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Johannes Maurer and Katharina Eyer
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Maurer
| TEN Generations from Germany to the U.S.A. - DE1. Samuel Maurer, (b. in (?) Kauserlauten, Rheinland-Pflalz; d. (?) in Gersweilerhof , Rheinland-Pflalz). His parents died in Sapmmer, Holland. Holland is a region in the central-western part of the Netherlands. Holland is a former country of the Holy Roman Empire, ruled by the Count of Holland and later the dominant province of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces (Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Provinciën, 1581– 1795). Married: (?) Katharina Kinzinger, (b. Kaiserlautern, Rheinland-Pfalz; d. Gersweilerhof, Rheinland-Pfalz ) They had 2 sons, their oldest was Johannes Maurer DE2. Johannes Maurer (b. 1786 in Grünstadt, Rheinland-Pfalz; d. 28 Sep 1850 in Mehlingen) Married 24 Jan 1809 in Mehlingen, Rheinland-Pfalz. Katharina Eyer, (b. 1786 in Mehlingen, Rheinland-Pfalz; d. 28 Sep 1824 in Mehlingen.) They had four boys and four girls, Johann Maurer was the third child. |
Johann Maurer and his borther Samuel M. Maurer were both born in Grünstadt.
Grünstadt is where A6 intersects with the Weinstrasse, and I would qualify it as a typical
Autobahn town (or Interstate town, if you are American). New, commercial, a place to live
but not necessarily to visit. On the other hand, Asselheim, one of Grünstadt's neighborhoods,
is really very pretty, and sits on the side of a steep hill overlooking the pristine Rheinhessen
vineyards to the north. Asselheim also has an old, distinctive Gothic church. Johann Maurer
was the oldest of two sons of Samuel Maurer and Katharina Kinzinger.
Grünstadt is where A6 intersects with the Weinstrasse, and I would qualify it as a typical
Autobahn town (or Interstate town, if you are American). New, commercial, a place to live
but not necessarily to visit. On the other hand, Asselheim, one of Grünstadt's neighborhoods,
is really very pretty, and sits on the side of a steep hill overlooking the pristine Rheinhessen
vineyards to the north. Asselheim also has an old, distinctive Gothic church. Johann Maurer
was the oldest of two sons of Samuel Maurer and Katharina Kinzinger.
Freinsheim -- is one of those
classic German villages with a fully-intact city
wall and old-style stone towers, from which
the modern city has built upon. This section
of the city wall has been built up into houses,
but whole sections are still original. Along
with that, Freinsheim is one of the most
colorful and lively cities around. The
Rathaus, left, is really beautiful with the red
flower boxes. The wine houses are very
decorative, and even on a hot Sunday
afternoon, many of them are plenty full of
people. Weinstrasse is the Northern End of
the Wine Road. Freinsheim is where Johann
Maurer's brother Samuel M. Maurer married
Magdalena Schwarztraub on 27 April 1825.
Johann Maurer married Katharina Eyer on
24 Jan 1809 in Mehlingen, and where they
both died.
classic German villages with a fully-intact city
wall and old-style stone towers, from which
the modern city has built upon. This section
of the city wall has been built up into houses,
but whole sections are still original. Along
with that, Freinsheim is one of the most
colorful and lively cities around. The
Rathaus, left, is really beautiful with the red
flower boxes. The wine houses are very
decorative, and even on a hot Sunday
afternoon, many of them are plenty full of
people. Weinstrasse is the Northern End of
the Wine Road. Freinsheim is where Johann
Maurer's brother Samuel M. Maurer married
Magdalena Schwarztraub on 27 April 1825.
Johann Maurer married Katharina Eyer on
24 Jan 1809 in Mehlingen, and where they
both died.
In simple terms a Palatine is an inhabitant of a German area known as Palatinate which is
nestled in the hills of vineyards along the west side of the Rhine River and is presently found in
what is called the Rhineland-Palatinate [Pfalz]area in the year 2000.
My first known ancestor, who was born in 1654 in the area, now, known as Rhineland-Palatinate,
lived in the prosperous wine town of Nustadt-on-the-Wine Road [Weinstrasse] , also, known as
Nustadt -on-the-Hardt [River], which was the Rhenish [Old Lower Palatinate] capital. The records
show the Roemmich clan had migrated from Leiman, a village just south of Heidelberg, which is
presently in Wuerttemberg, but in the earlier times had been part of Upper Palatinate and the
older capital.
The wine road to the south passes through the village of Edenkoben where we find in the
records of another ancestor marrying a local girl in 1720. Here the family would remain until 1809.
A Little History of Bavaria and the Palatinate
Keltic [Celtic] tribes ruled the area known later as Palatinate and left their mark..... To the north
were the Germanic [Teutonic] tribes, to the east were the Slavs and to the south were the Italics.
The Roman Empire sent troops westward in 14 AD.....
The Kelts and the Teutonic tribes fought the Roman legions. One of those tribes were the Remi
who fought with their fellow Belgae [forerunner of Belgium] : Bellovoci, Nervii, Suessions, Aduatuci
and Menappi. A group of the Remi were swift oarsmen [Raemh=oar] who eluded the Roman
sailors on the rivers of the Rhine, Mosele and Marne. After a great amount of blood shed one of
the Remi leaders must have realize the Romans were not going to be defeated and joined the
Roman legions because the name Raemh was Romanized to Roemigius
Romans ruled Europe until the year 280....
The crowns passed from Roman hands into the hands of the Germanic [Teutonic] kings....
The founder of the Merovingian [des. of Viking family Meerwings, the long hairs ] Clovis I [c.
466-511] King of the Franks , defeated his rivals and soon ruled Francia, which included the area
west and east of the Rhine River.
Clovis I embraced the Catholic faith in 497. The priest who baptized Clovis I was Bishop
Remigius [Roemigius], who was later known as Saint Remigius.... .See History of France
We, the Roemmichs, may or may not be a desc. of Remigius, however, it may be safe to say we
were of the same family who benefited from the political power and lands received during the
reign of Clovis I. We became protectors of the Remigius Cloisters down through the ages.....
Charles the Great, better known as Charlemagne (768-814) defeated the Barvarians in 788.......
and became king of the Franks, Emperor of the West Franks (800), restored the Leo II to Papal,
and became the base of what we know as the Holy Roman Empire.
From 814 to 1149 France [Gaul] suffered a variety of invaders: Vikings, Magyars and Saracen....
Meanwhile, the various Emperors, Kings, Princes, Duke, marriages and politicians, plus the
spread of religions, were reshaping borders in Europe into areas which we in the 21st century
are more familiar.
From 962 to 1356 the Medieval German Empire began to emerge.
Franconia , one of the German states within the Holy Roman Empire, held the large western
towns like Speyer, Worms, Kaiserslautern, Heidelberg and Bamberg to the east with Frankfort in
the north. Bohemia was to the east, Saxony to the north, Swabia and Bavaria to the south.....
In 1214 the Palatinate was given to the Wittelsbach and their lands border was west of the Rhine
River to the French border which included parts of Baden and Hesse [but not Speyer] down to
Saaarland, Bavaria, which took in east of Czechoslovakia by the Bohemian Forest
List of Rulers of the Palatinate
In the 1338 the Wittelsbach Rupert III's heirs, four sons, divided Bavaria and Palatinate into four
area. Louis ruled Palatinate of the Rhine; John ruled the Upper Palatinate (i.e. northern Bavaria);
Christopher gained Zwekbruecken and Simmern; and Otto received Mosbach.The major line held
the Rhinish-Palatinate with the title of Elector in 1356.
In 1550 Lorentz Remig [Roemich] is born in Leiman / Heidelberg., and, later, would become the
10th Count of Leiman.
In 1559 the major line of the Wittelsbach held no heir and the lands and title was given to the
minor line [Simmern] who had left the Catholic Church and had taken in the Protestant faith during
the Reformation, the religious revolution in Western Europe, which evolved into reforms in the
Catholic Church and the rise of the Protestants....
1618 our ancestor Georg Roemich b. 1602 was attending Heidelberg University when the war
broke and he left school and joined the army...
Politics and the defeat of the Protestant Winter King Frederick V of Bohemia, who had inherited,
also, Palatinate, the Thirty Years War [1618-1648] and the devastation caused by the French
troops who had invaded Palatinate left Palatines confused, bruised and bleeding.
In 1777 the ruling Wittelsbach failed to produce a male heir .... Duke Maximillian of Zweibruecken,
heir of Palatinate through the Simmern [the minor lineage] gained these lands and in 1799
reuntied all the Wittelsbach lands under a single ruler.
The French invaded palatinate, again, in 1796 and annexed all lands west of the Rhine. In 1803
Maximillian ceded the Palatinate lands east of the Rhine River to Baden, Hesse and Nassau.
With the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, and the rise of new powers in Europe, Maximillian became
King of Bavaria, and, regained Palatinate which remained under the Bavarian wing until 1945.
nestled in the hills of vineyards along the west side of the Rhine River and is presently found in
what is called the Rhineland-Palatinate [Pfalz]area in the year 2000.
My first known ancestor, who was born in 1654 in the area, now, known as Rhineland-Palatinate,
lived in the prosperous wine town of Nustadt-on-the-Wine Road [Weinstrasse] , also, known as
Nustadt -on-the-Hardt [River], which was the Rhenish [Old Lower Palatinate] capital. The records
show the Roemmich clan had migrated from Leiman, a village just south of Heidelberg, which is
presently in Wuerttemberg, but in the earlier times had been part of Upper Palatinate and the
older capital.
The wine road to the south passes through the village of Edenkoben where we find in the
records of another ancestor marrying a local girl in 1720. Here the family would remain until 1809.
A Little History of Bavaria and the Palatinate
Keltic [Celtic] tribes ruled the area known later as Palatinate and left their mark..... To the north
were the Germanic [Teutonic] tribes, to the east were the Slavs and to the south were the Italics.
The Roman Empire sent troops westward in 14 AD.....
The Kelts and the Teutonic tribes fought the Roman legions. One of those tribes were the Remi
who fought with their fellow Belgae [forerunner of Belgium] : Bellovoci, Nervii, Suessions, Aduatuci
and Menappi. A group of the Remi were swift oarsmen [Raemh=oar] who eluded the Roman
sailors on the rivers of the Rhine, Mosele and Marne. After a great amount of blood shed one of
the Remi leaders must have realize the Romans were not going to be defeated and joined the
Roman legions because the name Raemh was Romanized to Roemigius
Romans ruled Europe until the year 280....
The crowns passed from Roman hands into the hands of the Germanic [Teutonic] kings....
The founder of the Merovingian [des. of Viking family Meerwings, the long hairs ] Clovis I [c.
466-511] King of the Franks , defeated his rivals and soon ruled Francia, which included the area
west and east of the Rhine River.
Clovis I embraced the Catholic faith in 497. The priest who baptized Clovis I was Bishop
Remigius [Roemigius], who was later known as Saint Remigius.... .See History of France
We, the Roemmichs, may or may not be a desc. of Remigius, however, it may be safe to say we
were of the same family who benefited from the political power and lands received during the
reign of Clovis I. We became protectors of the Remigius Cloisters down through the ages.....
Charles the Great, better known as Charlemagne (768-814) defeated the Barvarians in 788.......
and became king of the Franks, Emperor of the West Franks (800), restored the Leo II to Papal,
and became the base of what we know as the Holy Roman Empire.
From 814 to 1149 France [Gaul] suffered a variety of invaders: Vikings, Magyars and Saracen....
Meanwhile, the various Emperors, Kings, Princes, Duke, marriages and politicians, plus the
spread of religions, were reshaping borders in Europe into areas which we in the 21st century
are more familiar.
From 962 to 1356 the Medieval German Empire began to emerge.
Franconia , one of the German states within the Holy Roman Empire, held the large western
towns like Speyer, Worms, Kaiserslautern, Heidelberg and Bamberg to the east with Frankfort in
the north. Bohemia was to the east, Saxony to the north, Swabia and Bavaria to the south.....
In 1214 the Palatinate was given to the Wittelsbach and their lands border was west of the Rhine
River to the French border which included parts of Baden and Hesse [but not Speyer] down to
Saaarland, Bavaria, which took in east of Czechoslovakia by the Bohemian Forest
List of Rulers of the Palatinate
In the 1338 the Wittelsbach Rupert III's heirs, four sons, divided Bavaria and Palatinate into four
area. Louis ruled Palatinate of the Rhine; John ruled the Upper Palatinate (i.e. northern Bavaria);
Christopher gained Zwekbruecken and Simmern; and Otto received Mosbach.The major line held
the Rhinish-Palatinate with the title of Elector in 1356.
In 1550 Lorentz Remig [Roemich] is born in Leiman / Heidelberg., and, later, would become the
10th Count of Leiman.
In 1559 the major line of the Wittelsbach held no heir and the lands and title was given to the
minor line [Simmern] who had left the Catholic Church and had taken in the Protestant faith during
the Reformation, the religious revolution in Western Europe, which evolved into reforms in the
Catholic Church and the rise of the Protestants....
1618 our ancestor Georg Roemich b. 1602 was attending Heidelberg University when the war
broke and he left school and joined the army...
Politics and the defeat of the Protestant Winter King Frederick V of Bohemia, who had inherited,
also, Palatinate, the Thirty Years War [1618-1648] and the devastation caused by the French
troops who had invaded Palatinate left Palatines confused, bruised and bleeding.
In 1777 the ruling Wittelsbach failed to produce a male heir .... Duke Maximillian of Zweibruecken,
heir of Palatinate through the Simmern [the minor lineage] gained these lands and in 1799
reuntied all the Wittelsbach lands under a single ruler.
The French invaded palatinate, again, in 1796 and annexed all lands west of the Rhine. In 1803
Maximillian ceded the Palatinate lands east of the Rhine River to Baden, Hesse and Nassau.
With the defeat of Napoleon in 1814, and the rise of new powers in Europe, Maximillian became
King of Bavaria, and, regained Palatinate which remained under the Bavarian wing until 1945.
Grünstadt-Land is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective
municipality") in the district of Bad Dürkheim, in
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the
north-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest. It is located
around the town Grünstadt, which is the seat of
Grünstadt-Land, but not part of the Verbandsgemeinde.
municipality") in the district of Bad Dürkheim, in
Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the
north-eastern edge of the Palatinate forest. It is located
around the town Grünstadt, which is the seat of
Grünstadt-Land, but not part of the Verbandsgemeinde.
Bad Dürkheim is a district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of
Kaiserslautern, Donnersbergkreis and Alzey-Worms, the city of
Worms, the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, the city of Neustadt/Weinstraße,
the districts of Südliche Weinstraße, the city of Landau (the
Taubensuhl/Fassendeich forest part of the city), the district
Südwestpfalz, and the city of Kaiserslautern.
The district is located on the eastern rim of the Palatinate
forest (Pfälzer Wald), called the Haardt. The Deutsche
Weinstraße ("German Wine Road"), a scenic road along the
best vineyards of the Palatinate wine region, runs through the
district from north to south. The district is sometimes called
"the heart of the Palatinate".
The best wine-growing area is the Mittelhaardt ("Middle
Haardt"), where the Riesling wine is cultivated, which is
considered to be one of the best German wines.
It is known for there great wine in which they celebrate about
every year.
It is bounded by (from the west and clockwise) the districts of
Kaiserslautern, Donnersbergkreis and Alzey-Worms, the city of
Worms, the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, the city of Neustadt/Weinstraße,
the districts of Südliche Weinstraße, the city of Landau (the
Taubensuhl/Fassendeich forest part of the city), the district
Südwestpfalz, and the city of Kaiserslautern.
The district is located on the eastern rim of the Palatinate
forest (Pfälzer Wald), called the Haardt. The Deutsche
Weinstraße ("German Wine Road"), a scenic road along the
best vineyards of the Palatinate wine region, runs through the
district from north to south. The district is sometimes called
"the heart of the Palatinate".
The best wine-growing area is the Mittelhaardt ("Middle
Haardt"), where the Riesling wine is cultivated, which is
considered to be one of the best German wines.
It is known for there great wine in which they celebrate about
every year.
Mehlingen, with approximately 3900 inhabitants, is the second largest
municipality in the local community association Enkenbach in
Rhineland-Palatinate district Kaiserslautern. Bekanntheit erlangte die
Gemeinde durch die Mehlinger Heide , die in Deutschland die zweitgrößte
ihrer Art darstellt. The community gained notoriety by Ingersoll Heide flour,
which in Germany is the second of its kind. Mehlingen is a municipality in
the district of Kaiserslautern (kreis).
municipality in the local community association Enkenbach in
Rhineland-Palatinate district Kaiserslautern. Bekanntheit erlangte die
Gemeinde durch die Mehlinger Heide , die in Deutschland die zweitgrößte
ihrer Art darstellt. The community gained notoriety by Ingersoll Heide flour,
which in Germany is the second of its kind. Mehlingen is a municipality in
the district of Kaiserslautern (kreis).
Pfalz
Grünstadt
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