OBERBRONN FRANCE

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Submitted to Brendel Brendle Brindel Brindle Forum by Pat Kilgore - November 28, 1999.

Pat Kilgore's Notes and Photos From Trip to France - November 1999

MY TRIP WAS WONDERFUL. WE VISITED ALL THE USUAL SIGHTS IN PARIS THEN TOOK OFF TO THE COUNTRY. EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK IN FRANCE THERE IS A CASTLE, EXCEPT IN OUR AREA. ALL THE WARS DESTROYED ALL THE REALLY OLD BUILDINGS, NOT EVEN A CHURCH EARLIER THAN THE 1800'S.

IF WAS REALLY NEAT TO BE IN THE AREA WHERE WE ALL STARTED SOME 250 OR MORE YEARS AGO. MOST OF THE PEOPLE THERE SPEAK GERMAN AND REALLY CONSIDER THEMSELVES GERMAN STILL. ONE LADY ASKED ME HOW THE FRENCH PEOPLE IN PARIS TREATED ME. WHEN I RESPONDED, GREAT, SHE SAID "OH THEY LOVE AMERICANS, THEY DON'T LIKE US MUCH, BUT NO WONDER." SHE MEANT THAT THEY DIDN'T LIKE GERMANS BECAUSE OF ALL THE WARS, BUT SHE WAS FRENCH AND LIVED IN FROESCHWILLER. I DON'T SPEAK FRENCH BUT HAD MADE AN EFFORT TO LEARN ENOUGH TO GET BY, AFTER I GOT TO THE LORRAINE AREA I REALIZED THAT I SHOULD HAVE WORKED ON GERMAN. I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE PEOPLE. AFTER THE HOLLIDAYS I PLAN TO RESUME RESEARCH ON THIS LINE, I HAVE A THOUSAND QUESTIONS, LIKE WHO WAS THE COUNTESS THAT JOHANN HEINRICH BRENDEL WAS LACKEY FOR? HE WAS EDUCATED AS HE WAS LATER A SCHOOLMASTER. HIS FATHER WAS A TAILOR AND MERCHANT, SO MAYBE A LITTLE ABOVE AVERAGE. DON'T YOU FIND IT STRANGE THAT ANNA BARBARA (BOLTZEL)BRENDEL HAD AN ESTATE? DID SHE COME FROM NOBLE FAMILY THAT SHE HAD THE RIGHT TO OWNERSHIP? LEOPOLD WAS DUKE OF LORRAINE 1690-1729. THEY HAVE A LOT OF PICTURES OF HIM AND HIS FAMILY AT THE MUSEUM OF LORRAINE HISTORY IN NANCY. I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND ANYONE WHO KNEW WHERE THE TRAUTBROON FARM NEAR SOULTZBACK WAS LOCATED. MAY NOT EXIST TODAY.

OBERBRONN FRANCE

NOVEMBER 1999

LUTHERAN PARISH RECORDS:

BIRTH RECORDS:

BAPTIZED: JOHANN HEINRICH IN THE YEAR 1683 THE 11 OCTOBER SON OF HANS HEINRICH BRENDEL BURGHER AND TAILOR AND OF MARIA HIS WIFE

GOODPARENTS:

ANDREAS ENGEL BURGHER

JOHANN WILHELM LAMBS

ANNA CATHARINA, VIX DES WAGNERS HAUSFRAU (THE CARTER'S WIFE)

BAPTIZED: 1680 FRIDAY THE 28^TH MAY IN THE AFTERNOON BETWEEN 3 AND 4 O'CLOCK GAVE MARIA, HANS HENRICH BRENDELL, THE BURGHER AND TAILOR'S WIFE BIRTH TO A YOUNG SON WHO RECEIVED THE BAPTISM ON THE 31TH (WAS MONDAY AFTER PENTECOSTA) AND NAMED JOHANN PHILIPP

HIS GODPARENTS CHOSEN ARE

PHILIPP KILPFFEL SON OF THOMAS KLIPFFEL

ERHARD

MARGARETHA LOW, DAUGHTER LEGITIMATE OF HANS LOW BURGHER AND WINEGROWER HERE

PROTESTANT PARISH RECORDS:

MARRIAGE RECORDS:

1710 ON THE 14^TH OF OCTOBER : MARRIED: MONSIEUR JOHANN HEINRICH BRENDEL SON OF JOHANN HEINRICH BRENDEL, BURGHER, TAILOR, AND MERCHANT OF THIS PLACE, THE YOUNG MAN AS LAQUAY OF OUR GOOD LADY COUNTESS, AND MISS ANNA BARBARA BALTZER, DAUGHTER OF THE DECEASED JOHANNES BALTZER IN HIS LIFE A BURGHER OF FROESCHWILLER : AND THIS MARRIAGE TOOK PLACE IN THE PRESENCE OF A NUMBER OF WITNESSES IN AGREEMENT WITH THE TEXT SAYING : NEAREST FRIENDS WILL TESTIFY.

THIS IS WHERE MY INFO STOPS, I WOULD APPRECIATE ANY EARLIER INFO ON THE BRENDEL OR BALTZER FAMILIES.

LANGEN SOULTZBACK FRANCE

DEATH RECORDS :

THE 30 DECEMBER 1737 IN SOULTXBACK DIED PIOUSLY MRS. ANNA BARBARA BRENDEL, BORN BOLTZEL, WIFE OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND DEVOTED SCHOOLMASTER JOHANN HEINRICH BRENDEL, OUR SCHOOLMASTER HERE FOR 23 YEARS NOW IN THE LUTHERAN CHURCH SCHOOL, HIS BELOVED WIFE.

DEATH RECORD AND PARTAKE OF GOODS LEFT AT DEATH AND DIVIDED BETWEEN HEIRS.

NOTARY RECORDS : 6 E 46 WOERTH

IN FROESCHWILLER:

AT TIME OF DEATH OF : JOHANN HEINRICH BRENDEL'S WIFE, WHO DIED IN FROESCHWILLER THE 27 DECEMBER 1737 : HUSBAND OF BARBARA BOELTZEL, SCHOOLMASTER ONCE IN LAGENSOULTZBACK

INVENTORY MADE THE 7^TH FEBRUARY 1738.

CHILDREN AND HEIRS ARE:

LOUIS HEINRICH AGED 27 YEARS, A TAIOR IN GIMPFEL

JOHANN GEORG AGED 25 YEARS, DOMICILED IN TRAUTBRONN

JOHANN PHILIPP AGED 21 YEARS

JOHANN HEINRICH AGED 19

JOHANN FRIEDRICH AGED 17

JOHANNES AGED 15

DEATH RECORDS: LANGENSOULTZBACK PROTESTANT RECORDS (3 E 159)

IN YEAR 1764 AFTER BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST, THE 2^ND OF JULY DIED IN THIS PLACE OUR FORMER SCHOOLMASTER : JOHANN HEINRICH BRENDEL, HAS BEEN IN FUNCTION HERE FOR 42 YEARS, HE HAD BEEN ILL FOR A FEW WEEKS AND WEAKENED, WAS FOUND DEAD IN HIS BED IN THE MORNING AND BURIED ON THE 3^RD OF THE SAME, AGED 80 YEARS 8 MONTHS, 12 DAYS, WAS MARRIED TO ANN BARBARA BELZEL, WHO GAVE HIM 7 SONS AND 1 DAUGHTER, OF THE SONS DIED 2, AND THE DAUGHTER ALSO. 3 SONS HAVE LEFT FOR THE NEW WORLD, AND TWO ARE STILL LIVING FOR SURE. AFTER HIS FIRST WIFE HAD DIED (HE HAD LIVED IN MARRIAGE FOR 26 YEARS WITH HER) HE MARRIED A SECOND TIME TO DECEASED ANNA MARIA WALTZINGER, WHO GAVE HIM NO CHILDREN.

WHICH IS TESTIFIED BY :

LUDWIG (LOUIS) HEINRICH BRANDEL, SON

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