Re: Schille Relationships
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Re: Schille Relationships
David Dardinger 3/07/03
I am very familiar with Annette Burgert's book Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America. I purchased a copy soon after it was published. I held the book for a couple or more years then donated it to Reeb Families Association. If I remember correctly, in fact, many if not the majority of the families mentioned in the book did come from the area where Keskastel is located. If you look in the front matter of the book you will note that maps of the different segments of the northern Alace are provided. One is the Nassau-Saarwerden region and there is one map which actually shows the dividing lines between the different villages. In fact, my own direct line of Reeb ancestry appears in this book in two or three pages. Burgert's primary source of information appears to have come to her from a gentleman whose source was the compiled records of Dr. Gerhard Hein. I personally had heard from Dr. Gerhard Hein long before this book was published so was very familiar with his work. His compiled records are now on a CD ROM set entitled Familienbücker Krummes Elsass. As to Keskastel's location, no it is not in southern Alsace but is located in what is now the western most area of the French department of Bas-Rhin. Bas-Rhin is the modern name given to the area which was previously known in Europe as the lower Elsass/Alsace. Lower Alsace IS Northern Alsace. Keskastel is on the west side of the Vosges mountain range which in earlier times were usually thought of as the dividing line between Alsace and Lorraine. In November of 1793 the area where Keskastel, Herbitzheim, Pisdorf (now Bischtroff-sur-Sarre, Altweiler, Rimsdorf, Harskirchen, Herbitzheim, Wolfskirchen, and other villages are located were annexed by France to Bas-Rhin this then placed Keskastel in the area traditionally known as the lower Alsace (northern Alsace). This specific area is often referred to by the French as Alsace Bossue meaning Hunchback Alsace. Since Burgert relied heavily upon the compiled records of Dr. Gerhard Hein, many of the families in her book certainly did come from the region where Keskastel is located. This area is directly south of Saarbrücken, Germany. Keskastel, Herbitzheim, Bischtroff-sur-Sarre all lie on the east bank of the Sarre river. Friedrich Schille had a son named Jacob who married Dorothea Deutsch and a grandson named Jacob Friedrich who was a son of his son Friedrich. Friedrich Schille senior was a Reeb descendant in his own right, he was also married to Eva Margaretha Reeb, and his son Friedrich was married to Magdalena Reeb.
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Re: Schille Relationships
David Dardinger 3/07/03