Churches of the Schochenmaiers (part I, Germany)

Today I'd like to start a post  about the churches wherein our ancestors possibly had gone. But let's do it in chronological way. It will be consisting of three parts: churches of the Schochenmaiers in Germany, Russia and North America.

Let's start with Germany. As I know in what church books the earliest Schochenmaiers are to be found I may admit they had been members of those churches.

First, we visit the city of Ludwigsburg where we can track our ancestors (4 generations!!!) back from 1710s to 1820s.

The city church in Ludwigsburg was built in the Baroque style in the years 1718-1726. This makes it the oldest church in the heart of the city of Ludwigsburg, which itself arose only after the construction of the Royal Palace. So the year 1704 is considered the founding year of the city.

Then we should visit the Evangelical church of Kornwestheim (Martinskirche):

Let's move to Stuttgart. You should visit the Protestant Old Church in Heumaden (a locality of Stuttgart), Baden-Württemberg. Built in 1499, it is one of the most important attractions of Heumaden. More than a tourist spot, the church serves as the local parish and is often visited by the residents of the district. We can stumble upon the Johann Christian Schochenmaier here in the 1720s. 

Now let's fly to the West near France where you can find the family of Martin and Barbara Schochenmaier in the 1730s:

Church of Wittendorf:

Church of Kork (Kehl):

Church of Linx:

Church of Rheinbischofsheim:

And the last sights seeing for today will be Heilbronn where a big family of Carl August Schochenmaier had lived in the beginning of the 19th century. Here we go to the Nikolai Church:

 Next time we will visit the churches of the 19th century in the South Russia, Black Sea Germans (today's Ukraine).

Lifestyle in the Southern Germany where the Schochenmaiers had lived before Russia

In order to find out how our ancestors had lived in the Southern Germany (Baden, Württemberg or maybe Palatinate) I've visited an open-air Museum. It's about typical Lifestyle around there. Please enjoy my Pictures:

And now....! As you remember, if it is true that two different families (very possibly the Schochs and the Maiers), according to Jacob Schochenmaier, founded their joint wagon and buggy company in Germany, then it might look like follows:

My great great grandfather detected in a picture

Last week, I've had a great meeting with my relatives who are descendants from Jacob Schochenmeier (1896-1937). That Jacob, who had been shot to death in the time of Stalin's repressions for being Baptist and German at once, is son of Gottlieb Schochenmaier (1862-????), so to say a partriarch of Russian Schochenmeiers.  Gottlieb had had 5 sons:

1. Gottlieb (1883 or 1886, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia -1969, Karaganda, Kazakhstan);

2. Michael (1891, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1942, Neu-Rohrbach, Ukraine);

3. Jacob (1896, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1937, Caucasus, Republic of Georgia);

4. Wilhelm (1897, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - 1973, Radolfzell, Germany);

5. Adolf (1899, Neu-Rohrbach, South Russia - about 1918, Ukraine, killed by Bolsheviks).

All of them are on the same generations' level like the Michael's children (Friedrich (1888) and Jacob (1890)) or Jacob's children (Jacob (1887), Paul (1897), Samuel (1897), Emanuel (1898), David (1900)).

I am from the line of the 4th son Wilhelm. It was interesting to get to know that they called every ancestor of each line with "vetter" (it's like "father"). Wilhelm-vetter or Vetter Wilhelm has become later through cosy names Willy and Willysch as "Lysch-vetter" (should be spoken out as "lush-fetter").

But the most amazing fact was that I had found my Wilhem on the photo of my relatives. It was taken in Switzerland in the 50s or 60s.

Wilhelm is standing behind the Family of the Krafts. It seems to be that the man in the center is Mr. Kraft and his wife is to be related to Schochenmaiers, but the Problem is that nobody knows in what way))) Two women standing in the foreground to the right do look like the Schochenmaier ones, at least their faces.

I hope I will find out who they were.

Thank you for your attention.

Tails of memories by Elaine Schochenmaier

Below I'd like to repost what Elaine Robin (née Schochenmaier) commented on Ancestry and Facebook about one very interesting photo. It seems to be that Elaine is one of the oldest Schochenmaiers among the living ones. Her tails of memories are very precious for us.

Elaine Muriel Schochenmaier was born in 1945 from Paul Schochenmaier (1897-1973) and Esther Scott (1905-1977). Paul is the 9th child of Jacob Schochenmaier (1861-1923) and Barbara Martin (1860-1944), who had been born in the South Russia (today's Ukraine) and had immigrated to the New World in the 1880s.

Here is the picture:

                                 

Here is the list of those who are to be found on the picture:

Here is the text of Elaine with my notes and dates:

Hi, My name is Elaine Robin. I was Elaine Schochenmaier. My Uncle was Jacob Schochenmaier (1887-1975, husband of Margret Hochhalter) . My Dad was Paul Schochenmaier born in Nebraska in 1896. His parents(my Grandparents) were Jacob and Barbara Schochenmaier. They came to the Fleet area in the spring of 1907, traveling from Lacombe from the train, across the prairies until they came to the Homestead that Jacob had gotten the year before. I remember my Dad saying that they had five wagon loads of things, animals, machinery, and supplies, my Grandmother gave away a lot of things on the trail out as they kept running across some very hungry people who had settled the year before and had just ran out of food. I have lots of stories from my Dad and as I am one of the youngest of all of those cousins I probably know quite a lot. This all took place in Alberta. My Dad died 1973.

Now some words concerning the picture:

This is my Dad.. Paul (on the right, back row), mom Esther, holding Leonard (born in 1936) , in front...sister Clara (Clara May, 1931-????, wife of John Howden), brother Clarence (Clarence Roy, 1926-1998, husband of Dorene Hayden). This was taken with Grandma Schochenmaier with Uncle Sam (Samuel Schochenmaier, 1897-1966, married to Phyllis Jones) and Aunt Phyllis and their children (Joan Gray, Earl Thomas and Winnifred Barbara). This was just before they sold out and tried to go back to the US. They were not able to enter because of Grandma so both brothers ended up on Vancouver Is. Dad and Uncle Sam managed to get a job In a logging camp by Port Alberni for over the fall and winter, Mom and kids stayed in an auto court, as did Phyllis and kids. Think Clarence and the older kids went to some school there. In the spring Dad and Mom drove back to the old homestead as it wasn't sold. Mom said they had 29 cents in their pocket when they arrived home, they then had to start all over again,the other families here gave them livestock and it went from there. This was in 1936 and 1937. Clara went to look for her doll that she hide under the bed when she left as she couldn't take it with her, but....some bad neighbourhood hoodlums had raided the house and smashed the doll behind the house. The dirty 30's were cruel in many ways.

Plus two comments from Elaine Evans:

Evidently Sam's father came to B.C. in a horse pulled wagon. Don't remember what year, all he had to eat was flat bread. I was told his horse and wagon rolled into Princeton B.C. carrying him after he had passed away.

Was just trying to locate the school they all went to on Vancouver island which I have been to many times decades ago. It was on Westholme Road... Or very close. They lived on Westholme Road,
just outside Chemainus B.C. on the Island.
There is a Westholme School Society... now waiting for a reply on whether or not it is the school they went to or a new school in the neighbourhood.

All these memoirs can be confirmed by documents. For example, the arrival of Paul Schochenmaier to Idaho in 1936 (in two versions):

You can see that Paul was farmer, he was born in Nebraska and he was in the U.S.: from the birth to 1907 in Nebraska, then in Canada (Alberta), from 1922 to 1927 in Washington and finally from 1927 to 1936 in Canada again. He paid himself 700 dollars, arrived by auto and he had got brown hair and blue eyes.  And below you may find Paul's signature:

Life of F. W. Schochenmaier throughout archives

Those of you who got access to "my" our Family trees (on Ancestry or FamilySearch) have definitely noticed that our "very first" common ancestor Gottlieb Schochenmaier (about 1800) is brother of Friederike Wilhelmine Schochenmaier (1802). Their parents are Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier and Christina Schelling.

I would like to stress one more time that this kinship between Gottlieb and Friederike is presumble. We can't prove it on the base of documents! I suggested their connection because of names "Gottlieb" shared by "our" Schochenmaier and Imanuel. There had been an old tradition to inherit forenames and, besides that, no other Gottlieb had been found among Schochenmaiers by the end of the 18th century.

Searching for the Schochenmaiers in various archives I collected some documents on the above-mentioned Friederike Wilhelmine. I should we must take a closer look at her if we think that she is our remote in time relative.

Let's start with notice from the church book of 1802:

First column: date of birth - 11th September 1802 (year from the top) + date of baptism either 17th September or 14th, or even the same 11th September. I can't read clearly.

Second column: Name of the child Friderica Wilhelmina

Third column: Parents - Imanuel Gotlib Schochenmaier, his occupation Hutmacher (hatter!!!) and Christina geb. (nee) Schellingin.

Fourth column: "Patrini"- here I should explain this word. By that sponsors at baptism are meant. So called from the Medieval Latin term, which means those taking the place of parents. They undertake the office of spiritual patents toward those whom they bring to the baptismal font. It's difficult to recognize the names, but the first name is Heinrich Röler or Höler.

Did you find anything interesting? Firstly, there is no place Name. Secondly, yes! Immanuel Gottlieb's profession was Hutmacher, what means the Hatter!!! We have already met one before. Do you remember? Here is he: Schochenmaier the Hatter from Ludwigsburg. In that post we got to know a Schochenmaier the Hatter from a building application (1810), but he was without first name. I think we have found this missing name - Immanuel Gottlieb. It would be good to prove that he had lived in Ludwigsburg (area).

Please, admire the old town of Ludwigsburg:

Let's go on! In 1813, when Friederika Wilhelmina was about 11 years old, her sister died. She was 25 years 10 months and 1 day old. The information is from here:

Her Name had been Juliana Christiana Schochenmeier. Her father had been Gottlieb Immanuel Schochenmeier, HUTMACHER in Ludwigsburg! It's already impressive) And her mum had been Kristina geb. Schelling. That fits perfectly Friederika's parents. The order in personal names was not fixed: Gottlieb Immanuel or Immanuel Gottlieb, both were possible. If she died in 1813 and she was 25 years old, then she might be born in 1788.

Here is the whole record, but I can't decipher all of it:

 This church book is from Nagold. Maybe that's why it's noticed that her father was a hatter in Ludwigsburg (about 60 km between them). Read from Wiki:

Nagold is a town in southwestern Germany, bordering the Northern Black Forest. It is located in the Landkreis (district) of Calw (Germany/Baden-Württemberg). Nagold is known for its ruined castle, Hohennagold Castle, and for its road viaduct. It takes its name from the river Nagold, which flows through the town.
Nagold has a beautiful city centre where half-timbered houses and modern architecture meet each other. The following small villages belong to the district of Nagold: Emmingen, Gündringen, Hochdorf, Iselshausen, Mindersbach, Pfrondorf, Schietingen and Vollmaringen.

It looks like that:

The next step of every girl at that time was to get married. It was done in April 1826 when she had become wife of Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich (where Heinrich is last name!). He had been born in 1799.

Their children as follows:

Carl August (1826-1851)

Friederike Luise (1827-....)

Christiane Wilhelmine (1829-1830)

Pauline (1831-....)

Caroline Sophie (1833- ....) 

Johanne (1842-1842)

Here is their marriage record:

It's almost unredable but you may recongnize their names: Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich (last тame is underlined) + Friederika Wilhelmina Schochenmaier (last name is underlined). Then religion - for Friederika "evang" - it means "evangelical". Then parents: for Friederika - Immanuel Gottlieb Schochenmaier (underlined), Hutmacher, Lburg (for Ludwigsburg), Christina n. Schelling (underlined).

Name	Johann Friedrich Gottlieb Heinrich
Geburtsdatum	01 Apr 1799
Geburtsort	Oberalfelderbach
Name des Ehepartners	Friederike Wilhelmina Schoehenmaier
Geburtsdatum des Ehepartners	11 Sep 1802
Geburtsort des Ehepartners	Lburg.
Ereignisdatum	09 Apr 1826
Name des Vaters	Georg Friedrich Heinrich
Name der Mutter	Eva Barbara Burger
Name des Vaters des Ehepartners	Immanuel Gottlieb Schoehenmaier
Name der Mutter des Ehepartners	Christiana Schelling
Familienstand	Single
Familienstand des Ehepartners	Single

Every human life is to be ended by death. Our relative had died in 1834 at age of 32 only! Here is the document:

As usually you may read her Name of Friederika Wilhelmine Schochenmaier and the names of parents: Iman. Gottl. Schochenmaier (Hutmacher) and Christina geb. Schelling.

Hér husband died 3 years later in 1837:

In the last column you can read Friederika Wilhelmina, geb. Schochenmaier.

The whole life in records... It was a rare case when we can follow the most important miles of the life of one of the Schochenmaiers in the beginning of the 19th century. I hope she was happy during such a short life...

Madison Schochenmaier was crowned 2016-17 Carver County Dairy Princess

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Carver County’s 2016-17 dairy princesses

Posted on April 19, 2016 by Starrla Cray

         

CARVER COUNTY, MN – Five young women were crowned 2016-17 Carver County Dairy Princesses April 9. Pictured are Katelyn Hesse, Carley Buetow, Laura Grimm, Clare Stuewe, and Madison Schochenmaier.

Other awards included:

• Carver County Milk Pitcher 2016, Juliene Klaustermeier, Waconia
• Farm Bureau High Herd DHIA Award, Jopp’s Century Farm, New Germany
• Theresa Hoen Feist Memorial Scholarship winners, Carley Buetow, Cologne, and Madison Schochenmaier, Waconia.
• Senior Dairy Man 2016, Rodney Domjahn of Montrose
• Carver County Farm Family 2016, Paul and Sue Stuewe, Daniel, and Clare, plaque presented by Carver/Scott Extension agent, Abby Neu

Look for more photos from the banquet in the Monday, April 25 edition of the Herald Journal.

Carver County Dairy Princesses

Travis J. Schochenmaier named as a new Senior Cost Accountant by Blue Ox

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Blue Ox Names a new Senior Cost Accountant

  

March 15, 2016 by RVBusiness  Leave a Comment

Travis J. Schochenmaier

Travis J. Schochenmaier recently joined Automatic/Blue Ox as senior cost accountant and will be evaluating both the Blue Ox RV and truck accessories and Automatic Ag lines, according to a press release.

Blue Ox President and CEO Ellen Kietzmann noted, “I am very happy to announce that Travis has accepted the position of senior cost accountant for our company. We are always looking for ways to produce our products more efficiently without sacrificing our high standards of quality. Travis will be a key team member in helping achieve that goal.”

Prior to joining the Automatic/Blue Ox team, Schochenmaier worked as senior cost accountant for Sioux Steel Co. in Sioux Falls, S.D., and cost accountant for GNP Co. in Luverne, Minn.

While at Sioux Steel Schochenmaier was responsible for developing reports to begin monitoring labor and overhead variances, monthly review and summarization of labor, overhead, and material variances, created standard margin report by product line as well as a standard margin on open orders by product line report.

Schochenmaier said, “I’m really excited to be joining the Automatic/Blue Ox team. I am confident that I can make a significant contribution to the company and help them meet their goals.”
Schochenmaier earned his bachelor’s of business administration degree in accounting from Black Hills State University, Spearfish, S.D.

In Loving Memory of Douglas Gene Schochenmaier

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02/16/1953  -  04/05/2016

Life Legacy

Douglas Gene Schochenmaier was born on Feb 16th, 1953 at Gregory, South Dakota to Alvin and Lila (Stahlecker) Schochenmaier.

           He graduated from Naper High School in 1971.

Doug married Sandra Wiedrick on June 30, 1973 and they had three children Scott Schochenmaier, Shawn Schochenmaier and Jamie Stigge. They lived on a farm near Fairfax, SD.  Doug loved to be on the farm and do chores.

Doug and his family moved to Snyder, NE where he worked for Nebraska Irrigated Seeds (formally known as Fontanelle Seeds) for 16 years. He had formed many friendships over the years and made great memories with his co-workers. He would travel to North Bend and then to Fremont for work.

Doug passed away on April 5th, 2016 at the Good Samaritan Society in Atkinson, Nebraska.

Doug is survived by his children and grandchildren: his son, Scott (Kay Hackett) Schochenmaier and daughter Faith; his son, Shawn (Heather ) Schochenmaier and son Carter and soon to be twins; his daughter Jamie (Chris) Stigge and sons Collin and Ryder; his mother, Lila Schochenmaier; sister, Marlis (Eric) Nelson and sons Dr. Derek Nelson and Landon (Chrissy) Nelson; his sister Diane (Dewey) Peterson and children Desarae (Nathan) Schubauer and children, Alyssa, Mason and Dylan and Kristy (James) Smith and children Avery, Cayden, and Bryce, Cody Peterson and other close family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his father Alvin Schochenmaier, Grandparents Otto and Mary Stachlecker, and Fred and Kate Schochenmaier.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, April 8, 2016 at 10:30 AM at Clausen Funeral Home in Burke, SD.  Burial will be in the Knollcrest Cemetery, Naper, Nebraska.  Visitation will be one hour prior to the service at the funeral home. 

Alice G. Schochenmaier (January 3, 1928 - February 4, 2016)

http://www.chamberlainfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=3589906&fh_id=13349

Alice G. Schochenmaier

(January 3, 1928 - February 4, 2016)

                                                                         

Funeral services for Alice G. Schochenmaier, 88, of Chamberlain, SD will be 11:00 am Monday, February 8, 2016 at the United Church of Christ in Chamberlain with burial at a later date. Visitation will be Sunday from 2:00 to 4:00 pm with family present at the Hickey Funeral Chapel in Chamberlain.

Alice Gertrude Baumann was born January 3, 1928 to George and Opal (Emerick) Baumann at White River, SD. She attended school at White River. After high school, she attended Dakota Wesleyan College for two years and received her teaching certificate.
On June 12, 1949, Alice as united in marriage to Walter Schochenmaier and to this union 5 children were born Beth, Glen, Ricky, Richard, and Terry.

Alice worked as a teacher in the White River School District until Alice and Walt moved to Council Bluffs, IA. They later moved to Chamberlain where she raised her family until the children began school. She then worked as a teller at Tri-County Bank and Norwest Bank and later in the meat department at Jack & Jill's Grocery Store and Simon's Grocery Store.

Alice was a member of the United Church of Christ in Chamberlain; the Easter Star, Royal Neighbors, American Legion Auxiliary, and the Hospital Homes and Auxiliary. She enjoyed baking, canning, gardening, spending time with her grandchildren and especially playing cards with friends.

Alice passed away on February 4, 2016 at Regency Retirement Assisted Living in Chamberlain at the age of 88 years. Gratefully sharing her life are her children Beth Schochenmaier and Tom McCarthy of Chamberlain, Glen Schochenmaier and Margie of California, Dick Schochenmaier and Tami of Mitchell, and Terry Schochenmaier and Terri of Las Vegas, NV; a daughter-in-law Marie Schochenmaier of Oacoma; nine grandchildren; six great grandchildren; brother John Baumann and Kay of Custer; sister Ann Gricius of Alabama; and sister-in-law Alice Mae Jons and Melvern of Bonesteel.

Preceding her in death were her parents, her husband Walt, son Ricky, sisters Mary Baumann and Ruth Hollinger, and brother George Baumann.