♂ Christoph NEUHARDT
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Ehepartner und Kinder
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18. Juli 1627
Nothweiler, Duchy of Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire |
Margareta OSTERTAG
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Notizen zu dieser Person
Biography Christoph Neuhart (1599 - 1654), the son of Valentine and BarbaraNauert, brings yet another variant on the spelling of the Neuhartname. This spelling remains the current and most popular version. Itwas Christoph Neuhart who brought the Ostertag (Ostertag means EasterDay in English) name into our ancestral tree. He married MargaretOstertag (abt 1605 - aft 1667) who was the daughter of Marzolph (Marx)Ostertag (abt 1560 - 1619). Christoph and Margaret lived through and raised their family in aparticularly difficult period. The religious upheavals of themid-1500s had given birth to several protestant religions inopposition to the parent Catholic church. With the dawning of the newcentury, there were strong feelings that ranged from the belief thatthe Catholic church should be unified and restored as the only churchin Europe, to, equally strong feelings that the Protestant reformswere the correct interpretation of the Christian faith. By the early17th century these factions had crystalized their positions and hadlarge followings that reached to high levels in the government. Somewere willing to go to war to protect their beliefs. While the Thirty-Year Wars that followed may have been originallyjustified by the participants on religious grounds, it soon became anopportunity to pursue economic and aggressive agendas. For example,Spain who held much of the territory which is now the Netherlands hadlong sought an overland route between her possessions in Italy and theNetherlands. The lands of our ancestors lay directly in their path. In the end, the period between 1618 and 1648 saw several waves ofarmed forces sweep across Europe with devastating results. Villagesand houses in the paths of these armies became the providers of foodand supplies needed to keep the armies functional. The problem was further exacerbated by the return of the bubonicplague in 1635/36. In this period the county of Wegelnburg lost over75% of its population, 66% of the residences, 85% of the horses, 82%of the cattle, 83% of the goats and 100% of the sheep. Schoenau wherethe population was 102 persons in 1634 was reduce to 2 families. Atleast 62 people were buried in the wake of the Black Death in Rumbachduring 1635/36. These burials were found in a concentrated area of theRumbach cemetery just outside the main entry to the church during the1957 renovation of the structure. During the hostilities, the Rumbachchurch was on the village side was hit by cannon fire about November1635, but this was apparently repaired by 1638. The population of the area around Rumbach remained very sparse for thenext 50 years, with only 40 families in the County of Wegelnburg in1676. Then, following the period of the Thirty-Year Wars, there wererepeated "Wars of Reunion" which combined with plague and famine keptthe population low.
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Ancestry.com Family Trees, Neuharth Family Tree by njneuharth
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Ancestry.com Family Trees, Neuharth Family Tree by njneuharth
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Ancestry.com Family Trees, Neuharth Family Tree by njneuharth
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