Rottweil-Tuttlingen Genealogy

Last Updated: 28 October 2005

• Swiss Emigration to Tuttlingen. The migrants to Tuttlingen from Switzerland were studied by Herrmann Streng in the late 1970s; a PDF includes names of emigres and their places of origin. Merci, Guillaume Roelly, for bringing this to our attention.
• Emigration from Southwestern Germany
  While the English language section is not yet ready (promised for mid 2005), it's not too difficult to figure out how to use the German-language section. You can enter either a surname, or you can even enter a town name to find a list of all people who emigrated from a particular town (or at least those who registered to do so). Here are the steps:
1. Click on the German Flag to access the German-language section
2. Click on Suchen Sie Ihre Vorfahren (near top of page)
3. Click on Suchformular (about midway in the page)
4. On the search form, either enter a surname into the NAME field, or enter a city/town name into the ORT field.
5. There are a number of additional options you can try. Refer to your German-English dictionary or babelfish.altavista.com for translations of the other options.
6. Click on the Anfrage Senden button to commence the search.
If you see "Es wurden keine passenden Auswandererdaten gefunden" that means the search engine didn't find any matches.
• Familienanzeigen (obits, births, marriages). German language.

• ShtetlSeeker has various pluses over conventional online maps. It allows the entry of a central location (Villingen-Schwenningen = 48º04' 08º27' ) and all hits will be from that location. It also will give a list of all the villages from a specified point, so you can recognize the nearby villages (or find where your missing village records are located). It then goes to a MapQuest map where you can zoom down to the street level in many villages. It has many of the archaic village names in its database. [Source: Fred H. Held]
• For the Würtemberg villages you can use the Village register of the former kingdom of Württemberg.
• Historical Map of Baden
• Historical Map of Württemberg

• [From Fred H. Held:] In the old Duchy/Kingdom of Würtemberg there were 4 Kreises - one in each corner. Our SW corner area would be in Schwartzwaldkreis (Black Forest Kreis). In later years they disbanded the kreises and setup Oberamts (OA~=upper offices) with a town designated as an administration office ("county seat"). Tuttlingen and Rottweil are two of these OAs. There are others in this region, such as Spaichingen. Apparently the Grand Duchy of Baden had something similar, because this area is part of Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis (Black Forest & (I believe) Plains or Rolling Hills Kreis). Baden now has Amts (A.~=office) having a similar meaning as OAs in Würtemberg. The "county seats" in our area of concern, include Donaueschingen and Villingen.
• [From Rose Schiller:] It is almost impossible to tell the administrative structures in Germany. Historically, there was too much change until about 1984. Interesting for research in the R-T area are the administrative units, called "Kreis", comparable to a county. Our area consists of three counties (Kreise): Rottweil (county seat is the city of Rottweil (abbr. RW)); Tuttlingen (county seat is the city of Tuttlingen (abbr. TUT)); Villingen-Schwenningen (also alled "Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis", county seat is Villingen-Schwenningen (abbr. VS)); I think that those three counties were part of the former "Schwarzwaldkreis" with seat in Reutlingen. That was after all the different little territories became part of Wuerttemberg (after 1806). Then the "Oberamt" was similar to a "Kreis", but there were more before than nowadays. Some details:
  • In the Rottweil area, there existed also an Oberamt Oberndorf and Sulz, which later become part of Rottweil.
  • The Oberamt Spaichingen later became part of Tuttlingen.
  • The Oberamt Wolfach belonged to Baden;
  • The city of Tennenbronn belonged to it but now belongs to Rottweil;
  • Parts of Oberamt Triberg came to VS or RW (Schiltach und Schenkenzell).
  There were more counties in the 1960/70ies than there are now. I.e. there was a county of Donaueschingen, parts of it now belong to VS or alos to Kreis Breisgau/Hochscharzwald (I am not sure). There was a county of Horb, parts of it came to RW, others maybe to Freudenstadt.
• Location / Political alignment Question (understanding amts, oberamts, kreis, etc.) [Source: DJ Weber]

Carla Heller is one of the administrators of the Baden-Wurttemberg mailing list. She regularly posts great advice. I've browsed the B-W archives and selected a few (?!) that I think are particularly useful to the Rottweil-Tuttlingen group. If others have favorites, please send me a link and I'll post it.

• Help for Pinpointing Ancestral Localities
• What's the Difference? "Emigration," "Immigration," & "Migration"
• Emigration: With and Without Permission
• German Family Research: Correspondence or Microfilms?
• Letters (& Advice) for German Genealogy Correspondence
• Helpful Online Links for German Name Research
• Help for Researching Latin-Language Records

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• Bumiller, Casimir (ed): Deisslingen: altes Dorf am jungen Neckar. 2002 Gemeinde Deisslingen
• Hengstler, Gerlinde: Deisslingen und Lauffen durch Zeiten und Jahreszeiten. 1987 Gemeinde Deisslingen
• Schaefer, Krotz, Ohnmacht, Bucher, Thomsen: Lauffen - meine Heimat. 1998 Ortschaftsverwaltung Lauffen
• Butscher: Die Pfarrgemeinde Lauffen. Festschrift zum 100jaehrigen Bestehen unserer St. Georgs Pfarrei. 1953
• Dr. Fiedler, Dr. Hecht, Dr. Schuster: Frittlingen 1797 - 1997. Geschichte und Gegenwart. Gemeinde Frittlingen; Geiger Verlag Horb am Neckar, ISBN 3-89570-218-8
• Dr. Karl Ulmschneider: Spaziergaenge durch das alte Neufra. Dokumentation der alten Haeuser und ihrer Bewohner. 2003 Ortschaftsverwaltung Neufra
• Weber, Edwin Ernst: Die Reichsstadt Rottweil und ihre Landschaft vom 30jährigen Krieg bis zur Mediatisierung. 1992 Veroeffentlichungen des Stadtarchivs Rottweil, Band 14; ISBN 3-928873-00-8

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