Forwarded to the AMFREV-HESSIANS mail list: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aumag" <Aumag@web.de> To: <hessian@sympatico.ca> Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2005 12:33 PM Subject: Chronik of Michelsberg for the 750th anniversary > Dear Mr. Merz, > > My name is Andreas Göbel and I'm from Michelsberg in Germany. Some > others and I are working on a chronik of Michelsberg for the 750th > anniversary of our hometown next year. If you want to know more about > our little village, you can find some interesting information at > "www.schwalmstadt-michelsberg.de" on the Internet. > > By change I found some information of Georg and Hans Heinrich Vogel and > Johannes Wickert on the Internet, who came from my hometown Michelsberg. > I also found your E-Mail address. I write to you now because I hope that > you can tell me more about Georg and Hans Heinrich Vogel and Johannes > Wickert. > > There history is an interesting theme because today no one in > Michelsberg knows anything about these men, who were soldiers of the > hessian troops in the Revolutionary war. You could say, they are "the > forgotten children" of Michelsberg. Today no "Vogels" but still some > "Wickerts" live here in Michelsberg. On a map of 1773 you can find the > names "Johannes Vogell", "Johannes Wickert", "Hanscurt Wickert" and > "Hermann Wickert". I send it with this message as an attachment. > > The house of the Vogel brothers still exists today. It only went through > minmal changes during the last two hundred centuaries. For many years it > had been a "Dorfkneipe"(village inn), since 10 years it has become a > "Künstlerhaus" (arthouse), because two "alternative" artists and their > family live and work there. They do paintings, form sculptures etc. > Every year in the summer they organize an artist-happening. Many amateur > and professional artists from all over Germany come to Michelsberg for > this happening. Moreover most of the "Wickerts" houses exists today. You > can find some actual pictures as an attachment to this message. > > We would be very happy, if you could give us some information about the > life of the men from Michelsberg mentioned above and perhaps of other > men from my hometown, who we do not know at the moment. With your help > and your information we might be able to write an article about the > the hessian soldiers from Michelsberg for our chronik so that they > become a part of our history again. > > Many thanks for your help in advance and many greetings from > Michelsberg ! > > Andreas Göbel > > P.S.: If you reply my E-Mail please use the word "Michelsberg" in the > headline(subject), because my spamfilter normaly erases all > english messages :-) > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----