Translated and Paraphrased from the book "Talheim in der Baar"
In addition to the church books, there exists a history, "Grundbuch des Bezirks", in the archive of Ludwigsburg which begins in the year 1570. While the church books list which families were already living here and which names came later, we find in the Grundbuch which families owned land. In this old Lagerbuch from 1570 it shows 44 families at that time had real estate, owned or fief posession (Lehensbesitz ?) There were 25 surnames. Outside of these families we find 29 rural families that owned no land. They were either craftsmen or day laborers. These original land owning families were: Cleinhans, Manger, Bernhart, Oefinger, Honsel, Hermann, Lybering, Jurion, Schweizer, Wilhelm, Hoelderlin, Schroepfer, Bidermann, Voetchin, Knopf, Ulrich, Strom, Kattler, Gassenmann, Strommayer, Mueller, Venis, Heuss, Buol, and Oestlin. Without land there are: Beck, Bock, Deiss, Haller, Veitz, Heidecker, Haug, Haps, Hauser, Bessler, Heysskopf, Huber, Jaeger, Keller, Konz, Kremm, Kupferschmied, Link, Lorer, Mayer, Mayssle, Mesmer, Nigel, Ramayer, Reiser, Foeffle, Schrepfer, Schuler, Schwanz. After the Thirty-Year War there were of the original 25 families only 11 present. From these early families we still in this day (1954) find Leibring, Schweizer, Irion, Ulrich, Kattler, Messle (Mayssle, Moest) and Kremm. After the Thirty-Year War there came to the area Kohler, Vosseler, Neipp, Held, ReiserJillaine's Home Page | Contact Me | ©1999-2005 Jillaine Smith