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From: "mghelena" <>
Subject: [POSEN] Question on Dembogora, Exin Parish, Kreis Schubin
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 23:00:42 -0600
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Many, many thanks to James Birkholz for his posting and translation of the
information about Exin parish. It was extremely useful to me in my research.
Also thanks to Kerstin with information about where to locate Exin area
records prior to 1829. Idon't know what I would do without this list!

James, you were right that the death records were kept in a separate book in
Exin beginning in 1819. The first pastor, Pastor Werner, had terrible
handwriting. Pastor Theden, the second pastor, had wonderfully scripted but
very legible handwriting so it was good he was the pastor for over thirty
years.

I now have questions about Dembogora in Exin parish.

Was Dembogora a colony?

If it was, or even if it wasn't, how does it happen that there are four
Dembogoras?

Dembogora
Dembogora Abbau (surface mine?)
Dembogora Hauland (definition of Hauland?)
Dembogora Mu"hle (mill)

Was there a main Dembogora and then people from that town went to work in
the new area and that was why it kept the orginal name?
Or when someone purchased a settlement area, did they also purchase
associated areas for additional enterprises?

Then, in the parish records, there is often a fifth indication for this
town. It looks very much like "gunf" which is not a word as far as I can
tell. It could maybe be "funf" which would at least be a word but still
doesn't tell me what this could mean. Oftentimes I found this written after
Dembogora but in a different handwriting as if someone had written it in
later.

Any insights anyone can give me on these questions would be much
appreciated.

Also, I was delighted to find an ancestor Rosina Reik who died in 1837 in
Dembogora Mu"hle at 100 years of age!

In the forty years time I have been looking at I have found my family name
REIK written in the following ways: Reck (most often), Reek, Rek, Reick,
Reich, Reik. Sometimes in one marriage entry, the father and daughter's name
would be spelled two different ways. I am always trying to pin down the
original spelling of my ancestors but sometimes it's a moving target!

Gayle

Gayle Coyer
Two Harbors, MN

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From: "Birkholz, James (by way of =James Birkholz=
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Subject: RE: [POSEN] Exin information contd.


> According to Lukasz's inventory,
> http://www.polishroots.org/genpoland/records/szu_r.htm#7
> Exin was created out of Nakel in 1827.
>
> I see that film #814594 has deaths listed from 1819. Did it appear
> that the deaths were kept in a separate book? Perhaps funerals were held
> locally, with a local book in the prayer house (minister traveling to hold
> the funeral locally), but christenings and marriages were held at a church
> in a nearby parish, and recorded in their books.
>
> Possible pre-1829 records might be in the Protestant books of Nakel,
> Labishin, Schubin and Mrotschin, or even the Catholic books of Exin. Below
> is the history of the church from the Schubin Heimatbuch.
>
> Many thanks for the detailed report, also!
>
> James
>
> Also Exin came in the year 1773 to Prussia. Into and around Exin numerous
> Germans of Evangelist faith already were at this time. In the year 1784
> they built themselves in Exin a school, in which Sundays a lecture was
read
> out.
>
> By the year 1795 a praying house was built in the place of the
schoolhouse,
> which had already deteriorated, and the municipality associated itself
> first with the minister Brietmeyer in Mrotschen, then with the ministers
> Hoffmann in Schubin and Wolf from Labischin, lastly with the minister Luks
> in Nakel, who came as guest preacher every six to eight weeks to the
> service in Exin. In the meantime the municipality had grown in such a way
> that it could think of the creation of a special parish.
>
> The administrtion in Bromberg wanted Exin to become a branch congregation
> of Nakel, with which the Exiner did not agree. In the year 1826 then the
> Ministry approved the creation of a new parish in Exin and granted at the
> same time 600 Marks as yearly parish stipend from state funds. In addition
> the king granted a donation of 3000 Marks to build a parsonage. Therefore
> the introduction of the first minister could take place on the Sunday
after
> Whitsuntide 1829 (14 June).
>
> The services provisionally still took place in prayer locations, until in
> the year 1845 in Exin a solid church was built, to which the State gave
one
> third of the construction costs. The inauguration of the new brick church
> built in classical architectural style with a high tower and 4 little
> ornamental towers occured at the 1st Pfingstfeiertag, on May 11, 1845, by
> bishop D. Freymark. At the beginning of this century the church became too
> small due to several settlement villages with Evangelist population. It
was
> torn down and a new was built. The new church, an asymmetrical dual nave
> construction was established in free Gothic architectural style and
> provided space for 715 church visitors.
>
> On 30 October 1913 the solemn inauguration of the new church took place.
> The baptizing basin and the baptizing pitcher of the Exiner church became
> 1949 ev.=luth. Pc. Michaeliskirchengemeinde in Kaiserslautern made
> available. In the year 1870 the new church municipalities Schmiedeberg and
> Neukirchen were formed, which belonged up to then to Exin. In addition, in
> the year 1905, the new church municipality Lindenbrück in circles the
Kreis
> Znin was created, whose parish included villages which belonged previously
> mostly to Exin and some to Gollantsch in Kreis Wongrowitz.
>
> Although in great condition, the church was torn down after 1945, however
> the parsonage was left standing.
>
> Ministers were: 1829-1833 Karl Friedrich Werner, 1833-1867 Ludwig Theden,
> 1867-1878 Ludwig Alexander Witte, 1878-1899 Hermann Alexis Braune,
> 1899-1919 Philipp Fuß=HippeI, 1919-1920 Wilhelm Duschek, 1920-1931 Konrad
> Schulze, 1931-1939 Heinz Werner (killed Sept 4, 1939 in Hohensalza),
> 1939-1945 Waldemar Jung.
>
>
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