1880’s. There are a number of resources available on Family Search that include land records from the United States. The New York Land Records 1630-1975 database is an index that can be searched by property owner’s name, <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_York_Land_and_Property">https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_York_Land_and_Property</a>. When I searched this database, I my grandfather or aunt’s husband name did not appear.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Other resources to try include land auction catalogs, real estate tax records, newspapers, census records and Department of Buildings Records. Resources such as Assessed Valuation Real Estate Ledges. Again these resource is located in the Municipal Archives. If your not to familiar with the neighborhood as I am searching for neighborhood histories might give you a better background for doing research. I found some Google books that can provide backgrounds on neighborhood histories.</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Other Resources:</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The New York Public Library has a number of helpful Research guides that are online to help with your research. Visit the following hyperlink. <a href="https://libguides.nypl.org/househistory">https://libguides.nypl.org/househistory</a></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">New York Municipal Archives Blog:</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2022/1/7/department-of-buildings-manhattan-block-and-lot-collection-1866-1977</p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2021/4/30/building-history-part-2">https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2021/4/30/building-history-part-2</a></span></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"> </p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">You can also contact the <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/about/contact-by-email/contact-recording-documents-general.page"><span style="color: #2954d1;">Division of Land Records</span></a> using their electronic form. <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/about/contact-by-email/contact-recording-documents-general.page">https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/about/contact-by-email/contact-recording-documents-general.page</a></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I have used this electronic form and I am awaiting their reply.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">Bronx County Office: </span>3030 3rd Ave, 2nd floor Bronx, NY 10455<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">Kings County Office:</span> 210 Joralemon Street, 2nd floor Brooklyn NY 11201<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">New York County Office:</span> 66 John Street, 13th floor New York, NY 10038<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">Queens County Office:</span> 144-06 94th Avenue, Jamaica, Queens 11435</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Property deeds for Staten Island are kept at the <a href="https://www.richmondcountyclerk.com/"><span style="color: #2954d1;">Office of the Richmond County Clerk</span></a>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Although I have not been successful as to finding out who own that particular property around the 1920’s. I know that there might be an answer coming soon in my email. I certainly feel that I have learned a lot about how to do property research in New York City.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"> </p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Map Resources</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Base Map of New York City showing street names</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/about/publications/maps/nyc-base-map.pdf">https://www.nyc.gov/assets/planning/download/pdf/about/publications/maps/nyc-base-map.pdf</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Map Collection Brooklyn City</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://mapcollections.brooklynhistory.org/">https://mapcollections.brooklynhistory.org/</a></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Another resource for the history of New York City and it’s neighborhoods can be found below.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px; min-height: 18.4px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p><p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p>
<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The New York City Municipal Archives is a great place to do research. In 2016 they published an authorized guide to the Archives. Although a little old it is still useful and is currently available electronically for purchase from the New York Genealogical and Biological Society. If you are doing a lot of research in New York City this resource is strongly recommended. Chapters 7 thru 9 cover property records.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Prior to 1966, New York City records are in several places an in different formats. Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens records are in the city register office in the borough that the property is located. Brooklyn records are in Queens City Register Office. They are on microfilm. Staten Island records are in the Richmond County Clerk Office.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Property cards existed between 1930 thru 1970. They were designed to assist the Department of Finance with property tax assessments. They give ownership, building classification and assessed valuation. Unfortunately This resource is not going to help me in my search because Property Cards were started in 1930. I am looking for resources covering the 1920-23 period.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The next resource are Business records. License and filings are held by the issuing agency. Older records are held at the state or county archives. In NYC the older records between 1818 - 1938 are held at Division of Old Records, New York County Clerk’s Office and can be reached at 646-386-5395. This seems like the next place to do research for my Grandfather’s bakeries. Of course the business records are arranged by owner. Therefore I will check under my Grandfather’s name as well as my aunt’s husband’s name, John J. Clark. When I contacted the Division of Old Record, I was given an email address to contact the person by email, Jvannost@ <a href="http://nycourts.gov">nycourts.gov</a> and I waiting for a response.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">I know most property record searches are done using deeds. In NYC from 1966 to present there is an electronic database ACRIS, Automated City Register Information System. <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/acris.page">https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/taxes/acris.page</a> of course when we refer to NYC we are covering Manhattan, queens, Brooklyn and Bronx.one can search by lot and lot or by owner. This database would not help me in my research but is useful to know about.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Another resource is the Family Search database which has indexed New York State deeds and indexes up until 1880’s. There are a number of resources available on Family Search that include land records from the United States. The New York Land Records 1630-1975 database is an index that can be searched by property owner’s name, <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_York_Land_and_Property">https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/New_York_Land_and_Property</a>. When I searched this database, I my grandfather or aunt’s husband name did not appear.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Other resources to try include land auction catalogs, real estate tax records, newspapers, census records and Department of Buildings Records. Resources such as Assessed Valuation Real Estate Ledges. Again these resource is located in the Municipal Archives. If your not to familiar with the neighborhood as I am searching for neighborhood histories might give you a better background for doing research. I found some Google books that can provide backgrounds on neighborhood histories.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">The New York Public Library has a number of helpful Research guides that are online to help with your research. Visit the following hyperlink. <a href="https://libguides.nypl.org/househistory">https://libguides.nypl.org/househistory</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2022/1/7/department-of-buildings-manhattan-block-and-lot-collection-1866-1977</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2021/4/30/building-history-part-2">https://www.archives.nyc/blog/2021/4/30/building-history-part-2</a></span></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">You can also contact the <a href="https://www1.nyc.gov/site/finance/about/contact-by-email/contact-recording-documents-general.page"><span style="color: #2954d1;">Division of Land Records</span></a> using their electronic form. <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/about/contact-by-email/contact-recording-documents-general.page">https://www.nyc.gov/site/finance/about/contact-by-email/contact-recording-documents-general.page</a></p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;"><span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">Bronx County Office: </span>3030 3rd Ave, 2nd floor Bronx, NY 10455<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">Kings County Office:</span> 210 Joralemon Street, 2nd floor Brooklyn NY 11201<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">New York County Office:</span> 66 John Street, 13th floor New York, NY 10038<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial-BoldMT; font-weight: bold;">Queens County Office:</span> 144-06 94th Avenue, Jamaica, Queens 11435</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Property deeds for Staten Island are kept at the <a href="https://www.richmondcountyclerk.com/"><span style="color: #2954d1;">Office of the Richmond County Clerk</span></a>.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Although I have not been successful as to finding out who own that particular property around the 1920’s. I know that there might be an answer coming soon in my email. I certainly feel that I have learned a lot about how to do property research in New York City.</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Map Resources</p>
<p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Base Map of New York City showing street names</p>
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<p style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Another resource for the history of New York City and it’s neighborhoods can be found below.</p>
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<p style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 19.5px;"><br /></p>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-70663815784040773642023-09-17T16:11:00.002-07:002023-09-17T17:38:11.878-07:00Property Research in New York City: A Case Study Part 1<p> <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 12px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px;">To me one of the most interesting parts of doing genealogy research is</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px;"> </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px;">the human interest stories we find behind the facts. After Bill Cole</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;">’</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px;">s presentation in January, I started going through some photographs of my mother</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 17px;">’</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px;">s family. I remember looking through them before and wondering why my Aunt Gertrude would have a photograph taken in front of a property for sale sign. I do know that my Aunt was born in 1902 and died in 1923. Looking at this photograph I would guess that the picture was taken between 1920 to 1923.</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px;"> </span></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Looking closer at the sign I noted that the sign listed the realtor, ended up searching the Internet to see if I could fine information on the realtor, Herman Ringe and this revealed part of a story. Ringe was known to the community as a very civic minded person. The Internet revealed a wonderful article about Herman Ringe by the Newtown Historical Society website ( <a href="https://www.newtownhistorical.org/maspeth-history/the-legacy-of-herman-ringe">https://www.newtownhistorical.org/maspeth-history/the-legacy-of-herman-ringe</a> ) Mr. Ringe was very active in his community were he was raised. The area was known as Metropolitan because it was between Fresh Pond Road and Flushing Avenue on both sides of Metropolitan Avenue. Besides growing up in this area his family owned a General Store in the community on the same street as his Real Estate Office. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioonuHN4wbc6vqKFcHl2JK5ti6mI1DunPzX-yFuT1GTrXXaw2j3vI0V1FUb3eLRYnUcBkrvbM7ytMUOhKrsR97YbNNudv6ULj4xnoRh29aCIVWU83Hm4merfat9IhvwGtmPUrwgsrEw2VHlBJ8xVZ0ThxnaZzN8BeTzq9J6HUTPrrhvjx112oBXCmUKlWP/s983/C20FD8AA-CDBD-46FF-B93F-26C246E9A6F5.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="983" data-original-width="558" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioonuHN4wbc6vqKFcHl2JK5ti6mI1DunPzX-yFuT1GTrXXaw2j3vI0V1FUb3eLRYnUcBkrvbM7ytMUOhKrsR97YbNNudv6ULj4xnoRh29aCIVWU83Hm4merfat9IhvwGtmPUrwgsrEw2VHlBJ8xVZ0ThxnaZzN8BeTzq9J6HUTPrrhvjx112oBXCmUKlWP/s320/C20FD8AA-CDBD-46FF-B93F-26C246E9A6F5.jpeg" width="182" /></a></div><br />Herman Ringe first worked in the Queens Tax Office as a clerk and later as secretary to chief clerk to the highway department. In his obituary he was praised as a business man as well as a civic leader. Although this and other articles pointed to the importance of the realtor and the area, it still did not answer my original question as to why my Aunt had her photographed in front of this sign.<p></p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Therefore I decided to continued my investigation by trying to find out who owned the property around the time of the photograph. One of the thoughts that I had was who would have taken the photograph. Was it my Grandfather, Gottlieb Ohnmacht who owned two bakeries at the time. That thought lead me to do a property search to determine who had purchased the property as listed on the sign. I tried both New York City Public Library and Library of Congress Digital Map collections. The Sanborn maps were designed to be large scale maps that showed insurance agencies the fire hazards related to where the buildings were located. They often depicted the structure showing size and shape of buildings and surrounding property and streets. Sanborn designed maps for over twelve thousand cities in United States, Canada and Mexico.</p>
<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Sanborn Fire maps are good resources when doing property searches. They usually have street indexes which lead to plate numbers. Knowing that the photograph was probably taken between 1920 -23. I found a map that showed the specific area. The Atlas 137A of Queens V. 3, 1914 Plate No. 57 [Map bounded by Metropolitan Ave., Fresh Pond Rd., Grove, Prospect Ave.] showed a wagon shed and other structures. One can also see the paper road, Vincent Street designated with dashes as it meets Metropolitan Ave.</p><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44YxNXm3F8B70hwH8kd8jnbJWXkc5xDycdKHhlEJp_V335uYmzVnL6oltY8igy5PcoIf9H5j4eMMswC2RylX_cAbSGbLSrJkJemf69HxlmTOzAwtGl4uUpKVBhLDYPc7j8rErdqEDAoBeTXB-JRm2B2fYnOJ3Ln3e0aYB83NcAaNJcdOGhiXK5edqTDw_/s2224/DC7D7122-F6B2-4C8D-9579-3339639A04EA.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2224" data-original-width="1668" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi44YxNXm3F8B70hwH8kd8jnbJWXkc5xDycdKHhlEJp_V335uYmzVnL6oltY8igy5PcoIf9H5j4eMMswC2RylX_cAbSGbLSrJkJemf69HxlmTOzAwtGl4uUpKVBhLDYPc7j8rErdqEDAoBeTXB-JRm2B2fYnOJ3Ln3e0aYB83NcAaNJcdOGhiXK5edqTDw_/s320/DC7D7122-F6B2-4C8D-9579-3339639A04EA.png" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 17px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;">Unfortunately I haven’t located a more recent Sanborn Map depicting this area around the early 1920’s. In my next part I will discuss other resources that I checked to locate the name of the property owner around this time.</p>
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<p style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #3f3a34; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14.5px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px 0px 12px 40px; text-indent: -40px;">Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division, The New York Public Library. (1884 - 1936). <span face="Helvetica-Oblique" style="font-style: italic;">Queens V. 3, Plate No. 57 [Map bounded by Metropolitan Ave., Fresh Pond Rd., Grove, Prospect Ave.]</span> Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/90df2048-fd72-05a8-e040-e00a18065fd4</p>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-59716754920110496142019-11-04T19:12:00.000-08:002019-11-04T19:12:19.617-08:00Chateau de Lutzelbourg<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">The </span><b style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Château de Lutzelbourg</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> is a medieval castle ruin, above the town of </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottrott" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Ottrott">Ottrott</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">, in the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bas-Rhin" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bas-Rhin">Bas-Rhin</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> department of eastern France (</span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alsace" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Alsace">Alsace</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: , "blinkmacsystemfont" , "segoe ui" , "roboto" , "lato" , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">).</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MinCult_1-0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2); background-image: none; border: 0px; caret-color: rgb(34, 34, 34); color: #222222; font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Lato, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Lutzelbourg#cite_note-MinCult-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[1] </a></sup><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;">Château de Lutzelbourg is a castle founded by Pierre de Lutzelbourg in the eleventh century on a rock high above 322 m the valley of the Zorn in France, Lutzelbourg, Moselle. It is the subject of a classification as historical monuments since February 1930.Pierre's father in Lutzelbourg Frederick Monbéliard is very noble lineage as related to the powerful </span><span class="IL_AD" id="IL_AD2" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-attachment: scroll !important; background-image: none !important; background-position: 0% 50%; background-repeat: repeat repeat !important; border-bottom-color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; border-bottom-style: dotted !important; border-bottom-width: 1px !important; color: rgb(27, 142, 222) !important; cursor: pointer !important; display: inline !important; float: none !important; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 1px !important; position: static; text-align: justify;">House</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: white; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: justify;"> of Savoy. At his death in 1092, the magraviat Susa - as inherited by Agnes de Savoie his wife, daughter of Count Peter I, Count of Savoy - was claimed by the Emperor Henry IV, it can therefore return to Pierre. By Pierre duty must be established on ancestral lands between Philippsburg and the Zorn Valley. 1100 Pierre negotiates the exchange of Saint-Quirin Priory with Lutzelbourg castle of the Abbey of Marmoutier in Alsace. Reginald will be the only son of the union of Pierre and Ita, his death a few days after Christmas 1142 left the county without descendants. The bishop of Metz receives sovereignty in 1150 and gives custody to the first Lords of Lutzelbourg.In 1840 the ruins of the castle of Lutzelbourg were saved from demolition by Adolf Germain, notary in Phalsbourg because the owners wanted to sell the materials of the ruined companies who built the railway line.After several successive sales Eugène Koeberlé, professor of medicine in Strasbourg, bought the site. Around 1900 he decided to consolidate the ruins, to excavate and built the neo-Romanesque hall. In 1909, he published his work in Strasbourg Ruins of Castle Lutzelbourg where it reports its findings and assumption.</span><br />
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The castles of Ottrott were built on the plateau of Elsberg about 500 metres above the surrounding land. Two ruins, separated by barely fifty metres, now stand here: the "Rathsamhausen" on the west of the site and the "Lutzelbourg" in the east.</div>
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Recent excavations uncovered the foundations of a primitive castle between the current ruins of the castles. This primitive castle, named Old Lutzelbourg, was most certainly built before 1076 on the initiative of the counts of Eguisheim solicitors of Hohenbourg's monastery (Sainte-Odile) located some kilometres away.</div>
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This first structure was destroyed by the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Hohenstaufen" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="House of Hohenstaufen">Hohenstaufens</a> at the beginning of the 12th century but was immediately raised again by them to be finally <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enfeoffed" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Enfeoffed">enfeoffed</a> to Conrad de Lutzelbourg in 1196. In 1198, it was destroyed by <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arson" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Arson">arson</a> by the Eguisheim-Dabos.</div>
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The construction of the new castle, known in the middle of the 16th century as "Rathsamhausen", was begun by the beginning of the 13th under <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto,_Duke_of_Burgundy" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Otto, Duke of Burgundy">Otto of Burgundy</a> who had decided to take back control of the region.</div>
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The works must have ended after 1220, the Lutzelbourg being always present on the scene, because in 1230 Elisabeth de Lutzelbourg was appointed abbess of the monastery of Hohenbourg. By the middle of the 13th century the castle presently called "Lutzelbourg" was built just below "Rathsamhausen".</div>
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Plan of Lutzelbourg</div>
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Visitors to the site notice that the defences of "Lutzelbourg" are turned towards its neighbour, always in the hands of the Hohenstaufen. Historians suppose that it was built on the initiative of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Strasbourg" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bishop of Strasbourg">Bishop of Strasbourg</a>, <a class="new" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Henri_de_Stahleck&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #dd3333; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Henri de Stahleck (page does not exist)">Henri de Stahleck</a>, to gain control of the imperial possessions.</div>
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During the works, the defenders of "Rathsamhausen" were not idle and built an impressive <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Keep">keep</a> facing its neighbour.</div>
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By the end of the 13th century, the Hohenstaufen had already lost all their influence on the Empire and some kind of agreement was probably found between <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_I_of_Germany" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Rudolph I of Germany">Rudolph of Habsburg</a>and the episcopal party. In 1392, "Lutzelbourg" was enfeoffed to the counts of <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andlau" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Andlau">Andlau</a> who ceded their rights the following year to the Rathsamhausen-Ehenweiers already in possession of the nearby castle. They undertook to reconstruct both at the beginning of the 15th century.</div>
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"Lutzelbourg" was again destroyed between 1470 and 1570, probably in 1525 during the War of the Boorish, whereas "Rathsamhausen" was successively enfeoffed in 1424 to Henri de Hohenstein and then to his son-in-law, Daniel de <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mullenheim" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Mullenheim">Mullenheim</a>.</div>
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Important <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance_architecture" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Renaissance architecture">Renaissance</a> style renovation works were begun by the Mullenheims between 1520 and 1530. Conrad de Rathsamhausen finally bought back the castle by 1557 from Caspar de Mullenheim.</div>
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It has since been known as "Rathsamhausen", the name it has today. The castle was plundered and ruined during the <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Thirty Years' War">Thirty Years' War</a>.</div>
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The castles of Ottrott are nowadays private property. They have been listed as <span style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_historique" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Monument historique">Monuments historiques</a></span> since 1985.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-MinCult_1-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 0.75em; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Lutzelbourg#cite_note-MinCult-1" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #6b4ba1; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant-caps: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[1</a></sup></div>
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Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-69157870180826396162018-04-20T15:58:00.002-07:002018-04-21T00:03:22.153-07:00Anthony Koferl: A Life of SorrowAt the end of the Civil War, Anthony Koferl was born in October 1864. He was the son of Henry and Amelia Koferl and the brother of my Grandfather, Henry Joseph Koferl. There were seven children born to Henry and Amelia. Anthony known as Tony was one of the seven children and was listed in the 1880 census as a glassworker or glazer is<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glazier" target="_blank"> "<span style="color: #666666; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> </span></a><span style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glazier" target="_blank">a skilled tradesman responsible for cutting, installing, and removing glass."</a> What did that mean in the 19th century"Many Glassworkers learned their trade as an apprentice or from another Glassworker. Anthony's father was listed as a Jeweler on the 1870 Census, so Anthony would have apprenticed with another Glassworker. It is impossible to know of his level of mastery or skills that Anthony possessed. I am not even sure of where he worked. </span></span><a href="http://www.mizahar.com/lore/Glassworking" target="_blank">Glassworking is the main skill of a glass smith. The smith can create lenses, mirrors, dishware, small toys/art pieces, and windows all from his use and knowledge of glassworking. In most cities glass is for the rich and powerful. Gold and silks can be draped about by any fool, but glass is for those who can spend money.</a>"<br />
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Anthony met and married Annie Hoffman in 1892 in Kings County. According to the 1892 census, Anthony was no longer working as a glass worker but rather on a buttonhole machine. They lived on the same block and building as Anthony's parents. At the time of their marriage Anthony was eight years older then Annie. In 1900 they continued to live at 43 Johnson Avenue with their four year old son, John her mother Katie Hoffman and Anthony. According to the 1900 census Annie had four sibblings who predeceseaded her by this time. It also states that Katie Hoffman was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States in 1860 and a widow.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #353a43; font-family: "pt sans"; font-size: 17.6px;">Built in 1875, this four-story waterfront inn had the distinction of being the tiny hamlet’s first big hotel. Destroyed by fire in 1895, the Miamogue was rebuilt two years later and expanded further when its owner, I. Seymour Corwin, purchased and then demolished a smaller neighboring hotel, the Sunnyside House. In 1932, the County Review reported that the Miamogue’s new owners, Henry A. Ramsauer and Henry Koferl, had been charged with second-degree arson for allegedly setting fire to the hotel in order to recover a $50,000 insurance policy. Nobody was injured in the incident, which took place before the hotel opened for the summer season. The Riverhead men were acquitted of the charges in May 1933, possibly because a defense attorney successfully indicated the fire was actually caused by two of the prosecution’s witnesses. The Miamogue Hotel was never rebuilt.</span><br />
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On April 27, 1932 a fire broke out in the attic of the Miamogue
Hotel located in South Jameport, Long Island. Jointly owned by Henry F. Koferl
and Harry A. Ramsauer it was recently purchased by the two plumbers who had a
plumbing business in Riverhead. When firemen entered the fourth story of the
hotel they found a lit candle near some oil soaked debris. Due to the find the
fire was believed to be arson and the two owners were charged with second and
third degree arson. Their lawyer, Harry Saxstien, of Saxstien & Scheinberg,
filed a plea of not guilty and were secretly indicted by a Grand Jury. They
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they held on the hotel from $20,000 to $50,000. Two witnesses to the fire Jack Gerhardt, 40 of Riverside, and William Janis, 16 of Riverhead did not claim to know what started the fire were taken into custody at a local jail. They were released in May of that year after they had waived immunity rights and agreed to testify in front of a grand jury.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-49284357347549412762017-11-21T19:05:00.001-08:002017-11-30T21:00:43.251-08:00Lindenhurst Jewelry Store<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My grandparents Anna and Henry Joseph Koferl in 1921 bought several lots of property in the village of Lindenhurst where they ran two stores Jewelry and Cigar right next to one another. It was on the south side of Hoffman Ave on the west side of Wellwood Ave. According to the deed dated May 19, 1921 it was described as block number 43 lot 5 and 6. Below is a tax map showing the property. My father was 7 when they purchased the stores. He often reminisced crawling through a connecting closet between both stores. The businesses didn’t last long due to my grandfather falling ill when working on the house roof fell and damaged his heart muscles leading to his death in 1923. He died at home on the fifth of November. According to the obituary my grandfather started the business in 1914.<br />
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I am now interested in locating any photographs of the stores. My next stop is the town historian. I contacted the Town historian, Mary Cascone. She suggested I look through the Village Historical Society photo albums, especially the business volume. So off I go tomorrow hopefully to visit the Historical Society.<br />
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Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-46488323361871362312017-01-03T20:11:00.000-08:002019-11-04T14:45:47.728-08:00Two Brothers Went To War<div class="p1" style="color: #454545; font-family: ".sf ui text"; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">My Grandmother, Gertrude Ohnmacht had two half brothers that were involved in World War I. They fought for the Kaiser in the Prussian Royal Army. Both of the brothers were single and living at home in Neuhaeusel where their parents Jean Grossholtz and Katharine Phillips lived.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Aloyse was born on August 16 or 19, 1892 and his brother George’s was born March 22, 1895 both births took place in Neuhaeusel where they were Baptized at St. Luc’s.</span><br />
<span style="clear: right; font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;">Aloyse<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOAp0kWc74SrgZBDxePkw3KSs1-Ei99rx48tYzg5U8wqd20ndu9zBpz_7_9FIun9x2HXc-fR4KrbUQ7FYqii_LOhdXUN_9hMxdvXSFYusa62kdNw9suhSL4w2vh5ZH0ol0DXIgLDmxCosJ/s1600/ED3FFFC5-EFEC-4930-B668-D1E467BF9BDC.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"> was a civil engineer student before the war. During the war he was sapper of the second company in the first Royal Prussian Engineering Battalion established in Hanover (number 10). “He died on January 4th according to the register or on January 5th according to the same monument, of the year 1915. According to the death certificate, he died in Berry-au-Bac, a small village which is today in Aisne (Picardy) which was at the heart of the fighting during the First World War. Indeed, the Front, from the Somme to Switzerland, crossed the small town. It is also in the area that we began digging the first trenches. On the 5th of January, 1915, at Berry-au-Bac, the seventh German army with the twelfth army corps fought the fifth and sixth infantry divisions of the French army in stationary battles in trachea. The time of death could not be determined. He was twenty-two years old at the time of his death.”</a> </span><a href="http://www.memorialgenweb.org/memorial3/html/fr/complementter.php?id=1658388" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: #e4af0a; font-size: 12pt;">http://www.memorialgenweb.org/memorial3/html/fr/complementter.php?id=1658388</span></a></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; font-size: 12pt;">A Sapper, also called pioneer or combat engineer, is a combatant or soldier who performs a variety of military engineering duties such as breaching, demolitions, bridge-building, laying or clearing minefields, field defenses as well as building, road and airfield construction and repair. They are also trained to serve as infantry personnel in defensive and offensive operations. A sapper's duties are devoted to tasks involving facilitating movement, defence and survival of allied forces and impeding those of enemies. To the right is a photograph of a Sapper soldier with the Prussian Army.</span></div>
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Georges Grossholtz was Aloyse’s younger brother. Before the war he lived in Neuhaeusel and worked as an assistant to a farmer. He was a rifleman in the Prussian Royal Regiment of Rifle Guards. This regiment based in Berlin was composed of soldiers from all over the Empire. E died on July 6, 1916 during the battle of Somme five days after the start from fighting between the French and English against the Germans. The battle left a death toll off 500,000 people. According to a letter received from his captain Georges died in a small town known as Ovillers-La-Boisselle.<br />
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This is a memorial found in the center of Neuhaeusel dedicated to the memory of the men who perished during WWI and WWII from the town.</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy73FfkB3YXuR8rFOWK_UUaat1K41B1SeF7myZ2jXDfbK-lF1LZkYJsXrXLE98Y-Egjy6A38gAEptxFhJt5z4WPvJfQLC3cwXmZlb9WHYBfMFt4he6qzUD4WBbDTCim8KRku3PjIT3S5ed/s1600/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="112" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy73FfkB3YXuR8rFOWK_UUaat1K41B1SeF7myZ2jXDfbK-lF1LZkYJsXrXLE98Y-Egjy6A38gAEptxFhJt5z4WPvJfQLC3cwXmZlb9WHYBfMFt4he6qzUD4WBbDTCim8KRku3PjIT3S5ed/s200/Our-Lady-of-Perpetual-Help1.jpg" width="200" /></a>Now that Christmas is almost upon us memories come streaming back of my mother, Ottilia Theresa Ohnmacht and her love of roasted chestnuts. She really loved the holidays and introduced her family to many traditions from her past and new ones that she started for her own family. The picture to the left is of my mother when she was a child growing up in New York City.<br />
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At age 15 she moved to Lindenhurst where she met my father Joseph Henry Koferl. Their first date was a double date with some friends and they went to the 1939 World's Fair. Her girlfriend coached my mother on what to say and do when the subject of paying for entrance fees came up. They were married on September 1, 1940 in the rectory of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Lindenhurst, NY. On December 7, 1941 they moved into a Summer bungalow and made that there permanent home. This is where they celebrated all but one of their Christmas together. My mother would recount the story of how they had very little money and she managed to buy a pair of slippers for my father only to have the mailman announce to my father that he was getting a pair of slippers.<br />
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My mother grew up in a bakery but learned most of her baking and cooking skills when she was an adult. Her mother died when she was seven and her father when she was 20 years old. She would often ask our family friend Kenneth the Baker how to make a specific recipe. That is how she got her recipes for fruitcake and pfeffernusse cookies. Today my brother Steve still bakes the fruitcake at Christmas time.I have memories of our helping out with the baking and bringing platters of cookies to the neighbors and relatives. One time Mom left my older brother Joe and myself at home charged with the responsibility of baking some Snickerdoodle cookies. We started baking the cookies off but found out that we were enjoying eating them as much as baking them. Other cookies that my mother made for the holidays were the Candy cane, Rainbow, butter and cream cheese cookies. My mother would start preparing for Christmas in November when she would prepare her fruit cake and soak the cake with Peach Brandy. Then they were stored in the cooler on the porch were they would age for a month before they were given out at Christmas. The coolers were located in the game closet and often we would play hide and seek on a rainy day and I would hide in the closet. The fantastic aroma of the fruitcake with its Peach Brandy would come wafting up while I waited to be found.<br />
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On Christmas eve we would wait for Santa to come and each member of the household would take their turn opening up gifts after Santa had delivered them. It took hours to open up our presents because of this process but we learned to appreciate the gifts and the gift giving more because of this. Our stocking gifts were either saved till Christmas day or Little Christmas and we looked forward to receiving these gifts with just as much anticipation as we would have for our big gifts. One of my favorite gifts was chocolate Holland shoes which tasted wonderful. One year I left my box of chocolate under the tree forgetting about the dogs we had who roamed the house at their own discretion. When we came back from visiting relatives I found the dog under the tree with the empty candy box.<br />
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Another tradition that we had at Christmas time was decorating the house . We children were responsible for decorating the basement. That meant that we had to clean it and then put up a small Christmas tree and decorate the wooden fireplace with red brick crepe paper. Sometimes we would make paper chains to hang on the tree or from the ceiling. One year Steve and I got to take home the live tree from our classroom and we carried it home from school. One year we didn't spend our lunch money for food at school and used the money to buy a snow village for our basement tree. This brings back memories of my father who would take Steve and I out shopping to buy ornaments for our tree. He would also buy small gifts for us which he had hand selected.<br />
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While we were waiting for the Christ child to come, my Mother would celebrate Advent with an Advent calendar. The calendars were from Germany and each day one of us would take a chance reading the rhyme then guessing what would be behind the window. It was a nice way to get in the spirit of the holiday.<br />
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These are my memories of my Mother especially at Christmas time.<br />
<br />Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-37995872752945207872016-11-18T13:59:00.001-08:002016-11-28T15:43:05.580-08:00The Family Dynasty and Madame Tussard<br />
<span style="line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The first executioner in the family was C<a href="http://www.zug4you.ch/was_the_last_executioner_related_to_tussaud_.html" target="_blank">unrat Grossholz, who was originally a knacker in Zurich. From 1473, the familyGrossholz served over generations as executioners in Zurich, and one of the first persons they executed was Hans Waldmann, on 6 April 1489. Some Grossholzs moved to Baden and Winterthur, and to Alsace and Germany, where they also became executioners. </a></span></span><br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Waldmann_(mayor)" style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">Hans Waldmann (1435 - 6 April 1489)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;">was mayor of Zurich</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span style="color: black;"> </span></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Waldmann_(mayor)" target="_blank">and Swiss military leader. The son of apeasant in Zug, he married well and became Squire of Dubelstein. Waldmann leadthe Confederates in the Burgundian Wars defeating Charles the Bold with an armyestimated at 12,000 men. As mayor of Zurich and a representative of theoligarchs in the Confederacy, Waldmann sought to impose higher taxes onneighboring rural villages which, taken together with a disdain for his reputedaristocratic excesses, led to a peasant revolt.[2] 500 peasants from Knonau aresaid to have toppled Waldmann as mayor in 1489. Waldmann was beheaded on April6, 1489 following accusations of financial corruption, foreign connections andsodomy!</a></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnKdRXH1PHlDfrzovnt1OGET5jR3D2d6rq1keHrJY5UCRNq06iFWPrKovaOyIW6puAL50BqD3DJCeGVkcCTkpk7V9i1O8uTuB7up52vZwW2J1YhCW295jx-EKz5kdD6-pHwL2eYaOki05k/s1600/Marie_Tussaud.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnKdRXH1PHlDfrzovnt1OGET5jR3D2d6rq1keHrJY5UCRNq06iFWPrKovaOyIW6puAL50BqD3DJCeGVkcCTkpk7V9i1O8uTuB7up52vZwW2J1YhCW295jx-EKz5kdD6-pHwL2eYaOki05k/s1600/Marie_Tussaud.jpg" /></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is unbelievable! Not only did I have a line of executioners in my family but I am also related to Madame Tussard, the wax sculpture and inventor of the wax museum. It seems we have a common relative in our family who was Cunrat or Conrad Grossholz. It seems that "knacker" is a slang word for executioner or killer. Anna Marie Grosholz was baptised in St Pierre Le Vieux Church in Strasbourg on December 7, 1761. Her father Johann Joseph Grosholz who was born on February 16, 1716 was present at her baptism. Johann Joseph who entered the military was born in to Jakob Johann Grosholz an executioner who was by no means poor. His job including killing sick animals, whipped deviants, and made use of the gallows. Johann Joseph replaced his cousin Hans Michel in 1756 and retired in 1761. Anna Marie wanted to separate her self from the stigma that her family endured. Executioners were considered untouchables by society. She relied on her Grandmothers good name for she was Eslie Barbara Fuchs the daughter of a rector, Johann Fuchs Von Rogensburg. This was very unusual for an executioner to marry above his class. </span>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-1080328786519454572016-11-14T17:07:00.002-08:002016-11-15T17:30:40.864-08:00My Godmother, Aunt Erwina<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Erwina Hagen was born on June 5, 1900 in Austria. At the time that she immigrated to America her father, Ferdinand Hagen lived in <span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">Lauterach which a village </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">in the district of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bregenz_(district)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Bregenz (district)">Bregenz</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> in the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Austria">Austrian</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> state of </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorarlberg" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Vorarlberg">Vorarlberg</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">. </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consul_(representative)" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Consul (representative)">Honorary consulates</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> of </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Finland">Finland</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">, and the </span><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #5a3696; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">are located in Lauterach. Er</span><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14px;">wina was born in the same village. Before Erwina came to America she worked as a a servant in Bregenz. </span></span><br />
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<a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bregenz" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Bregenz</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">is the capital of </span><span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Vorarlberg</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">, the westernmost </span><span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">federal state</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> of </span><span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Austria</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">. The city is located on the eastern shores of </span><span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Lake Constance</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">, the third-largest freshwater lake in Central </span><span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Europe</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">, between </span><span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Switzerland</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;"> in the west and </span><span style="color: #5a3696; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "helvetica" , "nimbus sans l" , "arial" , "liberation sans" , sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); line-height: inherit;">Germany </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px;">in the northwest.</span></span></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW0vLaeN-AZecdak3LNVm7SPA7nefNsjx-WTPm5BM1QN_TFpJsN73RvXYSxBc85kQ32sXdsvMUQ7SpSQOYj7ZdSDmfDQxeDrE5iwuH3wDJdTrl4YIpSNfk23SbqPMiUfX1TuCj7EqxKfbs/s1600/%2524_35.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW0vLaeN-AZecdak3LNVm7SPA7nefNsjx-WTPm5BM1QN_TFpJsN73RvXYSxBc85kQ32sXdsvMUQ7SpSQOYj7ZdSDmfDQxeDrE5iwuH3wDJdTrl4YIpSNfk23SbqPMiUfX1TuCj7EqxKfbs/s1600/%2524_35.JPG" /></a><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The ship that she came over on was the Mount Clay and it sailed on November 30, 1922, headed for the Port of New York. <span style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px;"><a href="http://www.gjenvick.com/HistoricalBrochures/Multi-Line/1924-02-01-PassageRegulationsToNorthAmerica-1924.html#axzz4Q8AZwJjx" target="_blank">The S. S. "Mount Clay", formerly the German S. S. "Prinz Eitel Friedrich", is a fine modern twin -screw steamer of 8200 tons, and has been specially adapted for the conveyance of about 99 "Cabin Class" and 1006 Third Class passengers. The Cabin Class passengers have at their disposal a separate Promenade Deck situated amidships, Dining Saloon, Social Hall and Smoking Room. The Third Class passengers are also provided with a number of social rooms, and the equipment includes numerous bath rooms with hot and cold sea water.</a> Aunt Erwina probably traveled third class.</span></span><br />
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Quirin is the French version of the German name Quirinus. Quirin was born in Lutzelbourg on July 13, 1809. Lutzelbourg is a commune in the Moselle department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France. It is located on the Marne-Rhine Canal as shown in the photograph. The Grosholtz family had resided in Lutzelbourg since 1680. Lutzelbourg is now part of Alsace-Lorraine since <b>Alsace</b>-<b>Lorraine</b> was the name given to the 5,067 square miles (13,123 square km) of territory that was ceded by France to Germany in 1871 after the Franco-German War.<br />
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Quirin's father, Georges Grossholtz was a farmer. He passed down his trade to his son. Quirin was the fifth child born to Marie Madeleine Cler and Georges Grossholtz. They had five daughters and two sons. The family moved from Lutzelbourg to Neuhaeusel between 1813 to 1820. Joseph worked as a Customs Officer in Neuhaeusel while Quirin worked as a farmer.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWl7ImeSPI0R14xsMwtDcSbghRyLO1z6E9NLlUbNBE2vGEHt65ouT5zRrBSCBInDaKIS-pyaKgI2-Kit09ywukT97xr_Cl5w9e7vuE-L7K2pyd1scpG2HCnOYxd-2F4bWFFg7qOQL3ZLjC/s1600/Neuhaeusel%252C_%25C3%2589glise_Saint-Luc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWl7ImeSPI0R14xsMwtDcSbghRyLO1z6E9NLlUbNBE2vGEHt65ouT5zRrBSCBInDaKIS-pyaKgI2-Kit09ywukT97xr_Cl5w9e7vuE-L7K2pyd1scpG2HCnOYxd-2F4bWFFg7qOQL3ZLjC/s320/Neuhaeusel%252C_%25C3%2589glise_Saint-Luc.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">The origins of the Neuhaeusel dates back to the end of the eighteenth century. In 1720, the municipality was known under the name of Neuhof and was in possession of the lords of Fleckenstein. In 1725 it appeared under the name of Neuhaeusel. The village population was between a 181 to 280 people at the time that the Grosholtzs move to Neuhaeusel. </span><a href="http://memim.com/neuhaeusel.html" target="_blank">The early inhabitants of Neuhaeusel played a decisive role in the construction of the Vauban fortress Fort -Louis, by producing bricks and tiles and delivered. The village church of St. Luke ( Église Saint- Luc ) was constructed in 1724 on the foundations of an old chapel. Until the mid- 20th century, the inhabitants of the village lived mainly on fishing and inland shipping.</a><br />
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<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/mac/History/papers/agriculture.shtml" target="_blank">By the mid 1800s they saw changes within rural France. Although agriculture was a dominant occupation, one can see the emergence of new kinds of professions. Through work with censuses of the period, one sees that as the population increased so did the number of craftsmen and merchants. The percentages of people in agriculture decreased due to these changes.</a> <a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/mac/History/papers/agriculture.shtml" target="_blank">One of the reasons why the agricultural community may have decreased was the straying of the youth. Often times a farm was passed down from generation to generation. The younger generations would take on the responsibilities that their parents had. </a><br />
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<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/mac/History/papers/agriculture.shtml" target="_blank">Another question arose from the census: what specific occupations made up the broad agricultural group? Most importantly was the proprietor; this was the land owner of the group. Then came the cultivator; this person was a peasant who owned some land and may also have rented some. Third, the fermier was a tenant farmer. The manoeuvrier was a landless or land-poor farmer that had to also work for wages. Last, the wage workers were day laborers that worked on the richer farms.</a> Quirin was listed in his children's birth certificates as both a cultivator and a plougher during his lifetime.<br />
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According to an article entitled, "History and Statistics: Patterns of Family and community Life in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century France" written by Robert Schwartz and Harriet Pollatsek. I<a href="https://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/mac/History/papers/agriculture.shtml" target="_blank">n the past, artisans could not live on their trade alone; they also had to work as wage workers on farms. This had changed with the industrialization and the modernization of fanning. Now there were things needed on the farm that the artisans could provide. The artisans were no longer part-time wage workers on the farm</a>.<br />
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According to the Wikipedia article on "The Economic History on France", <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_history_of_France" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: sans-serif; line-height: 22.4px;">"</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">The French Revolution (1794 - 1799) abolished many of the constraints on the economy that had emerged during the old regime. It abolished the guild system as a worthless remnant of feudalism."</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[8]</span></span></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> It also abolished the highly inefficient system of tax farming, whereby private individuals would collect taxes for a hefty fee." It </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">abolished tithes owed to local churches as well as feudal dues owed to local landlords. The result hurt the tenants, who paid both higher rents and higher taxes.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[11]</span></span></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;"> It nationalized all church lands, as well as lands belonging to royalist enemies who went into exile. It planned to use these seized lands to finance the government by issuing </span><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 22.4px;">assignats</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; line-height: 22.4px;">. With the breakup of large estates controlled by the Church and the nobility and worked by hired hands, rural France became permanently a land of small independent farms. The rural proletariat and nobility both gave way to the commercial farmer.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><span style="color: #0b0080;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">[12]</span></span></sup></span></a><br />
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For over 200 years the Grossholtz or Grosholtz family worked as executioners in France and Germany. Often the children would follow in the father's footsteps. This is how the family dynasty came about. As far as I can tell the family lived in the village of Landser where the first executioner resided.<br />
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The village of Landser is a small french village located north east of France. The town of Landser is located in the department of Haut-Rhin of the french region Alsace. The town of Landser is located in the township of Sierentz part of the district of Mulhouse. Wernhard Grosholtz or Werlin was born on April 30, 1600 in Mullhouse and died in 1651. He was an executioner between 1629 thru 1640 in Landser and in Freidburg from 1644 thru 1651 when he died at the age of 51. When Werlin moved to Freidburg, his son Martin Grosholtz, who was born in 1622 in Landser took over the executioners position from 1640 until his death in 1640. <br />
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The travel distance between Landser and Freidburg was approximately three days by horse and wagon. One might assume that an increase in salary might have been the reason for moving the family a distance from Landser. <span style="background-color: white; color: black; display: inline; float: none; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , "verdana" , "bitstream vera sans" , sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://www.livablecities.org/articles/freiburg-city-vision" target="_blank">Freiburg’s location at a major crossing point of north-south and east-west trading routes made the city an important market center in the middle ages. This accounted for the broad market street, Kaiser Johann Strasse, and several smaller market squares, such as the Potato Market, “Kartoffel Markt”.</a><span style="font-family: "times new roman";"> Jean-Jacques was born in Freiburg im Breisgau, a vibrant university city in southwest Germany’s Black Forest, is known for its temperate climate and reconstructed medieval old town, crisscrossed with picturesque little brooks (bächle). In the surrounding highlands, hiking destination Schlossberg hill is linked to Freiburg by a funicular. Featuring a dramatic 116m spire, the Gothic cathedral Freiburg Minster towers over the central square Münsterplatz Meaning & History. </span></span></span><br />
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For over one hundred years the Grosholtz family held the position of executioner in Lutzelbourg. The distance between Freiburg and Lutzelbourg is approximately 150 km or 93 miles. It would take approximately 3 days to travel this distance. Halve these distances for a horse pulling a cart or for a very heavily laden horse. Approximately it would have taken Werlein Grossholtz to travel with his family to Lutzelbourg from Freiburg about six days. This was a tremendous move for the family. As far as I can tell the family lived in Freiburg till around 1680. Werlin married Maria Schaeffler on August 20, 1629 in Mullhouse. This was Werlin's second marriage. His first wife, Anna Scherrer died at a young age. Werlin and Anna had one child a boy by the name of Martin. Werlin's second wife died also after a year of marriage. Werlin married Maria Mengis in Freiburg in 1635,Their six children were born in Freiburg, Elizabeth born 1635 and Anna Maria born on 1640.A son Jakob was born in 1644. Jean-Jacques was born on 1646. Two more daughters Elizabeth in 1649, and Katharina in 1651 were born to the couple. Jean-Jacques was born Hans Jacob in German on May 30, 1646, Hans was the shorter version of Johannes and Jacob was the German name for Jacque. He was appointed executioner for Lutzelbourg from 1680 to 1712.<br />
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Jean-Michel Grosholtz
born in 1688 to Hans-Jakob Grossholz took over his father's place as executioner for Lutzelbourg in 1712 after Hans-Jakob's death. He retired from this position and transferred his reins to his son,
Jean-Georges Grosholtz. Jean-George who worked as an executioner until
1787 upon his death. His name sake and son,
Jean-Georges Grosholtz
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Strasbourg is the ultimate European city. It has flavours of both France and Germany, and sits right on the border of the two countries. Geographically strategic, it was fought over for centuries between the French and Germans and Alsace and Lorraine.
Some of the Grosholtz family served dual terms as executioners in Lutzelbourg and Strasbourg. They were Jean-Michel Grosholtz 1670-1686
Jean-Melchior Grosholtz
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Jean-Michel Grosholtz
1691-1724. Two were serving individual terms and they were
Jean-Joseph Grosholtz
1756-1761
Valentin Grosholtz
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As a professional you were expected to commit a quick and clean execution. Often the executioner was killed because he was not professional. Executioners weren't treated well by the towns people. It was typical that the eldest son inherited the position and younger brothers waited for a position in a nearby village to open up. Daughter married sons of executioners and that is how dynasties were built. Laws would govern how an executioner would live from where they lived to which building they could enter and who they could touch. Executioners were restricted from living in the town and usually lived on the outskirts. They could only attend church in a designated pew or come in the town to perform their duties. Some of the benefits that executioners were afforded were the following; they were allowed to clean cesspools and keep what ever they found, they could keep stray animals, carcasses that were abandoned including the hide, also they were allowed to levy taxes on prostitutes, etc. Executioners would receive food and other products that vendors would bring into the city through the city gates. These gifts were meant to ease the executioner feelings of being snubbed.. Most executioners were educated and literate including knowledge of local justice system, order and rituals as well as the role that he plays within the system. Most executioners education includes human anatomy and were often used in place of a doctor when one wasn't available. Public executioners who performed their job by sword, fire or wheel had to look professional while performing their job. They would become masters of torture used to interrogation.<br />
Before an execution they would begin practicing with gourds and pumpkins. Then graduate to small animals like goats and pigs. The final step is executing domestic animals. <br />
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Many of the villages were small surrounded by stone walls to keep the bandits out of the town. Forests and meadows surrounded these villages. With only a few people from the town to ward off these bandits the villages were at the mercy of the robbers. Occasionally soldiers were brought in to protect the villages.Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-64063458647103202122016-10-27T14:27:00.002-07:002016-11-08T17:55:09.530-08:00Jean-Georges Grossholtz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bickenholtz is a commune in the Moselle department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in northeastern France. In the 18th century there was a Mennonite commune there and one at Buchenhof, and another at Schwabenhoff. The area of this town is 608 acres. </span>In 962, when <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_the_Great" title="Otto the Great">Otto the Great</a> restored the Empire (<i>restauratio imperii</i>), Lorraine became the autonomous <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duchy_of_Lorraine" title="Duchy of Lorraine">Duchy of Lorraine</a> within the Holy Roman Empire until 1766, after which it became annexed under succession law to France, via derivative aristocratic house alliances.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> </span>On 30 October 1717 Jean-Georges Grossholtz and his twin brother, Jean-Pierre was born in this small town of Bickenholtz. Their parents Jean-Michel Grossholtz who was born in 1688 and mother Marie Catherine Schild was born in 1700. Their father Jean-Michel was a public executioner in Lutzelbourg a commune in the Moselle department in Alsace-Champagne-Ardenne-Lorraine in north-eastern France. It is located on the Marne-Rhine Canal, near where the twins were born. Lutzelbourg is located just over three kilometers from <a href="http://www.france-voyage.com/cities-towns/phalsbourg-21220.htm" rel="nofollow">Phalsbourg</a>, surrounded by no less than four hills. Lutzelbourg is named after the Middle High German Lutzel burg, meaning small castle. The village had indeed once a castle perched 322 meters above sea level. Lutzelbourg and has the same etymology as the city of Luxembourg in the Grand Duchy of the same name.Former stronghold of the Middle Ages, the village of Lutzelbourg still has several remains of this rich era. Founded in the eleventh century by Pierre de Lutzelbourg on a rocky promontory at 322 meters altitude, the castle overlooks the Lutzelbourg Zorn valley and the village. Classified historic monument, it remains today only ruins with an incredible panorama. It is still possible to admire a large square tower built in the twelfth century, 24 meters high and various walls and other doors.<br />
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In the village of Lutzelbourg, you can admire two beautiful churches in the typical architecture of the Zorn valley. The Church of St. Michael, built in the eighteenth century with stones Castle Lutzelbourg, replaced the old early seventeenth century. Stained glass windows, broken during World War II, were replaced in the early 50. Lutzelbourg village also has a beautiful Protestant church, built between 1907 and 1909. Of great simplicity, it was built in link in memory of the great musician Albert Schweitzer. On the territory of the municipality are also the remains of an ancient farm, recalling the glorious past of Lutzelbourg, as well as traces of a Roman tower.<br />
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The Jean-Georges lived in Lutzelbourg all of his life where he died at age 70 in 1787. At age 2 the twin's sister Marie Ursule Grossholtz was born and two years later another sister Marie Elisabeth was born on 02 March 1722. Another set of twin boys were born to the family on 03 March 1724. Their names were Jean Michel and Frederic. At Age nine Jean-George's sister Anne Catherine Grossholtz was born the day after Christmas in 1726. At the age of 11 Jean-Georges mother gave birth to another daughter, Marguerite Grossholtz on December 29. One year later in November his sister Anne Catherine passed. In those days it was a tradition when you lost a daughter or son you would name with the same name. On January 29, 1731 the birth of a new daughter gave Jean-Georges parents and opportunity to name their new daughter Anne Catherine. Another brother, Jean Paul was born on July 3, 1733. When the twins turned 16 their second sister called Anne Catherine died in 1733 at the age of two. By 1735 Jean-Georges married Marie-Madeline Schild. At age 25 his first daughter Marie Madeleine Agnes was born in 1743. As far as I can tell he separated from his first wife and married Marie Barbe Stoeckel on January 8, 1743. The couple had one child a girl born in 1744 and baptized Anne Marie. Marie Barbe Stoeckel died on November 10, 1744.<br />
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Jean-Georges married a third time on May 20, 1756 to Barbe Rhein in the commune of Herrlisheim. Herrlisheim is positioned on the rich <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluvium" title="Alluvium">alluvial</a> farmland to the west of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Rhine" title="River Rhine">River Rhine</a>, north of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a>. The town is part of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantons_of_France" title="Cantons of France">canton</a> of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bischwiller" title="Bischwiller">Bischwiller</a> and the district of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haguenau" title="Haguenau">Haguenau</a> and is located on the road from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbourg" title="Strasbourg">Strasbourg</a> to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauterbourg" title="Lauterbourg">Lauterbourg</a> along the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A35_autoroute" title="A35 autoroute">A35</a> motorway . When Jean-Georges was 39 his wife Barbe Rhein gave birth to a son Valentin on February 15, 1757. The name meaning is strength or health. The next year Barbe gave birth to a daughter Catherine on April 20, 1758. Another son, Joseph was born on July 9, 1759. On October 1, 1761 Jean-Michael the twin's father passed away in Lutzelbourg at the age of 73.<br />
<br />Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-38272673173712814302016-03-28T18:08:00.000-07:002016-04-07T20:46:07.517-07:00Theresia Schnepf and Alsace Lorraine<br />
My Great Grandmother Theresia was born in Neuhaeusel, Alsace Lorraine. With the help of a distant relative I was able to find her birth certificate. Theresia was born on December 11, 1853 at 8 am the legitimate daughter of Sebastien Schnepf Junior who was 36 at the time of her birth. Her mother Marie Anne Mathern Schnepf was 38 at the time. The witnesses of her birth were Miss Jean a school teacher also 38 and Frank Martin, 29, a plougher. Both were residents of Neuhaeusel.<br />
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Neuhaeusel is in the Bas Rhin region of Alsace Lorraine. At the time of Theresia's birth Alsace Lorraine was a province of France. By 1871 less then 20 years later it had been taken over by Germany. Nine years later my Great Grandmother Theresia would give birth out of wedlock to a baby girl named Gertrude. Gertrude was born on November 17, 1878 six years after Germany took over Alsace Lorraine. How different their lives were under two different countries. When Gertrude left Alsace Lorraine was still under. German rule. While Gertrude was growing up the government would not allow anyone in the province to teach French. Theaters were not allowed to show French plays. German was spoken and is still spoken by the majority of the residents.<br />
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According to Hansi's book "My Village" life was difficult for the Alsacians. They were not allowed to show there patriotism for France. But the villagers still found ways to celebrate their patriotism through their holidays, culture and customs. Even though local Alsacians lost their jobs to German citizens or were imprisoned if they said anything about the government, they still continued to believe that one day Alsace Lorraine would be retuned to France.<br />
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Although we do not know why Gertrude left Alsace Lorraine at such a young age I do believe that part of the local politics played an important role in her reason for leaving. Gertrude arrived with her friend and cousin Ottilia Grossholtz in 1895. She was just 17 years old, one month before her eighteenth birthday. Gertrude returned to Alsace Lorraine to visit her father and to show off his grandchildren, John and Gertrude in the summer of 1906. Unfortunately she never got back to Neuhaeusel especially after the province was returned to France.<br />
<br />Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-69419604030081070912014-07-05T13:12:00.001-07:002016-03-29T06:17:01.321-07:00Luzenhart<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_wr1QXx9rumKy5AQMQNkK2r6WMuzNq_jrVqzwZVrSdYodyqw3vZd3WB2UytFXnjWN03I2Ey7KMrJ9vK639-ClJA4_AKDg8WHEIBvZLv7tAWjP8_3DmHJh4bkx53CZ4bX5dcuKR6AFm2E/s1600/Eglise_Lutzenhardt_by_GregColl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL_wr1QXx9rumKy5AQMQNkK2r6WMuzNq_jrVqzwZVrSdYodyqw3vZd3WB2UytFXnjWN03I2Ey7KMrJ9vK639-ClJA4_AKDg8WHEIBvZLv7tAWjP8_3DmHJh4bkx53CZ4bX5dcuKR6AFm2E/s1600/Eglise_Lutzenhardt_by_GregColl.jpg" /></a>A number of my relatives were born and raised in Luzenhart and I was lucky to find a good history of the area and community on the web. The history of Luzenharttes back to 8th and 3rd century BC. My family lived in the town around the 1600 through 1700's. The community had remained Catholic during the Reformation when it was under the Austrian rule. During the thirty year war and war of the Palatine, South West Germany suffered tremendously. Villages were burned, people were terrorized and then the plague broke out in the middle of the 17th century. Wurttemberg whose population was 450,000 went down to 100,000. Then once again war broke out when France tried to extend its boundaries. Luzenhart was surrounded by Protestant towns at this time. In 1722 there was a tremendous fire which burned the forest in the Luzenhart area. By 1750 Luzenhart was converted from a farm to a village. There was a rapid rise in the number of basket weavers, broom craftsmen and flint dealers. There was an invasion of the feudal lord in 1784 and in 1789 there was an outbreak of the French Revolution and Wuttemberg joined Austria in the war.Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-4829175848940965572014-06-23T13:53:00.002-07:002016-03-29T06:01:50.559-07:00Frederick K KofferlFrederick K Kofferl was born on October 11, 1871 the third child born to Henry Kofferl and Amelia Fahrenthal Kofferl. According to the 1875 New York State census he resided in Brooklyn on Johnson Street. By 1892 New York State Census he was still residing in Brooklyn on Johnson Street and was working as a Driver. According to the <span style="font-size: medium;">THE EASTERN DISTRICT of BROOKLYN ONLINE DIRECTORY </span><a href="http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Town/Eastern/J.html">His father Henry was listed as a Watchmaker at 182 Johnson Street.</a> <a href="http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Town/Eastern/J.html">Named for General Jeremiah <span style="color: red;">JOHNSON</span>, originally Johnson Road, in 1845, later Johnson Street, </a>A<a href="http://bklyn-genealogy-info.stevemorse.org/Town/Eastern/J.html">fter consolidation of 1855 it changed to Johnson Avenue. Johnson Street was opened in 1831 from Broadway to Bushwick Avenue.</a>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-48730859611406585762014-06-19T10:27:00.002-07:002014-07-05T13:00:01.772-07:00Gottlieb Fiederich Ohnmacht 1843Matthaeus' brother Gottlieb Fiederich was born on August 24, 1843. He was the second oldest child born to Johann Ulrich and Elizabeth Katharina Ohnmacht and was my great grandfather. John Ulrich my great great grandfather worked as a woodcutter or lumberjack in Langenbrand. Around the time that Matthaeus and Gottlieb were born the country was going tharough a process of unification. This started at the end of the 18th century and continued till 1848. <a href="https://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/artandhistory/history/parliamentarism/1800_1848" target="_blank">"Not until the Napoleonic conquests of the early 19th century was the old regime undermined and a comprehensive process of political modernisation set in motion." </a><a href="https://www.bundestag.de/htdocs_e/artandhistory/history/parliamentarism/1800_1848" target="_blank">Reforms in the states of the French-occupied Confederation of the Rhine and a new awareness of the evident inferiority of the old order triggered reformist efforts in other German states, particularly in Prussia. At the same time, resistance against the French occupation contributed to the formation of a German nationalist movement, which not only sought the liberation of the French-occupied areas but also propagated demands for national unification and political self-determination.</a> This was the end of the feudal state system in Germany.<br />
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Gottlieb married Anna Maria Rothfuss who was born in Oberlengenhardt on January 2, 1843. They got married in Langenbrand on Monday, March 29, 1869.<br />
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paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="69:76">village</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2341590688676845"> </span><span dstinfo="53:56" id="ouHighlight__20_22TO53_56" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="20:22">with</span><span id="noHighlight_0.21336397851923305"> </span><span dstinfo="58:62" id="ouHighlight__24_27TO58_62" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="24:27">about</span><span id="noHighlight_0.1895684694411246"> </span><span dstinfo="64:66" id="ouHighlight__29_31TO64_66" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="29:31">500</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7823425321698583"> </span><span dstinfo="68:78" id="ouHighlight__33_42TO68_78" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="33:42">inhabitants</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6167450838396202">.</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7194939567840428"> </span><span dstinfo="81:83" id="ouHighlight__79_81TO81_83" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="79:81">The</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5423132336204386"> </span><span dstinfo="85:89" id="ouHighlight__83_85TO85_89" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="83:85">place</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5683361922142744"> </span><span dstinfo="91:94" id="ouHighlight__87_94TO91_94" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="87:94">owes</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8669004954221773"> </span><span dstinfo="96:98" id="ouHighlight__96_100TO96_98" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="96:100">its</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8867006509061747"> </span><span dstinfo="100:105" id="ouHighlight__102_111TO100_105" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="102:111">origin</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3805180321345535"> to </span><span dstinfo="110:112" id="ouHighlight__113_115TO110_112" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="113:115">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2493146534964018"> </span><span dstinfo="114:123" id="ouHighlight__117_126TO114_123" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="117:126">settlement</span><span id="noHighlight_0.08033790987676936"> </span><span dstinfo="125:130" id="ouHighlight__128_130TO125_130" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="128:130">of the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8564182309199821"> </span><span dstinfo="132:137" id="ouHighlight__132_137TO132_137" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="132:137">Calwer</span><span id="noHighlight_0.03877192951023922"> </span><span dstinfo="139:144" id="ouHighlight__139_144TO139_144" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="139:144">forest</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9152827785513247"> </span><span dstinfo="146:147" id="ouHighlight__146_150TO146_147" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="146:150">by</span><span id="noHighlight_0.02372542585331694"> </span><span dstinfo="149:151" id="ouHighlight__152_154TO149_151" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="152:154">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2863472189957233"> </span><span dstinfo="153:158" id="ouHighlight__156_161TO153_158" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="156:161">counts</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7932853363441055"> </span><span dstinfo="160:161" id="ouHighlight__163_165TO160_161" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="163:165">of</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7157235307552657"> </span><span dstinfo="163:166" id="ouHighlight__167_170TO163_166" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="167:170">Calw</span><span id="noHighlight_0.03347758219352054"> </span><span dstinfo="168:169" id="ouHighlight__172_173TO168_169" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="172:173">in</span><span id="noHighlight_0.565930425508195"> </span><span dstinfo="171:173" id="ouHighlight__175_177TO171_173" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="175:177">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5427878228809431"> </span><span dstinfo="175:178" id="ouHighlight__179_189TO175_178" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="179:189">11th</span><span id="noHighlight_0.38989949080095776"> </span><span dstinfo="180:186" id="ouHighlight__190_190TO180_186" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="190:190">century</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7067035631531207">. </span><span dstinfo="189:195" id="ouHighlight__192_206TO189_195" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="192:206">Halfway</span><span id="noHighlight_0.13069535365241724"> </span><span dstinfo="197:203" id="ouHighlight__208_215TO197_203" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="208:215">between</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9685491281766483"> </span><span dstinfo="205:211" id="ouHighlight__217_222TO205_211" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="217:222">meadows</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6602572289129739"> </span><span dstinfo="213:215" id="ouHighlight__224_226TO213_215" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="224:226">and</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7614182032327534"> </span><span dstinfo="217:227" id="ouHighlight__228_236TO217_227" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="228:236">arable land</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8621879850738505">, i</span><span dstinfo="269:275" id="ouHighlight__300_310TO269_275" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="300:310">nclude</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3931179908289544"> a </span><span dstinfo="279:280" id="ouHighlight__281_282TO279_280" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="281:282">15</span><span id="noHighlight_0.001777426970379914"> </span><span dstinfo="282:291" id="ouHighlight__284_290TO282_291" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="284:290">farmsteads. </span><span dstinfo="310:314" id="ouHighlight__420_430TO310_314" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="420:430">Stone</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5463462929912888"> </span><span dstinfo="316:318" id="ouHighlight__432_434TO316_318" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="432:434">and</span><span id="noHighlight_0.43310526095811574"> </span><span dstinfo="320:325" id="ouHighlight__436_441TO320_325" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="436:441">hedges</span><span id="noHighlight_0.34663760259326465"> </span><span dstinfo="327:330" id="ouHighlight__413_418TO327_330" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="413:418">were</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7784405384973861"> </span><span dstinfo="332:338" id="ouHighlight__443_450TO332_338" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="443:450">created</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3714746004035379"> </span><span dstinfo="340:341" id="ouHighlight__330_332TO340_341" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="330:332">as</span><span id="noHighlight_0.1542347722771772"> </span><span dstinfo="343:352" id="ouHighlight__334_340TO343_352" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="334:340">boundaries</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7601302532038657"> </span><span dstinfo="354:360" id="ouHighlight__342_349TO354_360" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="342:349">between</span><span id="noHighlight_0.35291144948310116"> </span><span dstinfo="362:364" id="ouHighlight__351_353TO362_364" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="351:353">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.10126568007484704"> </span><span dstinfo="366:374" id="ouHighlight__355_370TO366_374" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="355:370">homes w</span><span dstinfo="376:379" id="ouHighlight__372_374TO376_379" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="372:374">ith</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8191389418280158"> </span><span dstinfo="381:383" id="ouHighlight__376_378TO381_383" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="376:378">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6971568893892275"> </span><span dstinfo="385:392" id="ouHighlight__389_400TO385_392" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="389:400">adjacent</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5677498019640605"> </span><span dstinfo="394:399" id="ouHighlight__380_387TO394_399" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="380:387">behind</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3221845070642754"> </span><span dstinfo="401:411" id="ouHighlight__402_411TO401_411" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="402:411">home fields</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5084423730637809">.</span><span id="noHighlight_0.24441578046134793"> </span><span dstinfo="414:417" id="ouHighlight__453_457TO414_417" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="453:457">This</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9849037972094452"> was t</span><span dstinfo="419:425" id="ouHighlight__486_493TO419_425" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="486:493">ypical</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6082278591389343"> </span><span dstinfo="427:428" id="ouHighlight__459_461TO427_428" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="459:461">of</span><span id="noHighlight_0.24675369879628278"> </span><span dstinfo="430:432" id="ouHighlight__463_465TO430_432" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="463:465">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8143614047674184"> </span><span dstinfo="434:441" id="ouHighlight__467_481TO434_441" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="467:481">northern Black Forest</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2873367432132795"> </span><span dstinfo="456:459" id="ouHighlight__495_507TO456_459" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="495:507">form</span><span id="noHighlight_0.1567306071459647"> of </span><span dstinfo="464:473" id="ouHighlight__495_507TO464_473" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="495:507">settlement</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5343532326544116"> </span><span dstinfo="475:476" id="ouHighlight__509_511TO475_476" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="509:511">as</span><span id="noHighlight_0.4918745267761926"> a </span><span dstinfo="480:492" id="ouHighlight__513_525TO480_492" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="513:525">Waldhufendorf</span><span id="noHighlight_0.49816285471077626"> </span><span dstinfo="494:500" id="ouHighlight__527_532TO494_500" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="527:532">retains</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8257783648002854"> </span><span dstinfo="502:508" id="ouHighlight__565_574TO502_508" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="565:574">largely</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6796673205393681"> </span><span dstinfo="510:525" id="ouHighlight__539_553TO510_525" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="539:553">upper Leng Hardt</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8972092506900453"> </span><span dstinfo="527:531" id="ouHighlight__555_557TO527_531" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="555:557">until</span><span id="noHighlight_0.15844067916199495"> </span><span dstinfo="533:537" id="ouHighlight__559_563TO533_537" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="559:563">today</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3400264977766909">.</span></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.schoemberg.de/de/B%C3%BCrger/Unsere-Gemeinde/Ortsteile/Oberlengenhardt" target="_blank"><span dstinfo="0:4" id="ouHighlight__0_9TO0_4" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="0:9">First</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8789536089071279"> </span><span dstinfo="6:15" id="ouHighlight__11_21TO6_15" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="11:21">documented</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7402278659265505"> </span><span dstinfo="17:23" id="ouHighlight__23_31TO17_23" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="23:31">mention</span><span id="noHighlight_0.20028140851993537"> </span><span dstinfo="25:26" id="ouHighlight__33_38TO25_26" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="33:38">is</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7833443390654935"> </span><span dstinfo="28:29" id="ouHighlight__56_57TO28_29" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="56:57">in</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9880223497378859"> </span><span dstinfo="31:33" id="ouHighlight__59_64TO31_33" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="59:64">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3371919179715712"> </span><span dstinfo="35:40" id="ouHighlight__66_77TO35_40" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="66:77">"Codex</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9421413289644502"> </span><span dstinfo="42:54" id="ouHighlight__78_78TO42_54" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="78:78">hirsaugensis"</span><span id="noHighlight_0.4687157044260443"> </span><span dstinfo="56:59" id="ouHighlight__84_86TO56_59" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="84:86">from</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5806778125982233"> </span><span dstinfo="61:63" id="ouHighlight__88_90TO61_63" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="88:90">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.21709144993667756"> </span><span dstinfo="65:68" id="ouHighlight__92_102TO65_68" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="92:102">12th</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9807709947177488"> </span><span dstinfo="70:76" id="ouHighlight__103_103TO70_76" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="103:103">century</span><span 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srcinfo="145:148">von</span><span id="noHighlight_0.41064744124138463"> </span><span dstinfo="116:119" id="ouHighlight__150_151TO116_119" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="150:151">Calw</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3331262416175226"> </span><span dstinfo="121:122" id="ouHighlight__153_155TO121_122" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="153:155">to</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9593777731304268"> </span><span dstinfo="124:126" id="ouHighlight__157_163TO124_126" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="157:163">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.394480008858307"> </span><span dstinfo="128:136" id="ouHighlight__165_170TO128_136" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="165:170">monastery</span><span id="noHighlight_0.993805554312441"> of </span><span dstinfo="141:146" id="ouHighlight__172_181TO141_146" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="172:181">Hirsau</span><span id="noHighlight_0.4434772233926397"> </span><span dstinfo="148:149" id="ouHighlight__186_186TO148_149" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="186:186">is</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6146667960416807"> </span><span dstinfo="151:156" id="ouHighlight__183_185TO151_156" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="183:185">listed</span><span id="noHighlight_0.20152282966026325"> </span><span dstinfo="158:159" id="ouHighlight__108_110TO158_159" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="108:110">in</span><span id="noHighlight_0.10916752437721128"> </span><span dstinfo="161:163" id="ouHighlight__112_114TO161_163" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="112:114">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.25929907337442154"> </span><span dstinfo="165:180" id="ouHighlight__40_54TO165_180" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="40:54">upper Leng Hardt</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8727852626184869">. in </span><span dstinfo="186:189" id="ouHighlight__188_191TO186_189" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="188:191">1603</span><span id="noHighlight_0.28495908359476213"> </span><span dstinfo="191:192" id="ouHighlight__199_200TO191_192" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="199:200">it</span><span id="noHighlight_0.024443257848776545"> </span><span dstinfo="194:196" id="ouHighlight__193_197TO194_196" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="193:197">was</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2899026492111999"> </span><span dstinfo="198:201" id="ouHighlight__290_290TO198_201" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="290:290">sold</span><span id="noHighlight_0.44703649854491134"> </span><span dstinfo="203:204" id="ouHighlight__202_204TO203_204" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="202:204">by</span><span id="noHighlight_0.17524946102238648"> </span><span dstinfo="206:208" id="ouHighlight__206_214TO206_208" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="206:214">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3553325078300769"> owner</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2713352078137044">,</span><span id="noHighlight_0.564553238263793"> </span><span dstinfo="222:224" id="ouHighlight__230_239TO222_224" paragraphname="paragraph2" srcinfo="230:239">the</span><span 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<a href="http://www.schoemberg.de/de/B%C3%BCrger/Unsere-Gemeinde/Ortsteile/Oberlengenhardt" target="_blank"><span dstinfo="0:15" id="ouHighlight__0_14TO0_15" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="0:14">Upper Leng Hardt</span><span id="noHighlight_0.11098541243296445"> </span><span dstinfo="17:18" id="ouHighlight__16_18TO17_18" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="16:18">is</span><span id="noHighlight_0.3694178985542044"> </span><span dstinfo="20:24" id="ouHighlight__20_24TO20_24" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="20:24">today</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9222371601850114"> a </span><span dstinfo="28:34" id="ouHighlight__26_34TO28_34" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="26:34">popular</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2776509725589137"> </span><span dstinfo="36:53" id="ouHighlight__36_46TO36_53" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="36:46">tourist attraction</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6538411325148846"> </span><span dstinfo="55:57" id="ouHighlight__48_50TO55_57" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="48:50">for</span><span id="noHighlight_0.93660781072501"> </span><span dstinfo="59:64" id="ouHighlight__52_62TO59_64" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="52:62">hiking</span><span id="noHighlight_0.15761964134431477"> </span><span dstinfo="66:68" id="ouHighlight__64_66TO66_68" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="64:66">and</span><span id="noHighlight_0.1445543029723339"> </span><span dstinfo="70:74" id="ouHighlight__68_79TO70_74" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="68:79">walks</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5280878511515017">,</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7505367249970491"> </span><span dstinfo="77:78" id="ouHighlight__86_88TO77_78" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="86:88">it</span><span id="noHighlight_0.1776414089630331"> </span><span dstinfo="80:82" id="ouHighlight__82_84TO80_82" paragraphname="paragraph4" srcinfo="82:84">has</span><span id="noHighlight_0.19931277243985235"> </span><span dstinfo="84:88" id="ouHighlight__111_121TO84_88" paragraphname="paragraph4" 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The meaning of the name Rothfuss is as follows:<br />
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<li><a href="http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/rothfuss" target="_blank">German: from Middle High German <i>rōt</i> ‘red’ + <i>vuoz</i> ‘foot’, a
nickname for someone who followed the fashion for shoes made from a type of fine
reddish leather.
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<li><a href="http://genealogy.familyeducation.com/surname-origin/rothfuss" target="_blank">according to another opinion a variant of Rotfuchs, from the Middle Low German form fos ‘fox’, a nickname for a clever person.</a></li>
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They had six children; Johann Friedrich b 1869, Gottlieb Fiedrich b 1871, Anna Maria b1873, Wilhelm b1879, Katharina b 1880, and Karl b 1885. Gottlieb Fiedrich died on April 29, 1899.Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-16138032831833548042014-06-18T13:40:00.001-07:002014-06-19T10:43:48.572-07:00Keppler Connection<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGfe7fyTgMU-n4hWsFF5vedM_Qk4SV0GWVbLB98EGd1lREIpn5bQMwKC-yQP61Mj-wtak4bUXC7o5dcNGGodOclQGKQ5GtG3AybZ5IRVqwodKt2aT4S5rOQgUr1-kqs_oBnhyphenhyphenkrnKR6nk3/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGfe7fyTgMU-n4hWsFF5vedM_Qk4SV0GWVbLB98EGd1lREIpn5bQMwKC-yQP61Mj-wtak4bUXC7o5dcNGGodOclQGKQ5GtG3AybZ5IRVqwodKt2aT4S5rOQgUr1-kqs_oBnhyphenhyphenkrnKR6nk3/s1600/images.jpg" /></a>About the family's only claim to fame is that Matthaeus Ohnmacht was born to Johann Ulrich and Elizabetha Katharina Ohnmacht on April 30, 1834 in Langenrand. He married Anna Maria Keppler from Schoemberg on February 13, 1866. Anna Maria was a distant relative to Joannes Kepler (spelled both ways Kepler or Keppler) the mathematician, astronomer and astrologer who was born on December 27, 1571. Matthaeus and Anna Maria had nine children of which four survived childhood. He died and was buried in Langenbrand on April 18, 1919. Anna Maria was born on January 20, 1839 and died on October 9, 1896. The surviving children's names were Christine Barbara b1868, Anna Maria b1870, Katharine b1873, Christine Friederike b1877 and Rosine Barbara b1882.<br />
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Matthaeus worked as a lumberjack. <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumberjack" target="_blank"><b style="background-image: none; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lumberjacks</b> are workers in the <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit;">logging</span> industry who perform the initial harvesting and transport of trees for ultimate processing into <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font: inherit;">forest products</span>. The term usually refers to a bygone era (before 1945 in the United States) when hand tools were used in harvesting trees. Because of its historical ties, the term lumberjack has become ingrained in popular culture through folklore, mass media and spectator sports. The actual work was difficult, dangerous, intermittent, low-paying, and primitive in living conditions, but the men built a traditional culture that celebrated strength, masculinity, confrontation with danger, and resistance to modernization. </a> Some of the tools that he might of used:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.ehow.com/info_8169185_lumberjack-tools-1800s.html" target="_blank">Lumberjacks used two types of axes in the 1800s: a single-bitted or single-headed axe and a double-bitted axe. Some loggers believed the double-bitted axe to be a dangerous choice, and preferred to use two single-bitted axes instead. They would use one axe to get through the bark and the second for the tree itself.</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.familienforschung.heimat-schoemberg.de/Keppler.html" target="_blank">"The first Keppler who became resident in Schomberg, is Peter born around 1620 in Calw. His father was Johann Georg, who was the beginning of the Crown host in Calw."</a> It is the period after the thirty years war and the plague. Events that have largely wiped out the population in the area Schomberg and Langenbrand. The French had invaded this area under Ludwig XIV. By the end of the 19th century the Keppler family continued to migrated from Schomberg to Wurzenbach.<br />
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Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-32329492375103121922014-06-11T17:40:00.000-07:002016-03-28T19:08:52.521-07:00Neuhausen<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHRCZoTtIV7ZmD4pVYSvCSdmtKszBfPivOjo6Lg8DBnmnNeAsJuhAUlNn969M4oxrqlOSOeO6pef3rPXm-0RnAW7Hin6nwSeM4sUpLhnJD_ZuDdzHv3wRGirNu8fUt9I_PL5e1Y4zOhAE/s1600/ohnmacht_2206123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilHRCZoTtIV7ZmD4pVYSvCSdmtKszBfPivOjo6Lg8DBnmnNeAsJuhAUlNn969M4oxrqlOSOeO6pef3rPXm-0RnAW7Hin6nwSeM4sUpLhnJD_ZuDdzHv3wRGirNu8fUt9I_PL5e1Y4zOhAE/s1600/ohnmacht_2206123.jpg" width="137" /></a>My grandmother Gertrude Grossholtz was born in Neuhausen, Germany which was part of Alsace Lorraine. The problem that I am having is determining which Neuhausen she was referring to on her marriage certificate. Is it Neuhausen ob Eck which is in Baden Wurttemberg on the southern side of the Swabian Alb. According to my sister my Grandmother was Catholic even though they brought the children up to be Lutheran. This fact would lead me to believe that she was from Neuhausen ob Eck and I have sent for information from a family history book by Hans-Georg Strizel entitled<u> Ortssippenbuch Neuhausen ob Eck: Kreis Tuttlingen in Wurttemberg; 1633 - 1920</u>.<br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The history of Neuhausen ob Eck is as follows; "<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_ob_Eck" target="_blank">First settlement finds come from the late Hallstatt culture
(700-450 BC) in the form of 21 burial mounds in the won Hatzgerwiesen between
Neuhausen whether corner and Worndorf.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_ob_Eck" target="_blank">Had its first documentary mention is found in the year 1095 in a
document of Pope Urban II confirmed that Count Eberhard VI. of Nellenburg and
whose son Burkhard the monastery leave various possessions from the area of the
villa Nuwenhusin Allerheiligen in Schaffhausen.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_ob_Eck" target="_blank">1465 Count Johann to Nellenburg had sold the Landgraviate of
Nellenburg (which encompassed the area around Neuhausen) for 37.905 guilders to
Duke Siegmund of Austria, making the area around fell to Neuhausen am front
Austria. Count Eberhard von Württemberg, in turn the elder bought finally the
actual village Neuhausen his cousin, Count Eberhard the younger before 1481 for
1,690 of guilders, which was the village to Württemberg. A centuries-lasting
dispute between the Habsburgs and Württemberg started to the ownership and
rights to the village. The Vogt in Stockach demanded the jurisdiction for
Austria because of Neuhausen in the forest of Nellenburg.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_ob_Eck" target="_blank">To completely confuse the ownership, the monastery was also all
Saints the largest landowners of the area and Church Mr. Over the centuries,
the Mellisa therefore lived as "Servant of three Masters". The
dispute was settled only in 1750 with the Division of the village. Austria and
Württemberg agreed that the Customs facility should each be Austrian and
Württemberg to the half.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 10.5pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_ob_Eck" target="_blank">On the 4th December 1632, during the thirty years war, Neuhausen
was invaded by <span style="background: #DDDDDD;">Überlingern</span>. Were killed
many inhabitants and burned the place to a large extent. in 1792 there was
again a great fire, which almost all building to the victims fell. in 1806,
Neuhausen was whether corner associated by Napoleon, the Kingdom of Württemberg
and thus Oberamt Tuttlingen.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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(Neuhausen airfield whether corner) set up, this lasted until 1994, after the
garrison was disbanded. Last 20 were the German army aviators Corps Regiment in
the Ludwig-Erhard-Kaserne and the army Squadron associated with the 10th
armoured Division stationed 10 with helicopters of the type Bell UH-1 d and
BO105 and the military police training company 750<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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Holzach already in the year 785. Also this village belonged to Nellenburg, came
to Württemberg in 1805 and 1810 was Baden. The municipal area lies the remains
of the castle of Schwandorf.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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of an own rule, which came to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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were the former Württemberg Neuhausen on 1 January 1973 until then formerly
Baden municipalities Schwandorf and Worndorf if amalgamated with corner.<o:p></o:p></a></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_auf_den_Fildern" target="_blank"><b>"Neuhausen auf den Fildern</b> is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. It is located 13 km southeast of Stuttgart."</a> I had an opportunity when I was visiting Langenbrand to visit this village in Baden Wuttemberg. This town had several churches and I was able to visit the church grounds as seen below. St. Urban and Vitus parish church is<a href="http://www.neuhausen-enzkreis.de/freizeit/historisch.html" target="_blank"> "located east of the main road in the middle of the village. A strong lining wall shields the church yard against the tiefergelegene road."</a> A wedding was taking place at the time of my visit to the church and so I didn't feel comfortable entering the church.<br />
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<a href="http://www.neuhausen-enzkreis.de/gemeinde/geschichte.html" target="_blank">This Neuhausen auf den Fildern was founded during feudal Germany. According to the town website ".. each community in the area had two mayors, who were responsible for the accounting department.... The inhabitants of the village were divided into two classes the community's citizens and Sojourners. Only large potatoes were harvested in the second half of the 19th century. Fields were sold for a loaf of bread." A week's salary was a loaf of bread.</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/de-es-nh.html" target="_blank">The village was until 1754 ruled only by the Lords of Neuhausen. Since 1655 it was a joint sovereignty of the Lords of Neuhausen and the Lords of Rotenhan. In 1806 it became part of Württemberg. </a><br />
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<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_auf_den_Fildern" target="_blank"><span dstinfo="0:9" id="ouHighlight__32_41TO0_9" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="32:41">Neuhausens</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9200709607659291"> was first documented in 1153 when t</span><span dstinfo="71:73" id="ouHighlight__70_72TO71_73" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="70:72">he</span><span id="noHighlight_0.8710542260882165"> </span><span dstinfo="75:79" id="ouHighlight__74_76TO75_79" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="74:76">place</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9503570115842981"> </span><span dstinfo="81:89" id="ouHighlight__78_94TO81_89" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="78:94">was under</span><span id="noHighlight_0.47338471777146407"> </span><span dstinfo="91:104" id="ouHighlight__96_106TO91_104" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="96:106">local nobility</span><span id="noHighlight_0.18779647599990995">,</span><span id="noHighlight_0.9170377703863995"> </span><span dstinfo="107:109" 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srcinfo="186:195">Habsburg</span><span id="noHighlight_0.992972399341927"> </span><span dstinfo="179:182" id="ouHighlight__197_199TO179_182" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="197:199">rule</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2736240634579231"> </span><span dstinfo="184:186" id="ouHighlight__201_205TO184_186" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="201:205">and</span><span id="noHighlight_0.835486209020694"> </span><span dstinfo="188:190" id="ouHighlight__207_222TO188_190" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="207:222">was</span><span id="noHighlight_0.6950361128369618"> </span><span dstinfo="192:201" id="ouHighlight__234_234TO192_201" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="234:234">associated</span><span id="noHighlight_0.4178555471140686"> with</span><span dstinfo="208:223" id="ouHighlight__224_233TO208_223" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="224:233"> Austria</span><span id="noHighlight_0.12774439499035695">. </span><span dstinfo="226:227" id="ouHighlight__236_237TO226_227" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="236:237">In</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7046396884524815"> </span><span dstinfo="229:231" id="ouHighlight__239_241TO229_231" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="239:241">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.642651695959864"> </span><span dstinfo="233:243" id="ouHighlight__243_253TO233_243" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="243:253">Reformation</span><span id="noHighlight_0.7033777209968203">, </span><span dstinfo="246:248" id="ouHighlight__262_265TO246_248" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="262:265">all</span><span id="noHighlight_0.0016544925262520493"> </span><span dstinfo="250:260" id="ouHighlight__267_276TO250_260" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="267:276">surrounding</span><span id="noHighlight_0.08431306858048354"> </span><span dstinfo="262:269" id="ouHighlight__296_301TO262_269" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="296:301">villages</span><span id="noHighlight_0.2763039030829329"> of </span><span dstinfo="274:284" 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paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="501:508">first</span><span id="noHighlight_0.29599227539467593"> </span><span dstinfo="487:490" id="ouHighlight__510_513TO487_490" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="510:513">1802</span><span id="noHighlight_0.585422897404947"> </span><span dstinfo="492:499" id="ouHighlight__494_499TO492_499" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="494:499">resulted</span><span id="noHighlight_0.5491446869292411"> </span><span dstinfo="501:509" id="ouHighlight__533_535TO501_509" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="533:535">belonging</span><span id="noHighlight_0.161617689062992"> </span><span dstinfo="511:512" id="ouHighlight__537_549TO511_512" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="537:549">to</span><span id="noHighlight_0.30859019887392264"> </span><span dstinfo="514:516" id="ouHighlight__551_555TO514_516" paragraphname="paragraph0" srcinfo="551:555">the</span><span id="noHighlight_0.4962734264341261"> </span><span dstinfo="518:531" id="ouHighlight__556_556TO518_531" 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The third village of Neuhausen Enz were my Grandmother could have come from is located in the district of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enz_(district)" title="Enz (district)">Enz</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg" title="Baden-Württemberg">Baden-Württemberg</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>. Neuhausen is on the plateau between <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagold" title="Nagold">Nagold</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%BCrm" title="Würm">Würm</a>, also named <i>Biet</i> (from German <i>Gebiet</i> (<i>area</i>) between 430 and 570 metres sea level.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuhausen_(Enz)" target="_blank">The so-called <i>Biet</i>-villages to them belong Neuhausen and its districts too were probably created as forest homestead villages. The first documentary evidence followed later: 1073 Schellbronn, 1150 Neuhausen and 1157 Steinegg. Hamberg was mentioned documentary in 1453 the first time, but it is probably Hamberg to have been created in the 11. century on initiative of a Stein von Rechtenstein. They subjected the <i>Freiherren von Gemmingen</i> (barons of Gemmingen).</a>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-36849497537942983282014-06-02T16:38:00.002-07:002014-06-04T10:36:53.735-07:00Langenbrand<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Forbach-Langenbrand<br />
The 550-year-old Medieval church is<br />
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Langenbrand or <a href="http://www.schoemberg.de/de/B%C3%BCrger/Unsere-Gemeinde/Ortsteile/Langenbrand" target="_blank">Long fire is on the ridge between Enz and Nagold and coming from Pforzheim is the entrance gate to the overall community Schomberg . With its approximately 1,300 inhabitants , it is the second largest district after Schomberg. The municipality emerged from a forest clearing in the 1100</a>s with six other municipalities.<br />
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<a href="http://www.schoemberg.de/de/B%C3%BCrger/Unsere-Gemeinde/Ortsteile/Langenbrand" target="_blank">The six municipalities of the area received with Langenbrand in 1404, its ecclesiastical center . In 1325 came Langenbrand along with Neuenbürg to Württemberg . The Thirty Years' War left deep scars in Waldhufendorf and even dysentery and plague did not spare the place. The population lived for centuries off agriculture and forestry, and before the 18th century, the brown iron ore mining. Shaping the townscape is a church originating from the 12th/13th century, which was completed in the 18th century around the upper part of the tower and the nave in its present form .</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.schoemberg.de/de/B%C3%BCrger/Unsere-Gemeinde/Ortsteile/Langenbrand" target="_blank"> Since 1984, Langenbrand is recognized as a health resort and contributes to the campsite and various hotels and guesthouses considerably to the number of overnight stays. Part of the overall community Schomberg Langenbrand was in the context of incorporation in 1975. Heavily frequented by clubs from all over Schomberg is the elaborately renovated in 2010 town house with multipurpose hall . Next to it is the newly built daycare " The Rappelkiste " went into operation in March 2013 , which is the all-day care and toddler groups for the total community of great importance. For 10 years a wind turbine can be found on the edge of the community. Currently, the community is concerned with the possible resettlement of additional wind turbines in Langenbrand.</a><br />
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<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langenbrand_(Forbach)" target="_blank"><span title="Bis Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts spielte in der Ortsgeschichte von Langenbrand die Papierherstellung eine große Rolle.">By the end of the 20th century papermaking played a major role in the history of the community. </span><span title="Am 1. Mai 1883 gegründet, war die Firma Holtzmann, mit dem Werk Wolfsheck, welches bis zur Schließung zum StoraEnso-Konzern gehörte, das größte Unternehmen in Langenbrand.">Founded on May 1, 1883 the company Holtzmann , with the Wolfsheck , which belonged to closing the Stora Enso Group , the largest company in area was </span></a>founded i<span title="1991 gegründet und seit 2005 in Langenbrand ansässig, gehört die Firma Fritz Automation zu den wenigen hier angesiedelten Unternehmen.
"><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langenbrand_(Forbach)" target="_blank">n 1991 and headquartered in Langenbrand since 2005. The company Fritz Automation is one of the few companies located here .</a></span><br />
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Langenbrand is one of the communities where the Ohnmachts originate. According to my records the furthest that the Ohnmachts go back in Langenbrand dates back to Johann George Ohnmacht who was born in Lutzenhardt in 1767 but was buried in Langenbrand in 1834. His son, Johann Ulrich Ohnmacht was born in Langenbrand On February 10, 1804 as well as his brothers and sisters. Johann Ulrich married Elisabeth Katharine Schwaemmle on June 9, 1839 in Langenbrand and they had their eight children in this town. One of the eight children was Gottlieb Frederich Ohnmacht who was born on August 24, 1843 he was my Great Grandfather. Both Johann and Elisabeth lived their whole life and were buried in the town. I have sent for the microfilm from the Mormans and hope that there is more information about the family. I am looking for the occupation of Johann George and Johann Ulrich Ohnmacht.<br />
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When I visited the town it was a small quaint community. There is a stone in the church yard with an Erik Ohnmacht's name on the stone. This was the home of my Grandfather, Gottlieb Frederich Ohnmacht, one of Johann Ulrich's grandchildren born on October 3, 1871. He lived in this town for twenty-one years and worked as a goldsmith according to Immigration records. What made him come to America and change his profession? These are questions I have yet to answer.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://sanda-halcyondays.blogspot.com/2013/01/who-remembers-buster-brown.html" target="_blank">Buster Brown was originally a comic strip character created in 1902 by Richard Felton Outcault, who was associated with the Brown Shoe Company. Buster, with his pageboy haircut, was based on a small child in Outcault’s hometown.</a> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is a photograph of my Grandmother and father. My father is dressed in a dress typical of the period. I think that my father is either three or four years old in the photograph. This is the time when they were living in American Venice. You can see him with his Buster Brown Haircut. </span><br />
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By the 1910's "<a href="http://histclo.com/style/skirted/Dress/dress.html" target="_blank">Some mothers still dressed their younger boys in dresses, but the convention of dressing young boys in dresses and kilt suits became increasingly less </a>."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihjIoZ1gZl0b-kXkgQq3CTqZBh4q3LS9oanBrM_xn9mYh6vtgccech029T2nr0r-9RTlvVivPeURwL271pPwOfqJBA_Y2dvltlGKoLKBQfgp8LoXr7WwYXLr4fuwiBvhHAE1QP1ozeCKjD/s1600/8-6-2011+9;45;43+PM.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihjIoZ1gZl0b-kXkgQq3CTqZBh4q3LS9oanBrM_xn9mYh6vtgccech029T2nr0r-9RTlvVivPeURwL271pPwOfqJBA_Y2dvltlGKoLKBQfgp8LoXr7WwYXLr4fuwiBvhHAE1QP1ozeCKjD/s1600/8-6-2011+9;45;43+PM.JPG" height="320" width="130" /></a>"<a href="http://histclo.com/style/skirted/Dress/dress.html" target="_blank">It is interesting from an historical perspective to speculate as to why little boys were dressed as girls. Many qu estions come to mind. Many stress the practical factor of the ease of caring for small children in skirted garments. This was probably a factor, but practicality was not the only factor. Clearly the mother that lovingly dressed her son in frilly Little Lord Fauntleroy suits and curled his hair did not place practicality high on her priorities. Also the practicality arguement does not explain why some boys were kept in dresses well past the age of toilet training. Clearly more was involved andvpeople in past generations saw it important to distinguish the young boy from the man. Attiring boys in dresses did set them apart from men, but did not set them apart from adults--as until the 19th century they wore dresses much like their sisters and mothers. Why was the boy's costume not distinguished from that of a woman's? This question leads to some interesting insights into pschological power relationships and the staus of women in previous eras." </a><br />
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<a href="http://histclo.com/chron/c1910.html" target="_blank">The sailor suit fashion continued popular in the 1910s. Styles at the beginning of the decade were little changed than at the turn of the century, except that shorts and knickers largely replaced knee pants. By the end of the decade sailor suits were being worn by increasingly younger boys in Britain and America, although older boys continued to wear them in Germany and other European countries. Most American boys wore knickers, often including high school age boys. </a>Mary Ann Koferlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03684760900890052194noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7827702953131263149.post-2895590741124843502014-05-29T08:30:00.005-07:002014-05-30T19:07:05.355-07:00You Ought To Be In Pictures<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3LWT8URcupUqkAz6CQ_Z-ptH-xhEmzVXIAcDQbFA3Si4jyXE_NW_UF2JtochcV9EDTjsenXFZtD0yyXA-bMsCfBNVja-bDZ41B_n8awXEOGGpLGraekDdcDy0APl0w9eKBt6SrQwYGH1L/s1600/8-6-2011+9;31;54+PM.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3LWT8URcupUqkAz6CQ_Z-ptH-xhEmzVXIAcDQbFA3Si4jyXE_NW_UF2JtochcV9EDTjsenXFZtD0yyXA-bMsCfBNVja-bDZ41B_n8awXEOGGpLGraekDdcDy0APl0w9eKBt6SrQwYGH1L/s1600/8-6-2011+9;31;54+PM.JPG" height="320" width="198" /></a>The photograph on the left is of my Aunt Gertrude and her friend wearing a skimmer or boater hat.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boater_(hat)" target="_blank">A <b>boater</b> (also <b>straw boater</b>, <b>basher</b>, <b>skimmer</b>, <b>cady</b>, <b>katie</b>, <b>somer</b>, <b>sennit hat</b>, or in Japan, <b>can-can hat</b>) is a kind of men's formal summer hat. It is normally made of stiff sennit straw and has a stiff flat crown and brim, typically with a solid or striped grosgrain ribbon around the crown. Boaters were popular as casual summer headgear in the late 19th century and early 20th century, especially for boating or sailing, hence the name. </a><br />
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To the right is a picture of my Aunt when she was under five years old. This is a lovely studio shot. For years my mother thought it was a picture of herself but my Uncle Al clarified it for us. If you look at the outfit she is wearing note the muff and bonnet typical turn of the century costume. The double breasted coat with an attached cape trimmed in what looks like velvet, were popular at the time. Gertrude was there first daughter and her parents chose to dressed her laviously.<br />
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<a href="http://www.maggiemayfashions.com/turncentury.html" target="_blank">While there is documentation to suggest that premade children's attire existed as early as 17th century Europe, it was not until the manufacturing age (or the age of mass production) that ready made children's garments were available to all social classes. Before the 1860s, ready made children's clothing was only purchased by the upper class. Tailors and "<span style="font-weight: bold;">little dressmakers</span>" visited the home of the wealthy, taking measurements and fitting garments to each child. However, by the end of the 19th century, fashion called for loosely fitted dresses and less tailored suits- allowing for a one size fits all industry.</a><br />
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The photograph found to your right is of Aunt Gertrude and my Mother Tillie. My mother looks around the age of seven and is wearing a light coat which leads me to believe that it was Springtime. My Aunt Gertrude is wearing a black lace dress with a low waistline. Typical style of the 1920's this dress shows off a long pendent that could possibly a locket with her innitials on it that my Sister Barbara has in her collection.<br />
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The final photograph was taken of my Aunt Gertrude and who I think is her husband, John Clark. The photographs shows my Aunt wearing a long winter coat and sporting a picture hat. The dark coat with matching satin trim adds a beautiful accent to the coat with its fur trim. The photograph probably was taken in the early twenties.<br />
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Gertrude married John C. Clark on April 11, 1923. I don't think there was a big wedding reception because they were married on a Wednesday probably by the Justice of the Peace. John C. Clark was not her parents choice but rather a marriage Gertrude rushed into. She drove a car and followed some of the era's traits. I'm not sure that she smoked but I do believe that she was breaking away from traditions of the German Immigrant family life and becoming her own woman. Once she married John Clark she no longer went home but rather her siblings would visit her at her new home. Her father, Gottlieb was upset with her decision to wed John Clark.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flapper" target="_blank"><b>Flappers</b> were a "new breed" of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior. Flappers were seen as brash for wearing excessive makeup, drinking, treating sex in a casual manner, smoking, driving automobiles, and otherwise flouting social and sexual norms. Flappers had their origins in the liberal period of the Roaring Twenties, the social, political turbulence and increased transatlantic cultural exchange that followed the end of World War I, as well as the export of American jazz culture to Europe.</a><br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_Twenties" target="_blank">The <b>Roaring Twenties</b> is a term sometimes used to refer to the 1920s in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, characterizing the decade's distinctive cultural edge in New York City, Chicago, Paris, Berlin, London, Los Angeles and many other major cities during a period of sustained economic prosperity. French speakers called it the "<i>années folles</i>" ("Crazy Years"),<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1">[1]</sup> emphasizing the era's social, artistic, and cultural dynamism. Normalcy returned to politics in the wake of hyper-emotional patriotism after World War I, jazz music blossomed, the flapper redefined modern womanhood, and Art Deco peaked. Economically, the era saw the large-scale diffusion and use of automobiles, telephones, motion pictures, and electricity, unprecedented industrial growth, accelerated consumer demand and aspirations, and significant changes in lifestyle and culture. The media focused on celebrities, especially sports heroes and movie stars, as cities rooted for their home team and filled the new palatial cinemas and gigantic stadiums. In most major countries women won the right to vote for the first time. Finally the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ended the era, as the Great Depression set in, bringing years of worldwide gloom and hardship.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2">[2]</sup></a><br />
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