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- [S161] FamilySearch.com, (Name: AFamily Search Ancestral File;).
FamilySearch Pedigree Resource File Johannes Jacob Hill Compact Disc #15 Pin #99732 Sex: M Event(s): Birth: 1660 Place: Enkirch, Pfalz, Bavern Christening: 1660 Place: Enkirch, Pfalz, Bavern Death: 13 Jan 1713 Place: Heuchelheim, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bavern Burial: Jan 1713 Place: Heuchelheim, Frankenthal, Pfalz, Bavern Parents: Father: Johannes Jacob Hill Disc #15 Pin #99702 Mother: Anna Catharina Schump Disc #15 Pin #99720 Marriage(s): Spouse: First Wife Unknown Disc #15 Pin #100468 Marriage: abt 1677 Place: Enkirch, Pfalz, Bavern Spouse: Anna Catharina Ammeling Disc #15 Pin #100032 Marriage: 18 Nov 1679 Place: Enkirch, Pfalz, Bavern Personal Information: Religious Affiliation:Lutheran Occupation:Farmer Notes and Sources: Notes: Available on CD-ROM Disc# 15 Sources: Available on CD-ROM Disc# 15 Submitter: Riuchard HILL 15713 NE 6th Circle Vancouver, WA 98684 Submission Search: 18880-0527100003005 URL: CD-ROM: Pedigree Resource File - Compact Disc #15
- [S394] Ancestry.com, Public Member Trees, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2006;), Database online. Jackie Peters Johnson Family Tree, Owner: Jacqueline Johnson, Last viewed: Johannes Jacob Hill, Skinner/Schinzel-Ahlemeyer/Haines Tree J_Ahlemeyer.
Record for Johannes Jacob Hill Additional Info on Johann Jacob Hill- Baptism: Abt. 1687, Enkirch Evangelisch Lutheran Church, Pfalz, Bavaria Burial: May 1739, Moselem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Richmond Township, Berks County, PA Naturalization: 1735, Philadelphia County, PA Occupation: Wealthy miller Religion: Lutheran Jacqueline Johnson added this on 14 Sep 2010 jsc1205 originally submitted this to Rousseaux Family Tree on 3 Aug 2010
Personal History of Johannes jacob HILL-
per "shill66 originally submitted this to Hill Family Tree on 21 Jan 2010"
Based on Lycombing County History (974.851, D2l), family legend indicates that the Hills were originally from Scotland. They fled to Switzerland during the rein of James II (1685-1688) because of religious persection (not likely nor supported by any evidence). After the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685), they were expelled from Switzerland along with Swiss protestants and French Huguenots, and sought refuge in the Palatinate in Germany. The whole story is unfounded and overwhelming evidence demonstrates that this history is pure fantasy. It is interesting to note that the family was writing, and likely speaking, German at least as late as 1815. It is higly unlikely that English speaking peoples could become so Germanized in one generation that they were speaking, writing and practicing German religion one hundred years later.
History of Lycoming County (974.851, H2h) indicates that family migrated from Ireland to Switzerland after the Reformation and was settled in southeastern Pennsylvania as early as 1682. This is totally unfounded and nothing more than idle thoughts which surfaced during a "vanity" flush.
Both of these accounts, written nearly 200 years after the Hills arrived, appear to be based on misinformation and / or elaboration and distortion over the years. Evidence indicates that Johannes Jacob (PA) Hill arrived with / or followed extended family members including children Johannes Jacob (the younger), Johannes Daniel and other family members including at least 1 cousin and his family and 1 nephew. None of the documented early immigrations seem to fit known information about the Hill Family nor do they record entry to Pennsylvania of any family members. It appears the Hill Family entered Pennsylvania during 1727 when records were not maintained or have not suvived. Interestingly, German church records indicate family activity into 1726, but none after, while Berks County church records appear to have family members present by 1728.
How and when the Hills settled in Germany is unclear, but they seem to have been established by the mid to later 1500's. It is possible they moved from Switzerland to the area around Enkirch as suggested by a Lycoming County History, but how and when they were in Switzerland, if at all, is presently unknown --- further research required here.
Pennsylvania Historical Setting: Pennsylvania Lt. Govenor Keith required immigrants to take an oath of allegence commencing in 1727. However, these records are incomplete. Specifically, there are no records between Oct 1727 and August 1728, September 1728 and August 1729, and September 1729 and August 1730.
A Jacob Hill owned property in the Maxatawny Valley prior to 1734. This is believed to be Johannes Jacob Hill the immigrants and head of the extended Hill Family that migrated from the Frankenthal area of the Palatine.
Johannes Jacob Hill is one of three sponsoring founders ( Also Christopher Kuhn and Sebastian Kraemer), of Moselem Lutheran Church in 1739, Richmond Township, Berks County. He died before church was completed and dedicated in 1742.
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Settled as farmer in 1728 in Maxatawney Valley near site of Kutztown.
1734 - Inhabitant of Maxatawney Valley, Philadelphia County, PA.
1734 - Land Warrant - Maxatawney Valley, Philadelphia County (200 acres on 7 May)
1735 - Witness with wife for Abraham Zimmerman, 27 July 1735 in Maxatawney Valley.
9 August 1739 - Letters of Administrationtaken by Elizabeth Mueller Hill (Philadelphia County, Book D, P. 93). Inventory apparantly done on ( 18 July 1739).
14 May 1774 - Settlement of Jacob Hill Estate (Upon death of Elizabeth Hill - wife).
Identified children as (Johann) Daniel, Frederick, John (Jacob), (Maria) Christina, (Ann) Elizabeth, and Ann (Hannah Marta). Release of property claim to John Hill for 160 Pounds, 10 Shillings on 14 May 1774. An additional 400 Pounds was paid by John Hill on 1 May 1775 to secure ownership of 200 acre estate. Recorded 26 July 1779 (Berks County, Volume 7, Page 85).
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It is likely that Johann Nicolaus Mueller, husband of Anna Maragaeha Hill (sister of Johannes Jacob Hill), is the brother of Anna Elizabetha Mueller Hill.
Jacqueline Johns onadded this on 14 Sep 2010
shill66 originally submitted this to Hill Family Tree on 21 Jan 2010; written and compiled by Richard A. Hill
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Additional Info on Johann Jacob Hill-
Baptism: Abt. 1687, Enkirch Evangelisch Lutheran Church, Pfalz, Bavaria
Burial: May 1739, Moselem Lutheran Church Cemetery, Richmond Township, Berks County, PA
Naturalization: 1735, Philadelphia County, PA
Occupation: Wealthy miller
Religion: Lutheran
Jacqueline Johnson added this on 14 Sep 2010
jsc1205 originally submitted this to Rousseaux Family Tree on 3 Aug 2010
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Personal History
Immigration: about 1720
Phila Co admin D:93, file 23 (I got this, little information)
Tax List, Maxatawny Twp, 1734
sp -> 1735, Sebastian Zimmerman and wf (Rev Stoever - missing pages book)
sp (Anna Elis) -> 1748, John Jacob Kutz and Anna Elisabeth Kempfin
?Philadelphia Deed book F-8-147, Jacob Hill bought land from Nicholas Leisher Sr and Jr and Eward Peters in 1723
Land (LCHS, Misc 1B, pg 66):
Patent Book H1, pg 339
warrant 7 May 1734
survey 25 Apr 1739
on Maiden Creek, 200 A
Berks Vol 24, pg 335-336 see als o on LCHS, Maxatawny 1 land records, pg 17 (1734/5)
Letters of Administration 9 Aug 1739 Philadelphia County, PA
Notes from estate records for Jacob. Letters of Administration granted 9 August 1739.
Inventory of 28 Jul 1739 says Jacob Hill of Saccony in _ County of Philad, Deceased
Mentions plantation of 212 acres of land with buildings and improvements
Jaunita Hill Peter
624 Garfield St Clay Center, KS 67432
Misc: Anna Elisabeth Hill M John Christian Hausknecht c 1717 where?
Frankenthal church records:
Jacob married Anna Elis. Mueller 1/8/1709
children:, bap date
Johan Jacob 11/16/171 0, sp John Jacob __ and Appelonia __
Johannes 12/30/1711, sp Johannes Hill and Ann Elisabeth
Johan Debald, 11/12/1713, sp Debald Izoff? and Magdalena ___
Johan Jacob, 1/22/1716, sp John Jacob Muller and Maria?
Johan Peter, 7/13/1718, sp Jacob Hill and Anna Elisabeth
Johan Philip, 11/5/1719, sp Jacob Hill and Anna Elisabeth
Note: Rev Stoever records, a Catharina Hill, single 1735, sp -> Peter Dunkelberger
Berks Deed 7:85, mentions warrant of 1734, died, left Jacob, eldest son,
Daniel, Frederick, John (got land), Christina (w/o George Merkel), Elisabeth
Houseknecht, and Anna (w/o Godfrey Kramer). released 17 May 1774, completed 6 Oct 1778.1117
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Per information of Richard Hill (captrah@comcast.net), this Johann Jacob Hill family entered Pennsylvania sometime during 1727, not as early as 1720, although there are no existing oath of allegiance records between October 1727 and August 1730, and oath of allegiance was not part of the PA law before 1727.
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Note: It is unclear how we make the jump of the Hill family from Heuchelheim, Germany to Windsor Twp, Berks County, PA, as I have not been able to substantiate this in any records up to this point, but am relying on on-line files from Richard Hill and Tim Conrad. Lynn B. 5/7/2009
Jacqueline Johnson added this on 14 Sep 2010
shill66 originally submitted this to Hill Family Tree on 21 Jan 2010
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~blenderman/Blenderman/Kucher/fg07/fg07_0
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History of the Zion Moselem Lutheran Church
Just south of Crystal Cave Road, between Route 222 and Virginville, is a red brick church typical of many that have stood along the rural byways of Berks County in times gone by.
According to tradition, the congregation at Moselem came into being around 1734, probably gathered together by the Rev. Johann Casper Stoever, who was an active organizer during that time and a familiar figure in Musseeley (Moselem) district - so named for a creek running through its central portion.
The oldest record books date from 1737. At that time the worshippers were more formally organized into a constituted body, which was noted somewhat cryptically in an inscription set into the wall of the 1761 edifice... “Die Gruendung der ersten Kirche was 1737.” (The establishment of the first church was 1737.)
Historian M.L. Montgomery recorded that “The purpose to build an Evangelical Lutheran church in the upper part of Richmond Township was agitated as early as 1739 by Johann Christopher Kuhn, Sebastian Kreamer, and Jacob Hill, but before it could be accomplished the latter two died, leaving the work to be finished by Kuhn.”
Jacqueline Johnson added this on 14 Sep 2010
shill66 originally submitted this to Hill Family Tree on 21 Jan 2010
- [S1180] Wikipedia, Platz, Landegebiet, etc.
Enkirch, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany (5) facts
Enkirch, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Pfalz, Germany
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Enkirch 31 08 2005.jpg
Coat of arms of Enkirch
Coat of arms
Enkirch is located in Germany within Bernkastel-Wittlich district
Coordinates: 49°58?59?N 07°07?36?ECoordinates: 49°58?59?N 07°07?36?E
Country Germany
State Rhineland-Palatinate
District Bernkastel-Wittlich
Municipal assoc. Traben-Trarbach
Government
• Mayor Karl-Heinz Weisgerber (SPD)
Area
• Total 25.43 km2 (9.82 sq mi)
Elevation 105 m (344 ft)
Population (2012-12-31)[1]
• Total 1,545
• Density 61/km2 (160/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 56850
Dialling codes 06541
Vehicle registration WIL
Website www.enkirch.de
Enkirch is an Ortsgemeinde - a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality - in the Bernkastel-Wittlich district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
Contents
1 Geography
1.1 Location
2 History
3 Religion
4 Politics
4.1 Municipal council
4.2 Coat of arms
5 Culture and sightseeing
5.1 Buildings
6 Further reading
7 References
8 External links
Geography
Location
The municipality lies below Traben-Trarbach at the mouth of a branched brook, the Ahringsbach, coming from the Hunsrück on the Moselle’s right bank, and some 52 km south of Cochem. From Enkirch to its mouth on the Rhine at the Deutsches Eck in Koblenz, the Moselle covers a distance of 102 km. Near Enkirch is a weir on the Moselle.
Enkirch belongs to the Verbandsgemeinde of Traben-Trarbach, whose seat is in the like-named town.
History
View of Enkirch from Starkenburg
It is assumed that there has been continuous habitation at what is now Enkirch for some 2,500 years, but the first traces of this go all the way back to the Stone Age.
Enkirch was already an important centre as early as Celtic times, and then on into Roman times. On 1 April 733, Enkirch had its first documentary mention in the noblewoman Adela’s will as Anchiriacum. It was mentioned for the second time on 10 February 908 by King Ludwig IV when he donated the church and manse to Archbishop Radbod of Trier. The document in question refers to the village as Ancaracha. The municipality’s name evolved through the forms Enkricha, Einkirke and Enkerich before settling on today’s form, Enkirch.
Beginning in the 11th century, Enkirch belonged to the County of Sponheim. In the 12th century, the Sponheims built the Starkenburg (castle) above Enkirch. Sometime about the year 1240, the County was divided into the “Further” and “Hinder” County of Sponheim, or Sponheim-Kreuznach and Sponheim-Starkenburg.
In 1135, the Ravengiersburg Monastery built a pilgrimage chapel consecrated to Mary on Enkirch’s outskirts. This chapel was later expanded into a collegiate church and then in 1685 it was incorporated into a newly founded Franciscan monastery. After Napoleon dissolved the monastery in the late 18th century, the church was turned over to the Catholic parish for their use.
As early as 1248, by virtue of being the Rear County seat, Enkirch was granted town and market rights along with its own jurisdiction. At that time, Enkirch was fortified and girded with a town wall and seven gates. After the feud between Countess Loretta of Sponheim and the Prince-Archbishop-Elector Baldwin of Trier, and his capture by the Countess in 1328, Loretta’s son Johann III, Count of Sponheim-Starkenburg built a new castle near Trarbach, the Grevenburg. This brought about a shift of the Rear County seat to Trarbach, and thereby a loss of importance to Enkirch, even though it was considerably bigger than Traben and Trarbach put together, even into the 19th century. Since Enkirch was fortified but now had no castle, the church, which had been mentioned as early as 908, served as a fortress church.
In 1557, Frederick II of Simmern - later Frederick III, Elector Palatine - introduced the Reformation into the Oberamt of Trarbach. Since this time, the church has been Evangelical.
For its outstanding wineries, Enkirch was already well known very early on, as witnessed by 15 formerly ecclesiastical and comital winegrowing estates.
Because of the many timber-frame houses built in the 15th to 18th century, Enkirch is also called the Schatzkammer rheinischen Fachwerkbaues (“Treasury of Rhenish Timber Framing”).[2][3]
Religion
Some 1,100 of the inhabitants are Evangelical, while about 450 are Catholic.
Politics
Municipal council
The council is made up of 16 council members, who were elected by proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the honorary mayor as chairman.
The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results:[4]
SPD CDU FWG FDP Total
2009 7 6 2 1 16 seats
2004 7 6 2 1 16 seats
Coat of arms[edit]
The German blazon reads: In Schwarz ein gestürzter Anker mit rot weißem Schach auf den Flunken.
The municipality’s arms might in English heraldic language be described thus: Sable an anchor reversed Or, each of its flukes surmounted by an inescutcheon chequy argent and gules.
Curiously, the German blazon does not mention the anchor’s tincture, although it is shown as Or (gold) on the municipality’s own website.[5]
The anchor is likely a canting charge: the German word for “anchor” is Anker, which resembles Ankerich, among other former names that the municipality has had. The oldest composition of Enkirch’s arms goes back to 1248 and already shows the two inescutcheons with the checked pattern (“chequy”), the Sponheim armorial bearing. Over time, though, the two inescutcheons were charged differently, and at one point, a third one even appeared. Once Baden and a Palatine sideline (Palatinate-Simmern, later Palatinate-Zweibrücken or Palatinate-Birkenfeld) had come into ownership of the “Hinder” County of Sponheim, the two inescutcheons showed the Palatine Lion and the Baden bend (slanted stripe), while a third inescutcheon at the bottom of the anchor showed the Sponheims’ arms. In the late 19th century, though, the old arms were reinstated.
Culture and sightseeing
Buildings
the two churches, one Evangelical and one Catholic.
Very colourful old timber-frame houses can be found in narrow, very impressive laneways that bring back some of the flair of the Middle Ages.
In the area near the church meadow are also remnants of the mediaeval town fortifications.
As well as its historical timber-frame houses, Enkirch also has many Classicist buildings built between the mid 19th century and the end of the First World War, among which is the imposing old village school. This is no longer used as a school, but together with the Terstegen-Haus, it houses, among others, the local music club. There is now a modern primary school in the village centre.
Further reading
Hans Immich-Spier: Anchiriacum - Enkirch 733 - 1983, herausgegeben von der Gemeinde Enkirch, Enkirch 1983
Hans Immich-Spier: Enkircher Annalen: Blitzlichter aus der Geschichte Enkirchs, Heimat- und Verkehrsverein Enkirch, Enkirch 1988, ISBN 3-925533-07-9
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Bevölkerung der Gemeinden am 31.12.2012". Statistisches Bundesamt (in German). 2013.
Jump up ^ Enkirch’s history at its official website
Jump up ^ Additional information from: Johann Christian von Stramberg: Enkirch. In: Johann Samuel Ersch, Johann Gottfried Gruber (publishers): Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern, I. Sektion 34. Teil, Leipzig, J. F. Gleditsch 1840.
Jump up ^ Kommunalwahl Rheinland-Pfalz 2009, Gemeinderat
Jump up ^ Enkirch’s arms
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Enkirch.
Municipality’s official webpage (German)
Brief portrait with film about Enkirch at SWR Fernsehen (German)
Enkirch at www.moseltouren.de (German)
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