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The German Baptist Brethren (Dunkers/Tunkers) started in 1708 under Rev. Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau in West Germany. Schwarzenau is in the state of North Rhine - Westphalia about 5 miles west of the Hesse state line. Below are links to look at various scannings of a small piece of the Army Map Service sheet "Central Europe" 1:100,000 First Edition "Marburg" Revised, Drawn & Photolithographed at O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 1944 published by War Office 1944.
The grid lines shown, are 1 kilometer apart dividing the map into
cells 1 km square.
The contour interval is 25 meters, so the Schwarzenau train station
is between 375 & 400 meters (1,066 to 1,312 ft.) above sea level.
Schwarzenau is at the foot of a 200 meter (656 ft.) hill which is
east of the town.
Black lines are railroads & the black circles on railroads are
railroad stations.
The fat red lines are main roads and thin red lines are secondary roads.
Fat red lines with red circles are 6 meter wide roads.
Fat red lines without red circles are 5.5 meter wide roads.
Thin red lines with red circles are 4 meter wide roads.
Thin red lines without red circles are not always motorable & often not
paved.
Circle with cross on top is a church.
Cross by itsself is a chapel.
Polygon with crosses inside is a Christian cemetery. An example of
such is the cemetery just west of the southern church in Berleburg.
Circle with 6 spikes is a watermill. How can the watermill at
Schwarzenau be so far from the river?
The color maps cover the same area which measures 2 3/8" high
(5.8 km) by 3 3/8" wide (8.8 km).
The black & white map covers 2 1/8" high (5.3 km) by 3 5/8"
(9.1 km) wide. The black & white map covers a km less in
the south & almost a km more in the north and extends a half km
further east.
I saw nothing on the map about copyright. I assume USGS had a hand in making these maps and USGS does not copyright their maps.
This page was made 8 August 1996 by me, James W. Green III
(descendant of Hans Casper Kolb (Culp) who immigrated with Rev. Mack
to Philadelphia on the Ship Allen in 1729). If you see problems, let
me know at
JamesWGreen@Juno.Com. This page was announced to the
Culp-L & Brethren-L lists 5:05 PM EDT 9 Aug 1996.
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The url of this page is
http://Genealogy.Org/~green/Brethren.html and
http://millennium.FortuneCity.Com/byker/362/Brethren.html.
(
http://members.FortuneCity.Com/jgreen/Brethren.html)
This page was put on the web 8 August 1996.
This Page was Last Updated 15 September 2001.
means added to this page since __.
This page was put on the web by
James W. Green III.
