MINERATH
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Jean-Jacques MINERATH
(1827-1908)
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The origins of MINERATH (the name was sometimes written MINERADT,
MINORADT or MINERODT) are close to Freudenburg
(Germany).
The oldest known
ancestor is Huberti MINERATH (born before 1658),
married to Anna N., they had 9 children (7 sons and 2 daughters).
We distinguish two branches:
Branch #1: MINERATH Mickael’s (born
1681) branch, around 1737, he moved from Freudenburg
to Hillesheim (60 miles North from Freudenburg),
its descendants
were the first MINERATH to arrive in the USA (Calumet, Wisconsin) between 1848
and 1850.
This branch is
named MINNERATH (with 2 N). I found more then 2000 persons of this line of
descent (the majority are living in Minnesota).
Branch #2: MINERATH Godard’s (born 1683) branch (my branch),
like his brother, in 1737, he moved Freudenburg to a
closer city.
He arrived in Palzem (9 miles West from Freudenburg).
His grandson Johannes MINERATH moved from Palzem to
the French village of Kontz-Basse (12 miles South
from Palzem) in 1800.
His grandson
Jean Jacques MINERATH was married to Barbe SCHOLTES
(born in Elvange, Luxembourg), they moved from Kontz-Basse to Paris in 1864 or 1865.
Geography &
History
GERMANY: SAARLAND & RHEINLAND PFALZ
The Habsburgs
muddled on until the devastating Thirty Years War (1618-1648), sparked by
ongoing religious and nationalist conflicts. Europe had been simmering ever
since 1517 when Martin Luther tacked 95 suggestions for improved service to his
local church door in Wittenburg. It took a bloody
good stoush to settle everyone down and secure the
rights of both Protestants and Catholics. Germany lost a third of its
population in the process. Local princes assumed complete sovereignty over a
patchwork of some 300 states, which made it all too easy for Napoleon to come
along in the early 19th century and start adding them to his scrapbook. The
French never quite managed to subdue Prussia, which became the centre of German resistance. It was Prussia that led the
1813 war that put an end to Napoleon's German aspirations in a decisive battle
at Leipzig. In 1866 Otto von Bismarck, chancellor of Prussia, annexed most of
Germany, consolidating his position as biggest wig in Europe with a resounding
victory over France in 1871. The Prussian king, Wilhelm I, was instated as
Kaiser and a united Germany hit the world stage for the first time.
Germany is
divided into 16 federal states (Länder), each responsible for the government of
its own state, some of which look back over a long tradition. Germany has
always been divided into states but over the course of the centuries the map
has often changed its appearance. The states that exist today were established
after 1945 but have in part retained their old ethnic traditions and
characteristics as well as their historical boundaries.
Taben-Rodt, Freudenburg,
and Palzem are
actually located in Rheinland-Pfalz
(Rhineland-Palatinate). Palzem is on the Luxemburger border, Freudenburg
and Taben-Rodt are close to another state: The
Saarland. Weiten is
actually located in Saarland (0.5 mile from Rhineland-Palatinate…).
All those
villages were in Saarland before 1801
They were French
between 1801 and 1815
They were in
Saarland between 1815 and 1945
Kontz is actually located in France (1 mile from the Luxemburger border, and 2 miles from the German border)
This village was
German between 1870 and 1918
The village is
French again since 1918
Jean Jacques
MINERATH is born in France (in Kontz) in 1827 and he
died in 1908 in Germany in the same village…
Pictures (Freudenburg, Palzem, Kontz)
Freudenburg (Germany)
Freudenburg, general sight (1998)
Freudenburg, the church and the cemetery
(1998)
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Freudenburg, the castle (XIVth
century) |
Freudenburg, the castle
(1998) |
Taben-Rodt (Germany)
Taben-Rodt
(1999)
Hamm - Taben-Rodt (1999)
Palzem (Germany)
Palzem
(2003)
Contz-les-Bains / Kontz-Basse
/ Nieder-Kontz (France)
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