Hello Nancy, The animal population those days were certainly quite different to that we find today. The only poisenous snakes you find in Germany today are two sorts of vipers, ( Vipera berus and Vipera aspis). What I can tell you to Bad Kreuznach is that one can find a totally unpoisenous snake , the natrix tessellata in that aera. I recently visited Bad Sobernheim and found a signboard right in mid-town informing people about that snake. It inhabits the river valleys of Nahe, Mosel, Lahn and had been relocated to the Bad Kreuznach area a few years ago. Ursula (Buchholz) aemail: [email protected] www.ursula-buchholz.com

Hello Ursula, I suppose it's quite possible the snakes that bit my ancestors were not poisonous and that they died mainly from infection. I was just curious about what snakes existed in the area at the time. I find it odd these two children died of the same reason a year apart. Nancy > -----Original Message----- > From: Ursula Buchholz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 6:46 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [TRIER-ROOTS-L] Snakes indigenous to Bad Krueznach area? > > > Hello Nancy, > > The animal population those days were certainly quite > different to that we find today. The only poisenous snakes > you find in Germany today are two sorts of vipers, ( Vipera > berus and Vipera aspis). What I can tell you to Bad Kreuznach > is that one can find a totally unpoisenous snake , the natrix > tessellata in that aera. I recently visited Bad Sobernheim > and found a signboard right in mid-town informing people > about that snake. It inhabits the river valleys of Nahe, > Mosel, Lahn and had been relocated to the Bad Kreuznach area > a few years ago. > > > Ursula (Buchholz) > aemail: [email protected] > www.ursula-buchholz.com >