Category Archives: Germany

Charlemagne’s Chapel

Posted on May 26, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

Charlemagne was tired. Tired from the Saxon wars that went off and on for 30 years. Tired of the ventures in southern France and northern Spain and his battles there with Basques, Saracens and Visigoths. Tired of crossing the Alps … Continue reading →

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St Peter’s Cathedral in Osnabrück

Posted on May 22, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

St Marienkirche has perfectly symmetrical north and south sides (four gables and four high Gothic windows on each side).  It took us three minutes to walk from the church’s south side on Mrktplatz to Domplatz to visit the Dom or … Continue reading →

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St Mary’s Church in Osnabrück

Posted on May 15, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

We agreed to meet up with Carol Saint-Clair again on Friday afternoon in order to conclude our tour of historic Osnabrück by visiting two of the city’s great churches: the Lutheran St Mary’s Church (St Marienkirche) on Mrktplatz and the … Continue reading →

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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Hunteburg

Posted on May 13, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

After visiting Dielingen on our Friday morning (May 25, 2012) tour through Theler land  we said goodbye to Westphalia and crossed the border to  Lower Saxony. We drove through the farm community of Meyerhofen and soon arrived in Hunteburg to … Continue reading →

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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Dielingen

Posted on April 25, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

Our third stop on our Friday morning tour (May 25, 2012) was to the village of Dielingen which sits on North Rhine-Westphalia’s border with Lower Saxony about 12.5 miles northwest of Hedem. In the 1970s Dielingen joined twelve other villages … Continue reading →

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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: German Genealogy, with a Twist

Posted on April 21, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

The twist has to do with inheritance. Our Thelers did not own their land. But they had a right to rent their land and then hand down that right to the youngest son. But what happens when you have just … Continue reading →

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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Hedem and Hedemer Buchholz

Posted on April 16, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

Hedem is a sleepy village of about 500 people on the south side of the Mittellandkanal immediately to the west of Alswede. Hedemer Buchholtz is an even smaller farming  community on the north side of the canal and is usually … Continue reading →

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Searching for my Theler Ancestors: Alswede

Posted on April 13, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

Our tour guide Carol Saint-Clair met us at the Remarque Hotel in Osnabrück at 9 am on Friday, May 25, 2012 and drove us north and east to Theler territory — several hamlets straddling the borders of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsesn) … Continue reading →

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Historic Osnabrück and the Thirty Years War

Posted on April 8, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

The most important event in the history of Osnabrück occurred on October 24, 1648 with the proclamation on the steps of the Osnabrück City Hall (Rathaus) that the Thirty Years War was over. Our tour of Historic Osnabrück on Thursday … Continue reading →

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Walking around Osnabrück’s Innenstadt

Posted on April 4, 2013 by crowcanyonjournal

Here are some photos I took on our walks around Osnabrück’s city center (Innenstadt) on Thursday, March 24, 2012: In my next posting I will write about the tour we took on Thursday afternoon with our guide Carol Saint-Clair of … Continue reading →

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