Inhaltsverzeichnis
Dedication ........................................................................................................................................10
Introduction and Acknowledgement ................................................................................................11
This Is The Place ..............................................................................................................................16
The People .......................................................................................................................................17
The Location ....................................................................................................................................18
This Caused it All ............................................................................................................................20
Our place, Our Land, Home for Generations of Hollenbergs working the Soil. ............................21
Where It All Began ..........................................................................................................................22
Time before A.D. and Early Settlements and Dwellings in the Region ..........................................26
The Battle nearby at 9 A.D. with the Romans .................................................................................30
The Saxons in Westphalia ................................................................................................................36
The Long Struggle between the Saxons and the Franks ..................................................................39
Charlemagne Establishes the Tithe in the Area ...............................................................................45
Early Middle-Age Housing Details in the Area ...............................................................................53
The “Befiefing” of Old Farms in the Parish of Cappeln ..................................................................56
Changes to the Hollenberg Name ....................................................................................................59
Some Details of the Family Tree .....................................................................................................63
The chronological family tree of the ................................................................................................66
Niederste Hollenberg and Oberste Hollenberg strings ....................................................................66
Waves of Immigration to America in the 19th Century ................................................................100
The Other Hollenbergs ...................................................................................................................109
Family Problems during the 19-th Century ...................................................................................198
Total Inventory of the Family Farm in 1836 .................................................................................200
World-War I ...................................................................................................................................208
The 1920s and 1930s ....................................................................................................................214
World-War II ................................................................................................................................221
Present Generation .........................................................................................................................226
