Sespenroth

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Sespenroth desert

Sespenroth is a desert south-east of today's Montabaur district of Reckenthal . The community of Sespenroth existed until 1853 and was last part of the Wallmerod office in the Duchy of Nassau . Sespenroth was in the west of today's Heilberscheid district . Today only a plaque remembers the former village on the desert.

Geographical location

Sign board

Sespenroth was in a left side valley of the Gelbach at an altitude of about 200  m above sea level. NN . Heilberscheid is about 1.6 kilometers away, Reckenthal only about 500 meters.

history

Wayside cross

A wave of emigration from the former Duchy of Nassau dealt in particular with the years 1817 to 1854. After 1842 the castle Wiesbaden-Biebrich the Texas club was founded, with its many Westerwald decided to colonization of Texas and were on the grounds of Fredericksburg (Texas) in Participated in 1846. All over the country, all over Europe, there was a spirit of optimism to come to prosperity and freedom in the "land of a thousand opportunities". Almost all of the residents of Sespenroth decided to move to America in 1852 and sold or pledged their belongings. At the time, 76 people in 19 families lived in Sespenroth, the village had eleven houses, a chapel and a bakery .

On Easter Tuesday, March 29, 1853, 13 families with 48 people left for Bremen via Koblenz and Cologne. The emigrants traveled from Bremen on April 11, 1853 with the brig Leander to New York , where they arrived on May 30, 1853. In June 1853 they reached their new home in Milwaukee in the American state of Wisconsin .

Four families who did not emigrate were resettled in surrounding villages. The village buildings were torn down.

Web links

Commons : Sespenroth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernd Brunner : To America: the history of German emigration , CH Beck, 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-59184-6
  2. ↑ Circular No. 14 of the US Consulate ( Memento of May 27, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Summer / Fall 2008, page 6 (PDF)

Coordinates: 50 ° 24 ′ 43 ″  N , 7 ° 52 ′ 20 ″  E