In a message dated 7/27/2002 3:24:36 PM Eastern Standard Time,
smittysix@juno.com writes:
Hello,
Can someone educate me on the Lutheran churches that would have been
around at the time of the great migration? Say 1833 and prior? I have
always wondered if the missing records from the Catholic church of St.
Vitus would have been because those people converted to Lutherism.
I know very little of the state of the churches after Luther. I
did read somewhere that the Catholic church was trying to bring folks
back after Luther. At the time of the migration only about 20% remained
faithful to the catholic church.
Any idea's where I can read up? I am especially interested in
the area's of Visbek, Vetchta, (probably all catholic) Erlte, Hagstette.
I know Hagstette is a farm, . If these area's were ruled by the
Catholic church, and a Lutheran church did popup where would it of been?
I have ran across very few Heckmann's that were catholic.
Any help on a course of study would be appreciated. I am especially
interested in ANY information on Erlte and the surrounding areas.
Fred Rumps article was very informative. Since my St. Vitus stuff says
that Johann Heinrich Heckmann was a Heuerleute in Erlte. I kinda want to
explore what that is about.
Thanks,
Lorrie Heckman Smith smittysix@juno.com
May God be between thee and harm, in all the empty places you must walk.
Remember If God brings you to it - He will bring you through it.
Researching Heckman(n), Schillmoeller,Haas, Bergmann, Boecker, Berning,
Smith,Barga,Mertz,Dotson, Ratterman,Brussell,Keesee
Hello Lorrie,
I don't know any specifics, but I can tell you that there was a Lutheran
church in the Visbek-Langförden area. I don't know much about it, but there
was a book published on the history of this church community in 1997.
I think this is a link that I saw for an auction on the book on ebay.de:
http://cgi.ebay.de/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1548388075&r=0&t=0&
showTutorial=0&ed=0&indexURL=0&rd=1
Good luck,
Don Meyer