Schnellville
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 Schnellville |
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| Location in Indiana | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1865 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Indiana |
| County : | Dubois County |
| Coordinates : | 38 ° 20 ′ N , 86 ° 45 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
| Residents : | 170 (status: 2000) |
| Height : | 199 m |
| Area code : | +1 812 |
| FIPS : | 18-68256 |
| GNIS ID : | 0443084 |
Schnellville is an unincorporated community in Dubois County in the state of Indiana of the United States .
history
Schnellville was founded by Henry Schnell, who came from Germany. Schnell was born on October 22nd, 1821 in Giesel (today the district of Fulda ) as the son of the small farmer Heinrich Schnell and his wife Maria. At the age of 25, he emigrated to America in 1847, where he worked on a steamboat, building railways and expanding the Erie Canal . In 1851 he returned to Germany to take his family to America. In his hometown he learned that his wife and son had passed away in the meantime. He then returned to the United States and settled in Dubois County, where he bought 16 hectares of land. He sold it a few years later and moved to Louisville, Kentucky . Three years later he moved back to Dubois, bought a farm there and opened a shop . A year later that farm sold and bought another to go back to farming. He then bought a suitable piece of land on which Schnellville has existed since November 27, 1865. In 1876, Henry Schnell built a sawmill and a mill on another 150 hectares of farmland. He died on May 25, 1900 and was buried in the Schnellville cemetery.
In 1873 the residents requested by Schnellville the responsible bishop from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Indianapolis , as this in Dubois County teens firmte , approving its own parish. On November 10, 1873 permission was granted and the construction of a church 18 m long, 12 m wide and a ceiling height of 6 m began. The church, which cost $ 1,600 to build, was dedicated on November 1, 1874. On April 24, 1898, the church and all its documents were completely destroyed by fire. The priest at the time, Father John Schueth, visited all the families in the parish to get to know them and asked for donations for a new church. He received quick approval from the bishop. The members of the community built the new building themselves. After 25 months of construction, the new church was consecrated on October 24, 1926.
In 1903 a new school was built. The children were mainly taught by Benedictine women from Ferdinand Township .
literature
- George R. Wilson: History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910 , Windmill Publications, 1910
- Schnellville Centennial 1865-1965 , Holland, Indiana, Shamrock Printing, 1965
- Elizabeth A. Ginsberg: 150 years of Schnellville in Indiana / USA in: Beech leaves supplement of the Fuldaer Zeitung for Heimatfreunde 89th volume number 19, Tuesday, September 27, 2016 page 73/74.