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From: "elkehall" <>
Subject: RE: [GERMANNA] (1398)Germanna Colonies, HIstory of
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 07:38:28 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020603052528.020594f8@mail.pipeline.com>


John, we might have crossed the path, my son, daughter-in-law and grandson
were also in Gemmingen, Stetten and Heidelberg these past two weeks.
Returned this past Friday. We toured southern Germany, Bavaria mostly.
This was the first time we rented an apartment (Ferienwohnung), three
bedrooms, kitchen, living room for $50.00 a night for 5 of us (my brother
and mother joined us). I can strongly recommend this for other Germany
visitors. We used the apartment as a base and toured from there, returning
every night.

Elke



-----Original Message-----
From: John Blankenbaker [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:30 AM
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Subject: [GERMANNA] (1398)Germanna Colonies, HIstory of


Note thirteen hundred and ninety-eight in a series on the Germanna Colonies

We ate lunch in Ladenberg and found that the discipline of children could
be totally absent. A German family had three children and the two who were
large enough to walk ran all over the restaurant making much noise. We had
another two instances of this during our three weeks which was not what we
expected in Germany.

In the afternoon, we drove through the heart of Heidelberg to be able to go
up the Neckar River to some castles. I always fear leaving town. Getting
into the town is not hard but it is very easy to get lost on the way out of
town. This time, we made the exit perfectly perhaps because we were the
strategy of following the Neckar River. Upstream from Heidelberg there are
several castles (Gutenberg that we visited on the last trip is one, see the
photos on the Germanna web page). We picked Hirschhorn Castle to explore.
It involved a long walk uphill and when we got to the top there was really
nothing to see except the Neckar River. I recommend avoiding this one.

We continuing along the Neckar River almost to Heilbronn where we crossed
back into the Kraichgal, the home of many Germanna people. We were still
staying in Gemmingen where we spent the previous night so we returned
there. On one of the two evenings in Gemmingen we went to Zaberfeld, the
home of the Käfers, and to Stetten a. Heuchelberg, the home of the
Holds/Holts. Many other Germanna villages are not far away.

The fourth day was to be a big day. We drove to the east through Heilbronn
and stopped to visit the village of Waldbach which is where the Waylands
hailed from. Then we headed for a series of small villages not far from
Feuchtwangen in Bavaria. The first was Haundorf where Martin Utz, the
grandfather of our 1717 George Utz was from. From there we could see, at a
distance of about a mile, Seiderzell where Michael Utz the father of George
Utz lived (this is where George was born). About the same distance away
from there was Kühnhard where the grandmother and great-grandmother of
George lived. Some of the villages were so small they did not have churches
so the church at Mosbach was used. This is somewhere between a mile and two
miles from Kühnhard. About two miles north of Mosbach is Bergnerzell where
several of these people lived. All together five villages were involved and
one could be in one of the villages and have the other four villages in the
viewfinder of a wide angle lens (the countryside was relatively flat and
open).

In Bergnerzell, I made inquiries as to whether there were any people by the
name of Utz living there. The man went inside and brought out a telephone
book and showed me a page and a half with the Utz name. He thought it was
humorous. Whether he was smiling at the crazy American who would ask the
question or whether he was smiling at the answer of a page and a half of
Utzes I don’t know. Perhaps both.

I tell some of my Bavarian friends that I have more Bavarian ancestors and
cousins than they do. At least one agrees with me.

John Blankenbaker
http://www.germanna.com/
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/johnsgermnotes/germhis1.html
http://www.germanna.net/



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