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Hesse or Hessia is both a cultural region of Germany and the name
of an individual German state.
The cultural
region of Hesse
includes both the State of Hesse and the area known
as Rheinisch
Hessen in the neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate state. The oldest and
second largest Hessian city, Mainz, is in Rheinisch Hessen. The State of Hesse (German:
Land
Hessen, literally "Country of Hesse") is part of the larger cultural region. It
has an area of 21,110 km2 (8,150 sq mi) and just over six million
inhabitants. The state capital is Wiesbaden. Hesse's largest city is Frankfurt am Main. The English name "Hesse" comes from the Hessian
dialect. The variant "Hessia" comes
from the medieval latin Hassia. The term "Hesse"
ultimately derives from a Germanic tribe called the Chatti,
who settled in the region in the first century B.C. An inhabitant of Hesse
is called a Hessian (German: Hesse
(masculine) or Hessin (feminine). Hesse-Kassel was elevated to the rank of an Electorate
in 1803, but this remained without effect as the Holy Roman Empire was disbanded in 1806. The
territory was annexed by the Kingdom of Westphalia
in 1806, but restored to the Elector in 1813. While other Electors had gained
other titles, becoming either Kings or Grand-dukes, the Elector of Hesse-Kassel alone retained the anachronistic dignity.
The name survived in the term Kurhessen,
denoting the region around Kassel. In 1866 it was annexed by Prussia,
together with the Free City of Frankfurt, Hesse-Homburg and the duchy of Nassau,
which established the province of Hesse-Nassau. Hesse-Darmstadt
was elevated to the rank of a Grand Duchy in 1806. In the War of
1866, it fought on the side of Austria against
Prussia, but
retained its autonomy in defeat, because a greater part of the country was
situated south of the Main river and Prussia did not dare to expand beyond
the Main line as this might have provoked France. But the parts of Hesse-Darmstadt north of the Main river (the region
around the town of Gießen, commonly called Oberhessen) were incorporated in the Norddeutscher Bund,
a tight federation of German states, established by Prussia in 1867. In 1871
the rest of the Grand Duchy joined the German
Empire. Around the turn of the century, Darmstadt was one of the centres of the Jugendstil. Situated in west-central Germany, Hesse state borders the German states of (starting in the north and proceeding clockwise) Lower Saxony, Thuringia, Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia. The principal cities of Hesse include Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Offenbach, Hanau, Gießen, Wetzlar, and Limburg in the greater Rhine Main Area, Fulda in the east, and Kassel and Marburg an der Lahn in the north. The most important rivers in Hesse are the Fulda and Eder rivers in the north, the Lahn in the central part of Hesse, and the Main and Rhine in the south. The countryside is hilly and there are numerous mountain ranges, including the Rhön, the Westerwald, the Taunus, the Vogelsberg, the Knüll and the Spessart. |
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The following are
surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having
been either born, married or
died in this ancestral location. Names in dark red
denote direct ancestral lines. |
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Attigh; Beyssel/Beissel; Mildenberg; Pfeffer; Reinhard; Steinmetz; Wambold; Zimmerman |
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Click on this link to find out more about each surname listed
above as well as other surnames found within our three family databases. |
This link will also lead you to surname resources at Rootsweb, and information about
the world-wide distribution of a surname. |
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The different searches will give you many different ways of using Google and
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Click
on the LINK to the right to see more
information about the World distribution of any surname. You can get greater |
detail
for any of the maps by clicking on the area, i.e
state, county that you are interested in. |
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Use the “verwandt.de“ LINK to find specific information about the distribution of
over one million names in Germany. A color-coded map showing all of the
districts (kries) in Germany will |
display the absolute distribution of names in a county, as well as the relative distribution
of that name indicating how many persons there are in proportion to the
population of a county. |
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1 = Bergstraße; 2 = Darmstadt-Dieburg; Darmstadt See Below
For Complete Listing Of Numbered Districts. |
Our Ancestral Districts
The following named districts are associated
with the history of our DIRECT ancestors. To select a specific ancestral county, go
to our ANCESTRAL
LOCATIONS home page. Here you will
find additional links to our district pages where you can obtain information
about our family gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in
our database, who have lived in the selected district. To find out more about
each county listed here use the following LINK |
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County Research
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Wikipedia is a multilingual, Web-based, free-content encyclopedia project
based mostly on anonymous contributions. Clicking on a Link
(below) will take you to the Wikipedia article about the county. Here you will find additional links to
guide the user to related pages with additional information. |
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Hesse is divided into 21 districts and 5
independent cities: |
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Gazetteer of Places
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· Cities and Communes in Hesse ·
Hesse Maps, Atlases & Gazetteers ·
Localities and Parishes of Hessen-Darmstadt |
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Where in the World are My
Ancestors?
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Internet resources
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The Google search
engine button and following web sites may
provide you with |
additional information to assist with your research about this Ancestral
Location. |
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·
Germany Research – Genealogy.net ·
German
Genealogy Resources – Genealoger ·
German Genealogy & Family History Resources ·
Online German Genealogy
Records & Databases ·
German Genealogy Resources
on the Internet ·
Basic Research Outline for
German Genealogy ·
Historical Record Search:
Germany ·
German Genealogy Info.
& Resources |
· SGGEE -German genealogy in eastern Europe ·
Ancestry.com Germany Data Base Collections($) ·
World Archives Project: Deutsche Artikel |
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Locality
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Hesse Genealogy – Looking for Kin ·
German Genealogy Hesse - Genealoger |
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