This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --part0_911267700_boundary Content-ID: <0_911267700@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII --part0_911267700_boundary Content-ID: <0_911267700@inet_out.mail.aol.com.2> Content-type: message/rfc822 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline From: LStass1@aol.com Return-path: <LStass1@aol.com> To: ArthurTeschler@uni-giessen.de Subject: Re: Stasswender Family History Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 22:26:53 EST Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit We are trying to find any info on our family name Stasswender. I posted a query over a year ago and got no response. My husband grandparents came from Germany from a small town named Eggstatt. Which is about 1 hr. S.E. of Munich, which we visited in 1984. We found 2 generations of Stasswenders living there at the time. When we started out from Munich that day, we didn't know if we would find any family at all. We had a 8x10 picture of a house that we had got from my husband's grandmother's house after she died. Our travel agent told us where the house was located. When we got to Eggstatt we didn't know what to do, so we went to the Catholic church. No one was anywhere to be seen. It was the coldest winter they had in fifty years. My husband went back to the car, but I was ready to give up that easy. I went into a small bakery. I hadn't been looking at any signs since we couldn't read them anyway. We had the house picture with us and I tried asking the lady if she knew where this house might be. She couldn't understand very much english, but with the picture she figured out what I was saying. After looking at the picture and then me and then the picture, she said my husband's name is Stasswender. We were both in shock! I said, what did you say? She replied, my husband's name is Stasswender. I ran out the door and started yelling for my husband , who is still setting in the car, to get over there now! She ran up to the 3rd. floor of the store/house to her mother in law's apartment and came back with her husband and mother in law and a picture album with all of our family in Texas. This was a real surprise for all of us. We had driven straight to their house without even knowing where or who we were looking for. We spent the rest of the day with them and communicated the best we could. We had to be in Frankfurt the next day to catch a plane home. We had been in Italy and Switzerland for 2 weeks on business and had to get back home. When we were leaving they gave us a 8x10 framed drawing of a family crest. On the top of the crest it said Stasswender and below the drawing it said 1560. On the back it says in old german writing ( hard to tell every letter, but I hope this is close) Stasswender A.D. 1560,Koniodins and Anna St brryl Kirnfmims gefylerht - Regensburg 1560, Wappen, Steinbork m Stienberg imf 3 Lerystdend Qimzerhelm buryl Krone mit dier Strimpenfevern, A.B.St.B. S.VII 63/5g. We didn't have time to ask them about it. We have written back and forth for every Christmas and more often in the beginning, trying to get the family history, but they don's seem to know or be interested. In 1990 I wrote to Dr. Gisela Urbanek, Bibliotheksoberratin, at Staatliche Bibliothek Regensburg. They wrote back saying that they could not find a place called Eggstatt or the name Stasswender or a family crest (plaque) like the one I had sent them a copy of. They suggested that I write Mr. Claus D. Bleisteiner, Faberstr. 9, 8000 Muchen 70, who was/is the chairman of the Heraldische Gesellschaft e.V. The magazine "Der Wappenlowe is edited by the Heradische Gesellschaft, since 1987. So I did, but have never heard back from anyone. I have sent a family tree to be filled in to the family in Eggstatt, but have not received it back. That has been 5 years ago. There are only three men in Germany with the name Stasswender. We met 2 that day. They did not have any boys the last time we heard from them. My husband and I have 2 girls and so does his brother. I guess this might be the end of the Stasswender's. If anyone has any suggestions we would really appreciate hearing from you. I hope this wasn't to long a story and it could be understood. Thanks so much to anyone who might help. Stasswenders in Texas --part0_911267700_boundary--