beeves wrote: > Hi list members- I am interested in getting some history info about the > area of TRIER/BORG/PERL/SAARBURG. My Biewer family's origin > has been listed as Borg near Perl, Saarburg,Trier Prussia. My problem > is Which of this list would be the CITY - I realize that many times our > families listed a City and a larger City as its birth locations. Borg is a village near the larger town of Perl. According to Wikipedia <http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_(Saarland)> the populaton of Borg is 390 and that of Perl 6666. It's fairly common in Germany for villages to be identified as near other towns. This is because there are often several villages with the same name and also because some villages are so small that to locate them you need to know the next larger community. Hence, Borg near Perl. As to Saarburg, it is a city. But in the past it was also a Kreis, a political jurisdiction similar to an American county. The boundaries of the Kreis have changed and it's now Kreis Trier-Saarburg, in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate). Trier is also a city, but the area around Trier was at one time a German state, in English called the Electorate of Trier, often shortened to just Trier. After the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815), the former Electorate of Trier became part of Prussia, eventually in the Rhine Province of Prussia. I'd have to hunt up some old maps to determine if Borg and Perl were also part of the Rhine Province, but today they are both in the German state of Saarland, which didn't exist until the 1950s. As you can see, boundaries changed frequently in this part of Germany. "Borg near Perl, Saarburg, Trier, Prussia" would seem to conflate information from several different historical periods, but seems to refer to the village of Borg, near the village of Perl, in the Kreis of Saarburg, in the one-time Electorate of Trier, in Prussia. Hope that helps, Kathy

Dear listies, the town of Borg is located near Perl, as this is correct Kathy wrote. But the political situation is not correct. Perl is the head of the community Borg belongs to. This is something like Perl would be an american township and Borg is the part of it. The offices, school, Kindergarden will be located in Perl and Borg is mostly a living place. Perl and Borg belongs to the county of Merzig-Wadern (car plate sign MZG) and this county belongs to the state of Saarland. Saarburg belongs to the county of Trier-Saarburg in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz (english Rhineland-Palatinate). Werner LICHTER kql <lenerz@worldnet.att.net> schrieb: beeves wrote: > Hi list members- I am interested in getting some history info about the > area of TRIER/BORG/PERL/SAARBURG. My Biewer family's origin > has been listed as Borg near Perl, Saarburg,Trier Prussia. My problem > is Which of this list would be the CITY - I realize that many times our > families listed a City and a larger City as its birth locations. Borg is a village near the larger town of Perl. According to Wikipedia the populaton of Borg is 390 and that of Perl 6666. It's fairly common in Germany for villages to be identified as near other towns. This is because there are often several villages with the same name and also because some villages are so small that to locate them you need to know the next larger community. Hence, Borg near Perl. As to Saarburg, it is a city. But in the past it was also a Kreis, a political jurisdiction similar to an American county. The boundaries of the Kreis have changed and it's now Kreis Trier-Saarburg, in the state of Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland-Palatinate). Trier is also a city, but the area around Trier was at one time a German state, in English called the Electorate of Trier, often shortened to just Trier. After the end of the Napoleonic wars (1815), the former Electorate of Trier became part of Prussia, eventually in the Rhine Province of Prussia. I'd have to hunt up some old maps to determine if Borg and Perl were also part of the Rhine Province, but today they are both in the German state of Saarland, which didn't exist until the 1950s. As you can see, boundaries changed frequently in this part of Germany. "Borg near Perl, Saarburg, Trier, Prussia" would seem to conflate information from several different historical periods, but seems to refer to the village of Borg, near the village of Perl, in the Kreis of Saarburg, in the one-time Electorate of Trier, in Prussia. Hope that helps, Kathy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TRIER-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sie sind Spam leid? Yahoo! Mail verfügt über einen herausragenden Schutz gegen Massenmails. http://mail.yahoo.com