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History

 

Summary

Chronology of Karlswalde - Summary of important events in the history of Karlswalde (permanently to be completed), By Guido Schulz

 

History

The wife of Christian Schultz, Helena Rudiger, written by Lena Schultz Unruh

The Tobias A. Unruh Biography, Diary and Family Record 1819-1950, By Abe J. Unruh and Verney Unruh (Part A) - (Part B)

The life of Christian Schultz, by Galen Koehn, 1951 (revised 1953)

Peter Schmidt from Karolswalde, talk given by E.E. Smith at a family reunion Aug. 1, 1976

The Jantzes of Karolswalde - Our Russian Prussian Ancestry, January 1993 Mennonite Family History, by Adalbert Goertz

The Dirks' trek, 1550-1983 - family reunion in Waldheim, Sask., July 2 and 3, 1983.

A brief history of Karlswalde - A German village in Russia, ancestral home of the German population of Village Hill, Lebanon, prepared by Claire Schachinger Krause for The Lebanon Historical Society February 2, 1977

Notes from a personal interview with Rev. Jacob Unruh, Halstead, Kansas, April 8, 1945, son of Peter & Maria Siebert (Unruh) grandson of Tobias Unruh - Verney Unruh

Notes from interview with Mrs. Peter Goertz, April 12, 1945, Newton, Kans., dau. of Benjamin & Susi (Siebert) Unruh; granddaughter of Tobias Unruh - Verney Unruh

From a Russian Immigrant to an American Farmer, by Gladys Smith. Written at Bethel Academy, North Newton, KS. May, 1929

The Prussian-Polish Mennonites in South-Dakota 1874 and soon after, by J A. Boese

From Karlswalde, Volhynia, to Village Hill, Connecticut, by Claire S. Krause
Journal of the American Historical society of Germans from Russia, Vol 11., No. 2, Summer 1988 (pages 31-34)

 

Documents (originals)

1857 church year book, published by the Mennonite church in Poland.
Pages that list the ministers in Karlswalde in the original (jpg):
- part 1 - part 2 - part 3 - part 4 - part 5 -
Content as in the German original (htm)
Content as an English translation (htm)

Documents about the Reedemer Evangelical Lutheran Church
Church for immigrants from the Karlswalde area
"German Village of Lebanon", Village Hill, New London County
- 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - 7 - 8 - 9 - 10 - 11 - 12 - 13 - 14 - 15 - 16 - 17 -

 

Reports about visits to Karlswalde

Visit to Karlwalde, July 19, 1996, Victor Gess

Log of trip to Karlswalde, 1994, Claire Schachinger Krause

 

 

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