Traveling Around

I'll go back to Weierhof, Germany. I put pics of the church but didn't have some of the tombstones, but now I have Mearl's pics and he took pics of the tombstones with the Krehbiel name on them. You'll have to click on the 2nd one to make it bigger, but you'll see the Krehbiel name on them. We can't prove that our family is part of these families but we could be.

We went on to Pfrimmerhof, Germany. This is a small village and a campground now. There is a Frederich Krehbiel that still lives there and has lived there (his family for about 200 years). He's almost 80. The owner of the camp lives near Frederich. His name is Walter Hetch. His family has also lived there for about the same amount of time. They aren't related (we don't think) but the families have lived as neighbors for a very long time.  Walter can interpret for us, but we haven't been able to get together with them yet. We'll try on our way back through to Frankfurt on the way home. Again, they aren't sure if we are related to the Krehbiel that is there now (or family). But it's probable that our ancestors had to have passed this way. This was a place where the family came after being pushed out of Switzerland. The Anabaptists as they are called there did not want to submit to authority and wanted to remain in the background. It makes finding out facts difficult. The Anabaptists were hiding in these kinds of places, Pfrimmerhof is not a documented village, so our GPS couldn't find it. Interesting, huh!! Can you imagine if you were one of these Anabaptists and you were running from the authorities you would find places that were not documented and hard to find. This was the case with Pfrimmerhof. And other places as well. Some were in the hills, and in caves.

I'll include some pics here.

Walter points to the older part of the house.
This  was a house and barn connected,
usually the case in this time.

The Krehbiel home - Walter Hetch and Sharon

This building was the original church in this homestead of the Krehbiel's and Hetch's.
Walter is renovating these buildings as he has time and funds. He just installed the bell
in the steeple. He will restore the area in the lower part as near to the original church as he can.

There is a graveyard for the Krehbiel's and the Hetch families. The graves are well kept, flowers, benches to sit on and reflect on those who've gone ahead. This graveyard is up in the field behind the house. Again, we could see where the Anabaptists wanted to be separate, not easily found, and not easily documented for the government to find. 

One of the Krehbiel graves.

Another Krehbiel grave, an older grave.

Just an interesting place to visit and although, not proof, to think about those who may have traveled this way. Mearl and I are looking forward to head back this way and talk to Frederich. It's really hard when we can't communicate very much. Should say not at all.

I will close for tonight, I thought I lost this just a few minutes ago, not anxious for that to happen. Sometimes I can get it to cooperate, other times, it doesn't like me at all.

Thanks for journeying with us. 

Sharon (Grabill) McMillan