Glandorf (Ohio)
| Glandorf, Ohio | |||
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Location in Ohio
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| Basic data | |||
| Foundation : | 1834 | ||
| State : | United States | ||
| State : | Ohio | ||
| County : | Putnam County | ||
| Coordinates : | 41 ° 2 ′ N , 84 ° 5 ′ W | ||
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) | ||
| Residents : | 919 (status: 2000) | ||
| Population density : | 229.8 inhabitants per km 2 | ||
| Area : | 4.0 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) of which 4.0 km 2 (approx. 2 mi 2 ) is land |
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| Height : | 222 m | ||
| Postal code : | 45848 | ||
| Area code : | +1 419 | ||
| FIPS : | 39-30282 | ||
| GNIS ID : | 1064725 | ||
Glandorf is a town ( Village ) in Putnam County , Ohio , United States . At the 2000 census, the place had 919 inhabitants.
geography
Glandorf is about 2.5 miles (4 km) west of County Seat Ottawa, Ohio , which is quite central in Putnam County, about 97 miles (156 km) north of Dayton and about 69 miles (111 km) southwest of Toledo and Lake Erie away.
Glandorf's neighbors are Ottawa , Kalida , Kieferville , Miller City and Leipsic .
history
The Osnabrück clergyman and grammar school teacher at the Carolinum , Johann Wilhelm Horstmann, who came from Glandorf in Lower Saxony , embarked on September 7, 1833 with six other Glandorf men on the Columbus passenger ship in Amsterdam and arrived in New York on November 6, 1833. In December of that year he acquired land in Putnam County, Ohio, and established New Glandorf there. This group included Johann F. Kahle, Wilhelm Gülker, Christian Strope, F. Wischmann, Friedrich Bredeick as well as Mathias and Friedrich Bockrath. Kahle bought land near Greensburg, which is about five miles west of Glandorf on today's Road J, and named it Mariakamp. The land that Professor Horstmann acquired was called Glandorf. The wives and ten other families followed in 1834. In 1835, more families from Germany joined them. The wave of emigration did not end there; it lasted until the beginning of the 20th century. With his death on February 21, 1843 Horstmann bequeathed all of his land to the community.
St John's the Baptist Church was built under the direction of Pastor Dickmann and consecrated on December 15, 1878. For a short time there was also a monastery of the German Order of Sisters of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood , who cultivated the land that originally belonged to Professor Horstmann. The order gave up the monastery and has its main offices in Maria Stein (Ohio) and Dayton (Ohio) .
The neighboring town of Miller City owes its existence to a few families from Glandorf (Ohio) who settled there in 1882. The place was named after the settler Nikolaus Miller (Müller).
The Church of St. John the Baptist
The church of St. John the Baptist with a monument to Johann Wilhelm Horstmann
Monument to Johann Wilhelm Horstmann
Memorial for the 150th anniversary 1834-1984
traffic
Glandorf is located on State Route 694 which leads towards Ottawa, Ohio to US Route 224. The closest highways to the south are US Highway 30 and Interstate 75 . About six miles (9 km) east of Glandorf is Putnam County Airport.
Education and culture
State educational institutions in the neighboring town of Ottawa have two elementary schools, the Ottawa-Glandorf High School and the Putnam County District Library . Of the 51 churches in Putnam County, the Catholic Church of St John's the Baptist is located in Glandorf.
Partner communities
There is a partnership with Glandorf in Lower Saxony .
literature
- Anne Aengenvoort: Migration, settlement formation, acculturation: the emigration of Northwest Germans to Ohio 1830–1914 . Stuttgart 1999. ISBN 3-5150-7423-6 . P. 118.
- Friedrich E. Hunsche : Glandorf in North America. From the history of the church and some of its daughter churches . Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung of April 11, 1968. p. 16
Individual evidence
- ^ Lisa M. Schulte: Professor Horstmann founded Glandorf in Ohio. In: noz.de. May 15, 2014, accessed January 14, 2019 .
- ^ Nancy Kline: Celebrating 175 years in Glandorf . In: PutnamVoice.com . March 9, 2009. Archived from the original on February 19, 2011. Retrieved on August 11, 2009.
- ↑ Entry about the local history on the homepage of the municipality of Glandorf . Accessed on May 2, 2019, 3:59 pm