Ewald: I envy you your visit to Freiburg. My wife and I were there three years ago looking for traces of my Binz family who moved to Freiburg from Mahlberg. The family had a butcher shop and sausage shop there. The autobiography of my great-grandfather's brother, Gustav Binz, describes life there: "... after Easter 1863 we had to take leave of Mahlberg. At 'Unterlinden' in Freiburg, opposite Lamms Hotel, Father had bought a house, which we also should not live in for a long time. "Freiburg was a new world for us boys. The enormous Cathedral, the thronged Kaiserstrasse with its high-gabled houses, Castle hill with its 'Saltbox', which we often climbed, the 'Kanonenplatz', from whose platform one overlooks the city and also can see into the 'Himmelreich', which not above, but down in the valley gently spreads, -- then the lively little streams of clear water, which run whispering in many roads and lanes, and the elegant pavement of the sidewalks, made from identical sized grey and white pebbles, --- Swabia Gate and Martin's Gate with its beautiful picture of St. Martin who is handing down a piece of his Roman officer's cloak to that poor naked man -- all that and still much more made such an vivid impression on us young boys that our Mahlberg home and friends were soon forgotten." My great-grandfather, August Binz, didn't get along well with his father while working in the shop, and went (or was "banished") to America in 1865. The shop was sold soon after and, "He [the father, Leopold Binz] gave up the business, sold the house and moved with us to a rented flat in a house in Weber lane." The mother [Maria Anna Rieder] died in 1849 and was buried in "Freiburg's old cemetery". All this is my very amateurish translation from Gustav's booklet, and I didn't know what it said until a year after we left Freiburg, so we didn't get a chance to visit the places named in the city. Best of luck to you in your researches and time in Freiburg.