Genealogy tour for two in Bavaria to include Weissenburg im Bayern, Gunzenhausen and Neustadt an der Aisch. I visited the principal towns in December to meet with the archivist and to have lunch at the hotel where we will stay, just to check off the boxes. Personal scouting is a part of the success of […]
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Weissenburg im Bayern, Germany
A charming fortified town definitely not on the usual tourist agenda was our stopover for a leg stretch today between Munich and Dinkelsbuehl. This is a town that I had photographed for a family historian nearly a decade ago. Weissenburg im Bayern features grand sections of wall built in the 1300s and 1400s and a […]
Return to Hoechst im Odenwald – 59 years later
One of the many highlights of this current journey with Bob and Betty Whittemore was our visit to the small town of Hoechst im Odenwald on Sunday, October 4. Bob spent four weeks in Hoechst in August, 1950 as a young volunteer with the World Council of Churches. Back then, he was 22 years old […]