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From: "John Merz" <>
Subject: Re: Chronik of Michelsberg for the 750th anniversary
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 15:53:35 -0400
References: <42540F5E.9020905@web.de>


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From: "Aumag" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:33 PM
Subject: Chronik of Michelsberg for the 750th anniversary


> Dear Mr. Merz,
>
> My name is Andreas Göbel and I'm from Michelsberg in Germany. Some
> others and I are working on a chronik of Michelsberg for the 750th
> anniversary of our hometown next year. If you want to know more about
> our little village, you can find some interesting information at
> "www.schwalmstadt-michelsberg.de" on the Internet.
>
> By change I found some information of Georg and Hans Heinrich Vogel and
> Johannes Wickert on the Internet, who came from my hometown Michelsberg.
> I also found your E-Mail address. I write to you now because I hope that
> you can tell me more about Georg and Hans Heinrich Vogel and Johannes
> Wickert.
>
> There history is an interesting theme because today no one in
> Michelsberg knows anything about these men, who were soldiers of the
> hessian troops in the Revolutionary war. You could say, they are "the
> forgotten children" of Michelsberg. Today no "Vogels" but still some
> "Wickerts" live here in Michelsberg. On a map of 1773 you can find the
> names "Johannes Vogell", "Johannes Wickert", "Hanscurt Wickert" and
> "Hermann Wickert". I send it with this message as an attachment.
>
> The house of the Vogel brothers still exists today. It only went through
> minmal changes during the last two hundred centuaries. For many years it
> had been a "Dorfkneipe"(village inn), since 10 years it has become a
> "Künstlerhaus" (arthouse), because two "alternative" artists and their
> family live and work there. They do paintings, form sculptures etc.
> Every year in the summer they organize an artist-happening. Many amateur
> and professional artists from all over Germany come to Michelsberg for
> this happening. Moreover most of the "Wickerts" houses exists today. You
> can find some actual pictures as an attachment to this message.
>
> We would be very happy, if you could give us some information about the
> life of the men from Michelsberg mentioned above and perhaps of other
> men from my hometown, who we do not know at the moment. With your help
> and your information we might be able to write an article about the
> the hessian soldiers from Michelsberg for our chronik so that they
> become a part of our history again.
>
> Many thanks for your help in advance and many greetings from
> Michelsberg !
>
> Andreas Göbel
>
> P.S.: If you reply my E-Mail please use the word "Michelsberg" in the
> headline(subject), because my spamfilter normaly erases all
> english messages :-)
>


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