Hello List, Could someone tell me or show me a map of Bavaria's border or Bayern in about 1700-1750? Also did it change from the year about 1600? I am trying to confirm a village which may has been misspelled or transcribed incorrectly due to old hard to read documentation / records. Does Reichelshausen, Reichelsheim or possibly Reicholzheim (Mosbach) fit in the area of Bavaria or Bayern? Thank You Kurt in Michigan according to Mr Stader book: AMENT (also found spelled with these variations: Amend, Amendt) Johann, born around 1731, from "Reichelshausen or possibly Reicholzheim "in the diocese or bishophric of Wu(e)rzburg, Germany Johann arrived 1765 in Filipowa, Batschka County, Hungary; died 20 March1798 in Filipowa; married 11 April 1763 in town of Waibstadt (southwest of Mosbach in the state of Bayern, Germany) Anna Margararethe Franziska METZLER (daughter of Georg Metzler and Eva Ernst) who was born 31 August1740 in Waibstadt and died 21 April 1811 in Filipowa; Surviving children, born in Filipowa, were: 1.) Katharina born 14 Feb.1767, 2.) Anna Maria born 1 Nov.1769, 3.) Johann born 10 Nov.1775, 4.) Elisabeth born 19 March 1777, 5.) Josef born 19 March 1779, 6.) Maria Klara born 30 March 1781; Johann Ament registered with the Austrian-Hungarian government in Vienna on July 1765, designating his destination as Filipowa. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maps/bavaria_1794_crunch.jpg http://www.reichelsheim.de/index.htm Pamela Splettstoesser www.palettemasters.com -----Original Message----- From: kurt m [mailto:kurtsgenmail@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2005 3:41 AM To: BAVARIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [BAVARIA] Bavaria or Bayern borders in 1700-1750 possibly Reicholzheim Hello List, Could someone tell me or show me a map of Bavaria's border or Bayern in about 1700-1750? Also did it change from the year about 1600? I am trying to confirm a village which may has been misspelled or transcribed incorrectly due to old hard to read documentation / records. Does Reichelshausen, Reichelsheim or possibly Reicholzheim (Mosbach) fit in the area of Bavaria or Bayern? Thank You Kurt in Michigan according to Mr Stader book: AMENT (also found spelled with these variations: Amend, Amendt) Johann, born around 1731, from "Reichelshausen or possibly Reicholzheim "in the diocese or bishophric of Wu(e)rzburg, Germany Johann arrived 1765 in Filipowa, Batschka County, Hungary; died 20 March1798 in Filipowa; married 11 April 1763 in town of Waibstadt (southwest of Mosbach in the state of Bayern, Germany) Anna Margararethe Franziska METZLER (daughter of Georg Metzler and Eva Ernst) who was born 31 August1740 in Waibstadt and died 21 April 1811 in Filipowa; Surviving children, born in Filipowa, were: 1.) Katharina born 14 Feb.1767, 2.) Anna Maria born 1 Nov.1769, 3.) Johann born 10 Nov.1775, 4.) Elisabeth born 19 March 1777, 5.) Josef born 19 March 1779, 6.) Maria Klara born 30 March 1781; Johann Ament registered with the Austrian-Hungarian government in Vienna on July 1765, designating his destination as Filipowa. __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com ==== BAVARIA Mailing List ==== Have you consider the volunteering of transcribing parish records to be added to WorldGenWeb Archives for others to research? Contact mailto:dsam@sampubco.com?subject=transcribing_records

Hi, Reicholzheim is close to Wertheim and just outside Bavaria's borders today. The border between Baden and Bavaria there (the Main river) was defined by Napoleon in 1806. In 1700-1750 nothing there was Bavarian, including Würzburg. Würzburg and the whole of Franconia fell to Bavaria in the 19th century. (And even today many people there don't feel Bavarian, there are significant differences in local culture and dialect!) - Back in 1700-1750 you had the prince bishops of Würzburg and Mainz (facing off) and local gentry in that region. According to this map http://www.hoeckmann.de/deutschland/bwnord.htm it seems likely that Reicholzheim belonged to the prince bishops of Würzburg. Actually http://www.hoeckmann.de/deutschland/index.htm gives you a good idea of what Germany looked like in 1789 before the reordering in the 19th century. Regards Stefan