Читать книгу The Great Hollenberg Saga - Heinz Niederste-Hollenberg - Страница 13

As life has gone by, and now with an opportunity to look back, I am grateful to my first wife Edda, who passed away too early in 1990, the caring and loving mother of our children Sassia and Sascha.

Sassia lives in Kentucky, near Lexington, with her partner Rick Wilke, while Sascha lives in Wald-Michelbach with his wife Kathy and is working for a US based corporation in the IT business.

A few years later, my present wife Sigi, partner and companion, helped heal the wounds and dispel the sorrows, and she has given me comfort and love ever since. Without her support, there would be great darkness.

Her son Uwe is working near Heidelberg with the software Company SAP, and her daughter Petra, who is mar-ried to Peter Zuber. They returned some time ago with their two girls, Jule and Svea, our only grandchildren, to Germany, after having lived and worked for over 15 years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Several years of research were needed, including the familiarisation with the old German letters and their sym-bols, plus the editing of texts and pictures to complete this account.

The translation of the old Latin documents might be a bit amateurish considering my engineering education, but, nevertheless, it should reflect the intentions and decisions of the superiors of the Church around 1146 AD in the land of the Saxons.

The book, after all, is very much addressing all the genealogically interested and related folks, their offspring and friends who left Europe for America centuries ago for freedom, a better life or for many other personal reasons. All of them carry the historical burden of being more or less tied to the Hollenberg name.

The immigration waves from Europe to America defined and determined in a dramatic way the historical bonds across the Atlantic with noticeable contributions by the miscellaneous genealogical tables of the “Old Hollenberg Families”.

These particulars cover several hundred years of marriages, name changes, new blood lines, off-springs, emig-rations etc., with plenty of inspiration to take those data as a starting point for new personal genealogical endea-vours.

The direct name-bearer of those many immigrants is relatively easy to trace. Others, with different names by mar-riage or otherwise, are much more cumbersome. The many personal details presented provide plenty of reasons to interconnect with all of the Hollenbergs, and can, at the same time, also be a starting point for further research in the “book of ancestors”.

In reviewing the details of the family tree, the reader is going to find, besides the two Hollenberg strings of Nie-derste-Hollenberg and Oberste-Hollenberg, many other names which are either directly or otherwise connected to the original base of the two estates which, however, started out at one place for the first time mentioned in an