Birke

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Created on Friday, 11 January 2013 17:20

Written by Ursula Holz

translated by Ingrid Seliger, January 2014

You can proove the existence of the Birke (Bürke) family in Rudelsdorf/Tuntschendorf in the years about 1780 to 1930.

Tuntschendorf is situated in the North East of Wünschelburg and on the border in the direction to the Bohemian town of Braunau. My eldest ancestor is Anton Bürke, farmer and cantor of the church in Tuntschendorf.

By chance I got a family tree which was compiled by Paul Schubert and mainly registers the descendents of Anton Birke (born december, 13^th, 1858).

It would be nice to come in contact to the descendents of the different branches of the family.

My researches up to now can be selected in the data base.

If there are questions about the family Maria Birke and Josep Neumann I refer to the page

 www.wohlau-steinau.de

Basler

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Created on Friday, 11 January 2013 17:04

Written by Ursula Holz

Basler

My great-grandfather Ernst Basler and his ancestors were at home in Seifersdorf. The place is in the district of Wünschelburg in the area of Glatz and belongs to the parish of Niedersteine.

On november, 19^th, 1882 he married Anna Richter from Schönau (area of Braunau, Bohemia) in Königswalde and lived with his family (8 children) on the Spitzberg in Königswalde.

The surname Basler obviously stands for the place of origin which points to the town of Basel in Switzerland. There you find many people of this surname in the canton of Aargau, which is neighbouring the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Also in the county of Ortenau (Germany, Baden) the name is common.

The name Basler is not mentioned in the “Glatzer Steuer-Rolle” (tax register of Glatz) of 1653. It is unknown whether the family came to the County of Glatz by the German East colonisation or later. I would be glad to come in exchange with other researchers of the name Basler.

My ancestors can be selected in the data base of surnames.

Löffler

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Created on Wednesday, 09 January 2013 14:48

Written by Ursula Holz

translated by Ingrid Seliger, January 2014 

Löffler

The eldest ancestor, I could find out, was George Lefler who died in 1721. In the church records of Königswalde he is recorded as “gardener and former steward in Königswaldt”, aged 65. The name Löffler, Loeffler, Leffler, Lefler was very common in the former county of Neurode in the places Königswalde, Ludwigsdorf, Eule, Krainsdorf, Neurode. In the “Silesian Name Book” of Hans Bahlow, you find the meaning of the name (“Löffel = spoon, transl.): “The spoonmaker was a (wood)turner, because in the middle ages the spoons were made of wood.”

In the “Glatzer Steuerrolle von 1653 für den Kreis Wünschelburg“ (taxe register of the county of Wünschelburg) Mertin Leffler and Jacob Leffler are registered for the „Dorff Losdorf“ (village of Losdorf), Ludwigsdorf. The “Chronik der Stadt Neurode” (chronicle of the town of Neurode) of Dr. Joseph Wittig (Professor of the Breslau University) mentioned a Jakob Löffler from Hausdorf for the time of 1434 – 1440.

Following a summary of this chronicle:

My Loeffler researches up to now can be selected in the data base.