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Introduction

Rhein-Neckar-Kreis, located in  the north-west part of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, is a district (Kreis) in the Karlruhl Administrative Region  The county seat of Rhein-Neckar is located at Heidelberg.  The district covers an area of 1061.71 km, and has a population of 528,962 (2002).

     Neighboring districts are Bergstraße, Odenwaldkreis, Neckar-Odenwald, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, district-free Speyer, the     Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis, and district-free Mannheim and Heidelberg. 

     The district was created in 1973 by merging the previous districts Heidelberg, Mannheim and a big part of Sinsheim.

    It's named after the two main rivers which flow through the district, Rhine and Neckar. The highest elevation is the Stiefelhöhe near Heiligkreuzsteinach with 583 m in the Odenwald mountains, the lowest elevation with 92 m is near Ilvesheim in the Neckar valley.

Source: Wikipedia

The following are surnames of persons, found within our databases,

as having been either born, married or died in this location.

Born;   Gilbert;   Haug;   Horch;   Katterman;   Precht;   Schieck;  

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Hoffenheim;   Michelfeld;   Unterhof

Hoffenheim

LOCATION:

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Country: Germany;  State: Baden-Württemberg;  Admin. Region: Karlsruhe;  District: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis

Municipality: Sinsheim   From: Frankfurt Au Maim Airport 60549;  To: Sinsheim 74889; Total Est. Time:  1 hour, 6 minutes;  Total Est. Distance: 71.54 miles;   Coordinates: 49° 15′ 0″ N, 8° 53′ 0″ E

DESCRIPTION: The village of Hoffenheim is one of 11 communities that comprise the town of Sinsheim.   Today Hoffenheim, located 2.3 km northeast of Sinsheim, has a population of 3,286.  The village is the home of  the, “Heimatmuseum Hoffenheim”, a small rural museum housed in the historical rooms of the "Old Post", located at 12 Waibstadter Strasse.  The museum's emphasis is on the depicting of rural life, living and house keeping in Hoffenheim in the 19th century, in addition club and crafts history and the history of the gentry.

     Originally Hoffenheim was owned by two families, the von Österreichs and the von Waldenburgs.  In 1618 they had reached an agreement with the villagers, and then they reissued it in 1705.  The von Österreichs had leased their half of the village to a poor noble family, the Äscher von Bünningens.  The ruling families were Catholic, while the villagers were Lutheran.  This, and an attempt to change the old agreements regarding privileges and dues, led to friction.  The villagers appealed, over the heads of the ruling families, to the imperial commissioners.  These appeals were repeated, but brought no success to the villagers.  Due to this a typical pattern ensued where one of the villagers emigrated to Pennsylvania, and in the following three years at least thirty-two others followed.  The vacancies brought on by this mass migration were filled by an influx of Jews during the 18^th century.

INTERNET WEB LINK(s):  Sinsheim - Wikipedia;   Hoffenheim, Germany;   Heimatmuseum Hoffenheim

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Michelfeld

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Country: Germany;  State: Baden-Württemberg;  Admin. Region: Karlsruhe;  District: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis

Municipality: Angelbachtal   From: Frankfurt Au Maim Airport 60549;  To: Angelbachtal 74918;  Total Est. Time:  1 hour, 7 minutes Total Est. Distance: 67.55 miles;   Coordinates: 49° 14′ 0″ N, 8° 47′ 0″ E

DESCRIPTION: Michelfeld lies within the municipality of Angelbachtal located in Kraichgau  The name Angelbachtal comes from the valley of the Waldangelbach, which flows through Kraichgau, and from the municipality of the same name.

     In the year 831 the village of Michelfeld is mentioned for the first time in the manuscripts of the Lorsch codex.   In this document  a, free man from Mihilunfelt negotiates with the Abbott of the monastery about a sale of  land. Between the Abbott and the Michelfelder the following exchange resulted,” Mr. Emicho received meadows with a yield in “Mihilunfelt” from four Fuder hay. On the other hand the mentioned free man gave “in Sunnensheim equivalent land.        From early times Michelfeld was administered by the aristocratic family of Gemmingen.   In 1525 Weyrich von Gemmingen introduced Protestantism to the village of Michelfeld and the other areas under his rule.

     During the Thirty Years’ War in the 17^th century many of the villages in the Kraichgau region were destroyed, if tribute was not paid to mercenary armies. There was a castle in Michelfeld that was destroyed during the war in 1635.    It is reported that after the war ended in only 200 of the original 650 Michelfeld residents remained, and that a third of the houses were destroyed.  As such most of the older buildings in Michelfeld were built in the 18^th century and, to a large extent, are in the baroque style of architecture.

     The church of Michelfeld is a building from the years 1767/68. The Hessian coat of arms at the entrance portal shows the year 1767, while the coat of arms of the barons von Gemmingen at the bell tower originates from the year 1768.

The following persons are found within in our database(s), and were either born married or died at this place:   Haug, Anna;   Katterman, Dieterich;   Katterman, Hans;   Katterman, Ludwig;   Katterman, Peter;   Schieck, Margaretha

INTERNET WEB LINK(s): Angelbachtal - Wikipedia [ Translate this page ];  Angelbachtal: Information from Answers.com

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Unterhof

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Country: Germany;  State: Baden-Württemberg;  Admin. Region: Karlsruhe;  District: Rhein-Neckar-Kreis

Municipality: Dielheim;  49° 16′ 57″ N, 8° 44′ 5″ E

DESCRIPTION: Unterhof was originally founded as a feudal settlement for a local lord. Possibly this is the hamlet mentioned under around the year 860 together with Dielheim in the Lorsch codex named Hiltibrandeshusen. In 1341 Unterhof was named for the first time in documents inferiori curia (lesser or lower farm) in rent books of the Speyer office of Rotenberg. In 1401 under the name zum Nydernhofe is the first appearance of the name in the German language. For centuries the prince-bishops of Speyer limited the number of farms to three. During the Thirty Years' War the residents fled their farms and Unterhof lay deserted and overgrown for decades. After resettlement, Unterhof and Oberhof, as tenant farms of the local lords, were occasionally self-administrated. First since 1932 after a drawn out fight for their independence, the settlements belong to Horrenberg. In recent years, Unterhof has transformed itself into a residential community that is still strongly influenced by agriculture.

The following persons are found within in our database(s), and were either born married or died at this place:  Born, Theodor

INTERNET WEB LINK(s):  Dielheim - Wikipedia;  Dielheim (Official Homepage);

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This is a list of cities, and towns in the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis 

CITIES: Eberbach (Baden);   Eppelheim;   Hemsbach;   Hockenheim;   Ladenburg;   Leimen (Baden);   Neckarbischofsheim;   Neckargemünd;   Rauenberg;   Schönau (Odenwald);   Schriesheim;   Schwetzingen;   Sinsheim;   Waibstadt;   Walldorf;   Weinheim;   Wiesloch

TOWNS:  Altlußheim;   Angelbachtal;   Bammental;   Brühl (Baden);   Dielheim;   Dossenheim;   Edingen-Neckarhausen;   Epfenbach;   Eschelbronn;   Gaiberg;   Heddesbach;    Heddesheim;   Heiligkreuzsteinach;   Helmstadt-Bargen;   Hirschberg (Rhein-Neckar);   Ilvesheim;   Ketsch;   Laudenbach (Rhein-Neckar);   Lobbach;   Malsch;   Mauer (Baden);   Meckesheim;   Mühlhausen (Kraichgau);   Neidenstein;   Neulußheim;   Nußloch;   Oftersheim;   Plankstadt;   Reichartshausen;   Reilingen;   Sandhausen;   St. Leon-Rot;   Schönbrunn (Baden);   Spechbach;   Wiesenbach (Rhein-Neckar);   Wilhelmsfeld;   Zuzenhausen

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