On Mar 14, 2006, at 11:00 AM, "Terry and Susan" wrote: > Hi to all > > I have recently joined the mailing list. My great-grandparents > were George Aschenbrenner and Monika Bredl. They were ethnic > Germans born in Markt Eisenstein in Bohemia, a couple of miles from > the Bavarian border. This town is now Zelezna Ruda in the Czech > Republic. George and Monika immigrated to northern Wisconsin in > 1877 with two young children. I am interested in finding out as > much as possible about life in the Bohmerwald villages. Does > anyone else on the mailing list have family roots in Markt > Eisenstein? Or Aschenbrenner or Bredl ancestors? Any good sources > of information (in English) out there? > > By the way, I have found the mailing list discussions on Bohemian > history fascinating! A great learning experience! Thanks for any > assistance you can provide! > > Susan My wife, born Lieselotte Waldek, daughter of Dr. Karl Waldek, was brought up in Markt Eisenstein to the age of 5, when they were expelled. She would have been born there, as her sister was, but the nearest hospital was in Zwiesel, Bavaria, just across the border, so she was born in Germany (actually, she would have been born in Germany anyway, since Markt Eisenstein was in Germany, thanks to Munich, when she was born!) The best source of info on Eisenstein is from a friend of ours named Wudy, who lives in Zwiesel, but unfortunately he is not on the internet. There is also a book - “The Hilgart Family, from Eisenstein, Bohemia, to Northern Wisconsin — A Three Hundred Year Journey,” written by the cousins Albert R. Hilgart and Cheryl Hilgart Grohn, that might be useful. My wife's family, however, is not from Eisenstein - her father's people are from Winterberg and her mother's from Pisek. Dan Killoran