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IMMIGRANTS
German Ancestry Genealogy Research Museum Pfalz
The
European War of Succession (Thirty Years War 1618 to 1648) devastated
the valleys of the Rhine River from the
struggles between the French Catholics and the Hapsburgs for control
of the fertile region. For the next 100 years waves of immigrants,
many
of
them farmers,
Amish, Mennonites, who had in turn settled in this area from
farther south and Switzerland in a never quite settled search for land to
farm and freedom to practice their religion, some acclimated in the
Palatine, converting to Lutherans, many left for Amerca in
the
Auswanderung
(emigration)
accepting
passage in
ships sailing from
Rotterdam and
Amsterdam to England and then to America in an attempt by the English
reformists to settle the new colonies with Protestants.
For those of German ancestry in search of genealogy research of this period, a unique little place to visit on a family roots reverse pilgrimage is the Insititute of Palatine History (Institut für Pfaelzische Geschichte) in Kaiserslautern, Germany where Ramstein Air Force Base and Landstuhl Army base is located, and host to one of Germany's powerhouse football (soccer) teams. The Institute is a small library on the second floor of a house-office a few blocks from the Kaiserslautern municipal center, which keeps track of early records of the Palatine Immigration in the early 1700's when many German "Auswanderers" settled in the American Colonies before the revolution, especially in Pennsylvania, arriving in Phildadelpia, forming Germantown and then spreading west into what is now known as Amish country. Visit them on the web at www.institut-pfaelzische-geschichte.de (the website is in German, but personnel speak English). For family roots of German, Polish, Russian, Baltic and Scandinavian emigration 1834-1934 see Ballin-Stadt Emmigration Museum Hamburg). © Bargain Travel Europe
Institut
für Pfälzische
Geschichte und Volkskunde
Benzinoring 6
67657 Kaiserslautern
Phone +49 0631 3647-303
Map
it
Get a German
Rail Pass
Near Kaiserlautern
for German Wine Tasting and Touring
WINE AND
WURST
Bad Durkheim and the German Wine Road
and
a little bit of Frankenstein
GRAB
YOUR PITCHFORK
Monsters And The Women Who Create Them
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See Also:
Find your English ancestors MY GREAT-GREAT-GRAND UNCLE - THE EARL OF SOMETHING
Take the Fairy Tale Road in the FOOTSTEPS OF THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Visit Castles along the middle
Rhine River
RHINE
CASTLES EHRENFELS AND SOONECK
THE MICE WHO ATE THE BISHOP
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