Trier is divided in two cantons (counties) - one is Stadtkreis (city of Trier) and Landkreis (rural area of the city of Trier). There is no Lowenbrucke County in Saarland or Rheinland-Pfalz The closest spelling for Lowenbrucke is Lowenbruch, south of Berlin in state of Brandenburg which is a long way from Trier. W. David Samuelsen Mary Kaselnak wrote: > > I am looking for relatives of Elizabeth Betzold. Her father was Mathias > Betzold born in 1821. Her mother was Paulina Alf Betzold born in 1823. > Elizabeth was born August 12, 1854 in Trier, Lowenbrucke County > Prussia. The family moved to Cincinnati Ohio in the early 1860's. > Elizabeth later moved to Brainerd Minnesota where she died in 1941. > Please contact me with any information on this family name. Other > family names might be Paulina, Gertrude, Cornelius, or Rosalie.