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Valley of the Dolleren

Canton of Masevaux


Cheryl L Morgan & Jean Pierre Gasser


Village Family
Rimbach-pres Masevaux ERHART/ERHARD
Oberbruck GREWEYER
Dolleren STEGER, KACHLER
Wegsheid BOVE
Houppach and Bourbach le Haut BELTZUNG/PELSON


Rimbach pre-mas,, Rimbach pre-mas was the home of the ERHART/ERHARD family from 1570. Jean Georges ERHARD married Anne Marie TSCHAEN and moved to Bitschwiller in 1706 when their son Martin ERHARDwas born. Their descendant linked to both the HALLER/OLANIE line and the REBISCHUNG/GSTALTER line in Bitschwiller. The members of the ERHART family include:
ERHART Joseph (1570 - 1617) Rimbach
m. 1570 in Sewen to  ILTIS Apollonia  (b. 1570)
-- ERHARD Jean (1598 - 1670)Rimbach
  m. 1632 in Sewen to MONSCHATTIN Eva 
----ERHARD Nicolas  (1635 - 1717) Rimbach
    m. 1660 in Sewen to STEGER  Marguerite (1637 Dolleren)
------ERHARD Jean Georges   (b. 1661) Rimbach 
      m. 1686 in Sewen to TSCGAEN Anne Marie (1670 - 1734 Bitschwiller)	
--------Martin ERHARD (b. 1706)  Bitschwiller
        m. to  SCHERRER Francoise  (1710 - 1759) Bitschwiller
----------ERHARD Francoise (b. 1747) Willer
          m. 1777 in Willer to STOERKLEN Nicholas (1751 - 1821) Bitschwiller

The GREWEYER family is from Oberbruck near Dolleren. Anne Catherine GREWEYER born about 1681 in Oberbruck married Jean Adam SCHMID of Bitschwiller in 1701. The family remained in Bitschwiller, subsequently marrying into the HALLER/OLANIE family.

Dolleren, is the home of the STEGER family who married into both the HALLER/OLANIE line and the REBISCHUNG/GSTALTER lines in Bitschwiller. The earliest mention of STEGER is Nicolas born in 1590. Nicholas STEGER married a girl from the village, Christine KACHLER (b.1596) in 1617 in Sewen. Their son Michel STEGER (1615-1693) became the Maire of the Sewen Vallee. He married Anne Marie REIN (b. 1616) of Sewen in 1636. Their daughter Marguerite STEGER (b. 1637) married Nicholaus ERHART and moved to Rimbach-pres-Mas.

Wegsheid. Our one link to the village of Wegscheid is Catharina BOVE who married Andreas BELTZUNG of Bourbach and moved to that village around 1690.

Houppach and Bourbach le Haut The BELTZUNG family can be traced to 1550 with Jean L'aine PELSON born in Houppach. His son, Jean le Jeune BELTZUNG who was born 1580. Jean le Jeune BELTZUNG was a woodcutter. He moved to Masevaux and married Walbourque GLADEY in 1603. Their son, Conrad BELTZUNG (1607 - 1677) was born in Masevaux and there married Anne MARTIN in 1642. They moved to Bourbach le Haut, where their son Andre BELTZUNG was born in 1643. Andre BELTZUNG married Catherine BOVE from Sewen in 1683. The family then settled in Bitschwiller where Auguste BELTZUNG was born in 1692. The family stayed in Bitschwiller and married into the GSTALTER/REBISCHUNG family. The BELTZONG's include:

PELSON, Jean l'aine (1550) Houppach
--BELTZUNG, Jean le jeune (1580)
  m. 1603 in Masevaux  to GLADEY, Walbourque 
----BELTZUNG, Conrad (1607 Masevaux-1677  Bourbach le Haut) 
    m.1642 in Masevaux  to MARTIN Anna (1609 - 1693) Masevaux
------BELTZUNG Andreas  (1643-1699)  Bourbach le Haut
      m. in Sewen to BOVE Catherina  (b. 1661 Wegscheid)
--------BELTZONG, Augustinus  (1692 -1751)  Bitschwiller
        m. 1716 in Willer to Catharina SCHERER (1696-1737) Bitschwiller
----------BELTZUNG, Catherine (1748) Bitschwiller
          m. to  MUNSCH, Antoine (1743-1815) Bitschwiller


Postcard Views of Masevaux

Two volumes of postcard views of the valley of Masevaux (including postcards of: Rimbach, Oberbruck, Dolleren, Langenfeld and Bourbach-les Haut), compiled by Jean-Marie Ehret, Monique and Georges Redhaber, Bernard Sutter and Daniel Willme, have been published by the Centre de Resources des Vosges du Sud: La vallee de Masevaux a l'oree du siecle (1894-1914) (1995) and La vallee de Masevaux 1914-1918 (1997). Information can be obtained from M. Armand Laurent, 1 rue du Buhl, 68290 Dolleren


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