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When I raved about the goldsmith at Strasbourg, Franz Bolion von der Rosen, I only briefly stopped for his son who moved to Winterburg in the Hunsrück for reasons unknown and left lots of descendants there. I won't go as far as listing them, but as I'm obsessing about Lutheran **clergymen** in my family tree at the moment, I will be exploring those lineages where I discovered some of them. So starting from our immigrant from Strasbourg: Johann Konrad von der Rosen, born Strasbourg 1599, came to Winterburg before 1627. Note that this was the time of the Thirty Years' War, so this may have been a life-saving rather than a career move. Winterburg was then the administrative centre (Amt) ruling over nearby villages such as Eckweiler and Gebroth, one of five or so districts in the tiny and fragmented microstate Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim (Upper County of Sponheim). It is situated by the Ellerbach creek, which also flows through Gebroth and joins the river Nahe at Kreuznach. He kept an inn at Winterburg and seems to have been successful in his business (as well as successfully surviving in dangerous times). He married four times (the most complete list of wives and children I found online is here). Winterburg: The former town hall built on top of the ruins of the former castle. Now a hostel for school groups (Schullandheim Winterburg). Source: Wikipedia. First time in 1627, the wife's name is unknown, and she appears to have died in giving birth to their son Hans Samson von der Rosen in December 1627. Conceivably, she could have been the daughter of the previous inn keepers? Second time in August 1628, with Elisabeth Nesselius, importantly the daughter of the local vicar **Georg Christian Nesselius** (vicar of Winterburg until at least 1622 but not sure if he was still alive in 1628), and granddaughter of vicar and inspector **Johann Conon** (see their CVs here). Note also the amusing botanical combination of Nessel (nettle) and Rose in this marriage (and the next one). They had four children together, including my ancestor Maria Ottilia von der Rosen, who went on to marry Franz Nickel Andreae in Winterburg in 1654. He was not a clergyman himself but the son of the vicar of Gebroth **Nikolaus Andreae**. I'm assuming that all Andrae people in Gebroth descend from this couple, including the lineage leading to my ancestor Catharina Elisabeth Andrae, as listed here. So far I don't know what became of the other three children of this marriage, two girls and a boy. Elisabeth Nesselius died in 1635. By December of the same year, Johann Conrad had married Elisabeth's sister Ursula Nesselius, so we're looking at another wife from a Lutheran clergy family, and funnily enough, lots of priests pop up among their descendants - mostly under the name of Roos rather than von der Rosen. And two of them presided over the parish of Gebroth for decades, looking after the family events of their Andrae cousins. Sadly the church books documenting these proceedings are lost. I'm also not sure where their previous placements were. It is already an achievement that Johann Conrad survived, found wives and raised all these kids with the Thirty Years' War raging and death and devastation all around them. The Amt (district) Winterburg was particularly hard hit, with several villages (Rehbach, Allenfeld, Daubach) remaining uninhabited for more than a decade after they were destroyed. **Hans Conrad Roos** , the first one of the four sons we know from this third marriage, was born at Winterburg in 1641. He married Anna Christina Maul in 1664. Their daughter Philippine Roos married Johann Caspar Hargart in Winterburgh in 1700 and had at least six children. Hans Conrad was the vicar of Gebroth from 1693 until his death in 1711. The second son of the innkeeper's third marriage was Johann Paul Roos born 1644. He was a Gerichtsschöffe (juryman). He married Gertrud Schmidt in 1666 and they had 11 children including **Johann Friedrich Roos** , born 1675, who became the vicar of Gebroth (perhaps as the direct successor of his uncle?) and stayed in the post until his death in 1737. I believe that previously he had held a position of Diakon in Winterburg since 1698, but that is from a mention of the surname only, so it may have been a different member of the Roos clan whose church career I haven't discovered yet. Noteworthy is also Friedrich's younger brother Johann Burghard Roos, born 1686, who was a tax collector and the father of the court official Philipp Caspar Roos (1717-1805), who has a lengthy Wikipedia entry and an equally prominent son. Friedrich's older brother, Johann Conrad Roos, born 1667, is the maternal grandfather of the poet Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721-1781) who, again, has lots of lutheran priests in his published family tree. Friedrich married Maria Elisabeth Hargart (note there was another Roos-Hargart marriage above!) at Winterburg in 1700. They had eight children. Their son **Johann Adolph Roos** , born in 1712 wanted to succeed his father in the position in Gebroth, but was rejected and had to take a position as Diakon in Traben instead. He married Justina Maria Kröber at Traben in 1740. She was the daughter of J**ohann Georg Kröber** , the vicar of Bell from 1712 to 1743. In the 19th century, Christian Roos, a descendant of the Winterburg Roos clan became the mayor of Krefeld, but I don't know where he should be attached. * * * Confused about who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

When I raved about the goldsmith at Strasbourg, Franz Bolion von der Rosen, I only briefly stopped for his son who moved to Winterburg in the Hunsrück for reasons unknown and left lots of descendants there. I won't go as far as listing them, but as I'm obsessing about Lutheran **clergymen** in my family tree at the moment, I will be exploring those lineages where I discovered some of them. So starting from our immigrant from Strasbourg: Johann Konrad von der Rosen, born Strasbourg 1599, came to Winterburg before 1627. Note that this was the time of the Thirty Years' War, so this may have been a life-saving rather than a career move. Winterburg was then the administrative centre (Amt) ruling over nearby villages such as Eckweiler and Gebroth, one of five or so districts in the tiny and fragmented microstate Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim (Upper County of Sponheim). It is situated by the Ellerbach creek, which also flows through Gebroth and joins the river Nahe at Kreuznach. He kept an inn at Winterburg and seems to have been successful in his business (as well as successfully surviving in dangerous times). He married four times (the most complete list of wives and children I found online is here). Winterburg: The former town hall built on top of the ruins of the former castle. Now a hostel for school groups (Schullandheim Winterburg). Source: Wikipedia. First time in 1627, the wife's name is unknown, and she appears to have died in giving birth to their son Hans Samson von der Rosen in December 1627. Conceivably, she could have been the daughter of the previous inn keepers? Second time in August 1628, with Elisabeth Nesselius, importantly the daughter of the local vicar **Georg Christian Nesselius** (vicar of Winterburg until at least 1622 but not sure if he was still alive in 1628), and granddaughter of vicar and inspector **Johann Conon** (see their CVs here). Note also the amusing botanical combination of Nessel (nettle) and Rose in this marriage (and the next one). They had four children together, including my ancestor Maria Ottilia von der Rosen, who went on to marry Franz Nickel Andreae in Winterburg in 1654. He was not a clergyman himself but the son of the vicar of Gebroth **Nikolaus Andreae**. I'm assuming that all Andrae people in Gebroth descend from this couple, including the lineage leading to my ancestor Catharina Elisabeth Andrae, as listed here. So far I don't know what became of the other three children of this marriage, two girls and a boy. Elisabeth Nesselius died in 1635. By December of the same year, Johann Conrad had married Elisabeth's sister Ursula Nesselius, so we're looking at another wife from a Lutheran clergy family, and funnily enough, lots of priests pop up among their descendants - mostly under the name of Roos rather than von der Rosen. And two of them presided over the parish of Gebroth for decades, looking after the family events of their Andrae cousins. Sadly the church books documenting these proceedings are lost. I'm also not sure where their previous placements were. It is already an achievement that Johann Conrad survived, found wives and raised all these kids with the Thirty Years' War raging and death and devastation all around them. The Amt (district) Winterburg was particularly hard hit, with several villages (Rehbach, Allenfeld, Daubach) remaining uninhabited for more than a decade after they were destroyed. **Hans Conrad Roos** , the first one of the four sons we know from this third marriage, was born at Winterburg in 1641. He married Anna Christina Maul in 1664. Their daughter Philippine Roos married Johann Caspar Hargart in Winterburgh in 1700 and had at least six children. Hans Conrad was the vicar of Gebroth from 1693 until his death in 1711. The second son of the innkeeper's third marriage was Johann Paul Roos born 1644. He was a Gerichtsschöffe (juryman). He married Gertrud Schmidt in 1666 and they had 11 children including **Johann Friedrich Roos** , born 1675, who became the vicar of Gebroth (perhaps as the direct successor of his uncle?) and stayed in the post until his death in 1737. I believe that previously he had held a position of Diakon in Winterburg since 1698, but that is from a mention of the surname only, so it may have been a different member of the Roos clan whose church career I haven't discovered yet. Noteworthy is also Friedrich's younger brother Johann Burghard Roos, born 1686, who was a tax collector and the father of the court official Philipp Caspar Roos (1717-1805), who has a lengthy Wikipedia entry and an equally prominent son. Friedrich's older brother, Johann Conrad Roos, born 1667, is the maternal grandfather of the poet Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721-1781) who, again, has lots of lutheran priests in his published family tree. Friedrich married Maria Elisabeth Hargart (note there was another Roos-Hargart marriage above!) at Winterburg in 1700. They had eight children. Their son **Johann Adolph Roos** , born in 1712 wanted to succeed his father in the position in Gebroth, but was rejected and had to take a position as Diakon in Traben instead. He married Justina Maria Kröber at Traben in 1740. She was the daughter of J**ohann Georg Kröber** , the vicar of Bell from 1712 to 1743. In the 19th century, Christian Roos, a descendant of the Winterburg Roos clan became the mayor of Krefeld, but I don't know where he should be attached. * * * Confused about who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

Among the inlaws of Conrad von der Rosen, who came from Strasbourg to settle in Winterburg in the Hunsrück area, we find the vicar and church inspector Johann Conon who gets a lot of praise in texts relating to the von der Rosen family history and also in the Monatshefte, but is vilified in a history of the town of Trarbach. So let's get to the bottom of that: * * * **Johann Conon** He was born around 1542 in Reichenbach (Vogtland). He studied theology in Rostock and Strasbourg, spent two years as an assistant priest in Mundolsheim, Alsace, then became the court priest of the Counts of Winneburg in Beilstein (Mosel). From 1572 to 1575 he was the Diakon (assistant priest) of Trarbach, serving under the very popular priest Heinrich Henning who was the first protestant vicar of that town, which at the time had between 1000 and 1200 residents and was the adminstrative capital of the Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim (Upper County of Sponheim). The town was in principle Lutheran but it appears that some people including Henning had Calvinist inclinations. (Note that Calvinism wasn't recognised in the Augsburg settlement of 1555.) Diakon Conon together with an unnamed Diakon of neighbouring Enkirch wrote a letter of complaint about those Calvinist tendencies to the authorities in Zweibrücken, resulting in the removal of both Henning and the vicar of Enkirch, Heinrich Gallus in 1574. Reporting the events in the book _Trarbach in alter Zeit_ , dating from 1909, author Ernst Schütz creates the impression that Conon acted maliciously against a universally popular parish priest, which at the next "Visitation" from the authorities led to the good people of Trarbach denouncing Conon for all sorts of misdemeanors, such as playing cards and running up debts in the local inns. Apparently he was also fond of hunting and fishing, and a good businessman. As a result of the "troubles in Trarbach" as other sources put it, Conon was moved to a smaller town, Dill, where he became vicar, so it isn't exactly a punishment as he moved to a higher rank in the clergy albeit in a smaller parish. He stayed there for a year, 1575-76. As if to prove that the authorities were really on his side in the troubles he faced, he was then made the court preacher of Birkenfeld and inspector of the districts of Allenbach, Birkenfeld and Herrstein, a role which he fulfilled until 1602 (not sure what happened then?). Mentions of his name in the Monatshefte mostly refer to his official actions as an inspector, such as installing or removing clergymen in various positions around the area, or commenting on their merits, so he appears to have been carrying out his duties as he should. (Although I also recall seeing a statement from someone who was disappointed after following Conon's recruitment recommendation.) Birkenfeld in an engraving after Merian. Source: Wikipedia On 18.12.1600 he held the _Leichenpredigt_ (funeral sermon, a tradition going back to Martin Luther) for Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld in Meisenheim, which has also been published in print. (The count's main claim to fame, I just learned, is that he is the ancestor of the future kings of Bavaria.) Around 1573 he married Anna Gräf (Croef). Their children include: Ursula, who in 1602 married Georg Christmann Nesselius, who from 1600 to 1602 was the schoolmaster and Diakon at Birkenfeld serving under Conon, see his CV below. Their daughter Elisabeth married Johann Conrad von der Rosen, the son of the Strasbourg goldsmith. After Elisabeth died, he married her sister Ursula (blog entry on their descendants coming soon). Hans Konrad 1577, died the same year Margaretha 1578 died 1579 Petrus 1579 Sara 1581 Johannes 1583 died 1602 Christina 1585 Karl 1587 died 1602 Dorothea 1588 Friedrich 1590 * * * And while we're here, I'll add a short bio of his son-in-law, the priest Christian Nesselius, about whom we don't know quite as much. In fact, I have come across an amazing number of such cases where the clergyman's daughter marries another clergyman, often carried on across several generations, like we have in the Weiß Chronicles as well. One could describe this as matrilinear, as the daughter of the Pfarrersfrau (vicar's wife) becomes a Pfarrersfrau again. So in the Weiss Chronicles we have Elisabeth Hammers - Catharina Elisabeth Ebner - Maria Elisabetha Weiß. Which makes sense as this role came with a whole host of social obligations as well and the daughters could be trained for it from an early age. Church historians like Friedrich Back and O. Penningroth are good at pointing out these connections. Watch out for a separate entry on this phenomenon coming soon. Anyhow, here comes Conon's daughter and her husband: * * * **Georg Christmann Nesselius** Born in Speyer From 1600 to 1602 was the schoolmaster and Diakon at Birkenfeld serving under Conon. in 1602 married Ursula Conon, daughter of Johann Conon, his boss. Their daughter Elisabeth Nesselius was born 1606 Winningen 1603-1616 he was Diakon (assistant priest) in Winningen. In these years he had to temporarily take on the tasks of the vicar on two occasions when the position was vacant, but each time he failed to get promoted to get the job permanently. From 1606 to 1607 he had was the acting vicar after Johannes Porta was dismissed. Petrus Merkator, the vicar of Gödenroth was then moved into the position. Merkator died of the plague (which had also killed four of his children within a fortnight) on 28.10.1611. Although the members of the parish supported Nesselius as the permanent replacement, Konrad Greulach was installed in the post in 1613. Protests only subsided when Nesselius became vicar of Winterburg in 1614. Greulach also died of the plague, in 1623. In 1628 Elisabeth Nesselius married Johann Conrad von der Rosen, the son of the Strasbourg goldsmith. On 10.6.1633 he is no longer alive as his daughter Ursula marries Andreas Quinckh from Kreuznach. * * * > Long story short: Conon the contrarian becomes a respectable inspector and his daughter marries his deputy. PS More treasures from the Trarbach book to follow next week. Oh, and a potted history of the town is also in the pipeline. * * * Confused about who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

I recently revisited the family history around the Weiß chronicles, which I hadn't touched in a long time, and discovered quite a few new things and some old things that I knew superficially but never investigated in depth. Among the latter is an ancestry line that came to the Hunsrück from Liège via Strasbourg and included a goldsmith or three. Specifically, my ancestor Johann Conrad von der Rosen was born 1599 in Strasbourg, came to Winterburg (not far from Eckweiler) and married Elisabeth Nesselius (daughter of another protestant priest, more about that in a separate entry) and settled as an innkeeper and "Gerichtsherr" (juryman?) at Winterburg where he died in 1656. His father, Franz Bolion von der Rosen is the goldsmith whose story I want to explore here. He worked at Strasbourg from 1579, so quite possibly in the rue des orfèvres, just northwest of the cathedral. Although it was only named thus in 1680, this street housed goldsmiths since the Middle Ages. Photo: Par Nikolai Karaneschev, CC BY 3.0, According to old family histories where he pops up, he was world famous in his time, see for instance this text from Karl Heinz Armknecht from the 1950s. As one of the genealogists who mention him pointed out, he has an entry in Thieme-Becker Künstlerlexikon, where I could track him down. As they spell him as Roosen, he appears in vol 28: Ramsden–Rosa. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1934, on pp 583-584: Basically the entry lists like a dozen sculptures by him that were known to be in the art collection of Elias Brackenhofer (1618-1682). I love they way the author specifies for each single item that the figure is naked. With classical sujets like Venus, Cupid et al. you would rather expect that they aren't wearing too many clothes but this entry spends a significant fraction of its word count on spelling that out every single time. Note also that the dictionary has nearly 150,000 entries so being included doesn't quite make you a household name. Apparently he had to flee from Liège to Strasbourg where he is recorded in 1579 (although I've failed to find a specific event at that time that might have endangered his life in Liège). At that time he was simply Franz von der Rosen. The Bolion being an extra he acquired upon acceptance into the goldsmiths' guild in Strasbourg, which happened before his marriage to Ottilia Flach on 21.1.1581 in St. Thomas church, Strasbourg. Which is interesting because ... Ottilia is from the Flach family that appears in Albert Schweitzer's family tree (his maternal line great-grandmother was nee Flach), and Schweitzer used to play the organ in St. Thomas church when he studied in Strasbourg some 320 years later. (Find Ottilia on GedBas too.) Anyhow, what troubles me is that the world-famous goldsmith has been completely forgotten outside the circles of genealogists who proudly present him in their family trees. While there is a family "de Rosen" in Liege, the members who turn up online tend to be much more recent than our refugee, apart from the earliest ancestor, Pierre Rosen, who was a citizen of Liège in 1520. So he could theoretically be the father of our earliest ancestor, the father of the Strasbourg goldsmith: Humbert / Humprecht Bolion von der Rosen born ca. 1530 in Liege, mentioned 1544-53 as an engraver in the guild list of the goldsmiths of Liège, married Gertrud de Pealier before 1560, then Ursula Meyer in Strasbourg in 1562, which seems to suggest that he came to Strasbourg earlier than the first date noted for his son. One generation on, we're running out of Roses, but his father in law, Jean de Pealier, was mentioned as an engraver and member of the goldsmiths' guild at Liège from 1548-54. His wife was called Marie Surdelle (which sounds like a made-up name as it translates as "sure of herself"). So we have a whole lot of goldsmithery going on here across three generations, shame that these people have fallen into oblivion. * * * Who is who? - see my new name index for all things family history.

On Thursday, police received reports of break-ins at homes on Brookmill Place, Winterburg Walk and Rhine Falls Drive in Waterloo.

On Thursday, police received reports of break-ins at homes on Brookmill Place, Winterburg Walk and Rhine Falls Drive in Waterloo.