Photographs of Wiesenmüller
In 1993 Sue Kottwitz, your webmistress, visited Wiesenmuller. Unless otherwise noted, these photos are from that pilgrimage.
In 1993 German families with the following surnames were reported to be living in Wiesenmuller. It was said that almost all families were in the process of preparing to leave for Germany. Kunkel, Grasmik, Prinz, Laub, Iskom, Helmut, Maul, Kunstman, Busch, Jakobi, Weber, Hermann, Sommer and Kolb.
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This is an old photograph of the church at Wiesenmuller. It was one of a number that were a part of a packet distributed by the German museum in Saratov in 1993. | |
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| Photo 1 - New road being built
connecting Wiesenmuller, Friedenberg, and Gnadenthau Photo 2 - Site of the church at Wiesenmuller. There is now a hospital clinic here behind the trees. Photo 3 - Hospital /clinic located where the church once was. Photo 4 - House in Wiesenmuller where a Buxman family lived before 1941. In 1993 - the home of Wilhelm and Anna Sommer. Photo 5 - German house and garden Photo 6 - German houses Photo 7 - Street Scene Photo 8 - Garden just behind a German home |
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| Photo 1 - Left wing of
Wiesenmuller school Photo 2 - Center section of Wiesenmuller school Photo 3 - Right wing of Wiesenmuller school Photo 4 - This building was where the teachers lived in times past Photo 5 - Wiesenmuller store - inside basic supplies of rice, sugar (in bricks), etc were sold |
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| Photo 1 - Wiesenmuller cemetery
gate Photo 2 - Wiesenmuller cemetery - taken from edge of village Photo 3 - Inside the Wiesenmuller cemetery - iron cross marker still standing Photo 4 - What remains of a German grave stone Photo 5 - Another German grave marker Photo 6 - Another German grave marker Photo 7 - Another German Grave marker. " hier ruft in Frieden Jakob Heffmann, geborne Dezember 1874, gestorben den... [1916?]" |
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| Photo 1 - On the banks of the
Jeruslan River, Bill Wiest and friend gather soil to take back to family
gravesites in the US Photo 2 - View of Wiesenmuller from the Jeruslan River Photo 3 - View of Wiesenmuller from the Jeruslan River Photo 4 - View of Wiesenmuller from the Jeruslan River Photo 5 - View of Wiesenmuller from the Jeruslan River Photo 6 - The Jeruslan River at Wiesenmuller |
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| Photo 1 - The Spengler home on
Street 3 in Wiesenmuller in 1964. Photo courtesy Friedrich Treise Photo 2 - The same Spengler home in Wiesenmuller, now bricked. 1993 |
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| Map of Wiesenmuller by Friedrich Treise |