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Zweibrucken is an urban district (Kreisfreie
Städte / Stadtkreise). As
such they are among the several German cities which constitute a district
in their own right. A similar concept is the Statutarstadt in Austria. The concept is comparable to the independent city in the English-speaking world. Zweibrücken is located in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river at the border of the Palatinate
forest. Zweibrücken
("two-bridges") is the Latin Bip Zweibrücken
("two-bridges") is the Latin Bipontinum; it
appears in early documents also as Geminus Pons, and is called by the French Deux-Ponts. The town was the capital of the former Duchy
of Zweibrücken, and the
Alexander-Kirche (founded in 1493) houses the tombs of the dukes. The ducal
castle is now occupied by the chief court of the Palatinate
(Oberlandesgericht). There is a fine Gothic Protestant church. Weaving, brewing and
the manufacture of machinery, such as Terex cranes and bulldozers, and John
Deere tractors, chicory, cigars, malt, boots, furniture and soap are the
chief industries. Besides there are two museums, a local city museum and a
natural history museum showing mainly fossils from the area. |
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surnames
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The following are names of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or died
in this location. To find out more about each surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. |
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Bard; Born;
Bracher; Deitz; Gohn;
Schaffer |
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The Born, Bracher, and Schaffer, families lived in that part of
western Germany now located within the Rhineland-Palatinate urban district of
Zweibrücken. The family of Johann George Bracher and Susanna Margaretta Forster Born are associated
with the village of Rimschweiler. It
is believed that that the Schaffer and Bard families lived in the old city
section of Zweibrücken itself. It appears that Susanna Margaretta Born
was a native of Rimschweiler having been born there in 1672. Susanna married
Johann George Bracher, and of their 14 children 7 appear to have been born at
Rimcschweiler between 1705 and 1715. The Schaffer family had been living near
Zweibrücken since before the 1713 marriage between Paulus Schaffer, Sr. and
Anna Maria Elizabeth Bracher, daughter of the aforementioned Johann George
Bracher. Their son Paul Schaffer, Jr.
was born at Zweibrücken in 1721.
Paulus Sr. and Anna Maria Elizabeth Schaffer, along with their
children, left Zweibrucken in 1738 and sailed to America aboard the ship
“Thistle”. |
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RIMSCHWEILER
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LOCATION: Country: Germany;
State: Rheinland-Pfalz; District: Zweibrücken; Place: Rimschweiler; Coordinates/Map: 49° 14′ 58″ N,
7° 21′ 39″ E |
Location of
Rimschweiler within the Zweibrucken urban district |
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DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE(s): Rimschweiler is a town that lies within the urban district of Zweibruecken, a city in Rhineland-Palatinate
(Germany) near the borders with France and the Saarland. Rimschweiler
first found in records around 1200
as Rimeswilre. Documents of 1298 also identify the hamlet
as Heidelbingerhof. Through out history it has always been a part of Zweibrucken. |
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ANCESTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Susanna Margaretta Forster Born born here
06 Jan 1671/72. The following children
of Johann George Bracher and Susanna Margaretta Forster Born were born here
between 1704 and 1715: Catharina, Sara Margaretha; Peter Bernhard; Hans Peter;
Maria Sophia;
Magdalena; and Susan Kunigunde.
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Rimschweiler-Wikipedia (German); |
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ZWEIBRÜCKEN
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LOCATION: Country: Germany;
State: Rheinland-Pfalz; District: Zweibrücken; Place:Stadmitte;
Coordinates/Map: 49° 14′ 58″ N,
7° 21′ 39″ E |
Location of the 18th
century city of Zweibrücken |
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DESCRIPTION OF GEN-SITE(s): Zweibrücken is a transportation center and has ironworks,
steelworks, and factories that produce leather goods, wood products,
machines, and textiles. It is also a noted horse-breeding center, horse races
are held there. Zweibrücken was chartered in 1352 and passed (1385) to the Palatinate branch of the Bavarian house of
Wittelsbach. In 1410 it became the seat of the counts (later dukes) palatine
of Zweibrücken under a cadet line of the Palatinate branch. Charles X of
Sweden was the
nephew of John II, duke palatine of Zweibrücken; his son, Charles XI of Sweden,
inherited Zweibrücken in the late 17th cent., and the duchy remained in
personal union with Sweden from 1697 until the death (1718) of Charles XII.
The Zweibrücken line continued until 1731, when the related
Palatinate-Birkenfeld line acceded. The duchy of Zweibrücken was annexed
(1797) to France. It was restored to Bavaria at the Congress of Vienna
(1814-15) and since then has shared the history of the Rhenish Palatinate. It
was virtually demolished in World War II but has since been reconstructed. |
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ANCESTORS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS GEN-SITE: Paul
Schaffer, Jr was born here 1721. Anna
Elizabeth Bard born here c. 1719 |
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Zweibrücken - Wikipedia; Zweibrucken, wikipedia (tranlated version) |
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LOCATION: Country: Germany;
State: Rheinland-Pfalz; District: Zweibrücken; Municipal
Association:
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INTERNET WEB LINK(s): |
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LOCALITIES
Zweibrücken is
divided into neighborhoods near the downtown Bubenhausen, Ernstweiler, Ixheim and Niederauerbach. Des Weiteren existieren
noch die eingemeindeten Ortsteile Mörsbach im Norden, Oberauerbach im Nordosten, Rimschweiler im Süden, Mittelbach-Hengstbach
im Südwesten und Wattweiler
im Westen der Stadt. In
addition, the incorporated villages still exist Mörsbach in the north, Upper Auerbach in the Northeast, Rimschweiler in the south, Mittelbach
stallion creek in the
southwest and Watts hamlet in
the west of the city. |
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Castle of the Dukes of Zweibrucken |
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