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The Hickengrund is made up of four villages [[Niederdresselndorf, Germany|Niederdresselndorf]], [[Oberdresselndorf, Germany|Oberdresselndorf]], Lützeln, and Holzhausen. Today these villages are in the municipality of [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Amt_Burbach Burbach] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegen-Wittgenstein Siegen-Wittgenstein] district, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia], [[Germany Genealogy|Germany]].  
The Hickengrund is made up of four villages [[Niederdresselndorf,_Germany|Niederdresselndorf]], [[Oberdresselndorf, Germany|Oberdresselndorf]], Lützeln, and Holzhausen.  Today these villages are in the municipality of [http://wiki-de.genealogy.net/Amt_Burbach Burbach] in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegen-Wittgenstein Siegen-Wittgenstein] district, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia], [[Germany|Germany]].  


Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website [http://www.hickengrund.de/ www.hickengrund.de] written in German about this area. His informative copyright website contains information on the history, genealogy and dialect of the area.<br>  
Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website [http://www.hickengrund.de/ www.hickengrund.de] written in German about this area.&nbsp; His informative copyright website contains information on the history, genealogy and dialect of the area.<br>  


The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area: [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickengrund Hickengrund].<br>
The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area:&nbsp; [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickengrund Hickengrund].<br>  
 
=== Church Records<br>  ===
 
The records in the FamilySearch Catalog are found under Germany, Preußen, Westfalen, Niederdresselndorf<br>
 
Under church records are found two listings:
 
{{FSC|299386|item|disp=Kirchenbuch, 1588-1919}}, and<br>
 
{{FSC|261543|item|disp=Kirchenbuchduplikat, 1826-1874}}<br>
 
The Niederdresselndorf church books were begun on 21 November 1587 by Pastor Jacob Juncker. At first he only recorded baptisms. Marriages were recorded beginning in1590, followed by communicants starting in 1598. The recording of deaths was not begun until 1658. In 1587 the parish of Niederdresselndorf included the Hickengrund villages of Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselndorf, and Lützeln. Holzhausen, the fourth Hickengrund village, was in the parish of Haiger until 1607.<ref>Lars Müller, Kirchenbücher als Spiegel der Geschichte.</ref>  


=== Emigration  ===
=== Emigration  ===
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This area provided immigrants to the British colonies in North America, some of whom are listed in the following books:<br>  
This area provided immigrants to the British colonies in North America, some of whom are listed in the following books:<br>  


Gerber, Adolf. ''The Emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the Eighteenth Century : The Conduct of the Governments Towards It and The Ensuing Fates Of The Emigrants''. Translated by Lissy L. Weirich. Privately published, 1984.  
Gerber, Adolf. ''The Emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the Eighteenth Century&nbsp;: The Conduct of the Governments Towards It and The Ensuing Fates Of The Emigrants''. Translated by Lissy L. Weirich. Privately published, 1984.  
 
<br>Goebel, Julius. [http://books.google.com/books/about/Briefe_deutscher_Auswanderer_aus_dem_Jah.html?id=Xv0qAAAAYAAJ ''Briefe Deutscher Auswanderer aus dem Jahre 1709'']. Illinois: Nachdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Deutsch-amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1912.<br>
 
=== Jurisdiction<br>  ===
 
{| width="391" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" border="0" align="center"
|-
| 1323-1606<br>
| Nassau-Dillenburg<br>
|-
| 1606-1620<br>
| Nassau-Beilstein<br>
|-
| 1620-1662<br>
| Nassau-Dillenburg<br>
|-
| 1662-1676<br>
| Nassau-Schaumburg<br>
|-
| 1676-1739<br>
| Nassau-Dillenburg<br>
|-
| 1739-1806<br>
| Orange-Nassau<br>
|-
| 1806<br>
| Grand Duchy of Berg<br>
|-
| 1813<br>
| Orange-Nassau<br>
|-
| 1816<br>
| Prussia<br>
|-
| 1816–1817<br>
| In 1816–1817, the two districts of Siegen and Wittgenstein were created as parts of the Prussian province of Westphalia. In 1974, the two districts were merged, and in 1984 named Siegen-Wittgenstein<br>
|-
| 1871<br>
| Germany<br>
|-
| 1946<br>
| The State of North Rhine-Westphalia (German: Nordrhein-Westfalen) was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia. <br>
|}


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<br>Goebel, Julius. [http://books.google.com/books/about/Briefe_deutscher_Auswanderer_aus_dem_Jah.html?id=Xv0qAAAAYAAJ ''Briefe Deutscher Auswanderer aus dem Jahre 1709'']. Illinois: Nachdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Deutsch-amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1912.<br>


=== Ortsfamilienbuch <br>  ===
=== Ortsfamilienbuch <br>  ===
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[http://www.online-ofb.de/hickengrund/?lang=de Ortsfamilienbuch Hickengrund] a very important resource, a "local family book" of the people with their vital statistics who have lived in the Hickengrund since the 16th century.<br><br>  
[http://www.online-ofb.de/hickengrund/?lang=de Ortsfamilienbuch Hickengrund] a very important resource, a "local family book" of the people with their vital statistics who have lived in the Hickengrund since the 16th century.<br><br>  


=== Bibliography<br>  ===
[[Category:NordRhein-Westfalen, Germany]]
 
Braun, Otto. ''Burbach in alten Bildern ( Burbach Gilsbach Holzhausen Lippe Lützeln Niederdresselndorf Oberdresselndorf Wahlbach Würgendorf)''. Neunkirchen: Druck und Verlag Otto Braun KG Neunkirchen, 1981.
 
Fromme, Fritz. ''Geschichte des Freien Grundes und des Hickengrundes''. Neunkirchen: Otto Braun, 1969.
 
[https://archive.org/details/diebauundkunstde00ludo_6 Ludorff, Albert, editor. ''Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler des Kreises Siegen''. Volume 12 of ''Die Bau- und Kunstdenkmäler von Westfalen''. Münster i. W.: Kommissions Verlag von Ferdinand Schöningh, 1903.]
 
[http://sammlungen.ulb.uni-muenster.de/hd/content/titleinfo/251813 Manger, Eduard. ''Der alte Hegeregrund und seine Bewohner, später Kirchspiel Dresselndorf, zuletzt der Hickengrund und die Hicken genannt''. Siegen: Druck von W. Vorländer, 1883.]<br>
 
Müller, Lars. “Kirchenbücher als Spiegel der Geschichte.” ''Evangelische Kirche Niederdresselndorf vor 250 Jahren neu aufgebaut: Festschrift zum Kirchenjubiläum vom 11. - 18. September 2005''. Niederdresselndorf: Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Niederdresselndorf, 2005.<br>
 
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[[Category:Westphalia,_Germany]]

Revision as of 19:05, 1 May 2014

The Hickengrund is made up of four villages Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselndorf, Lützeln, and Holzhausen.  Today these villages are in the municipality of Burbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website www.hickengrund.de written in German about this area.  His informative copyright website contains information on the history, genealogy and dialect of the area.

The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area:  Hickengrund.

Emigration[edit | edit source]

This area provided immigrants to the British colonies in North America, some of whom are listed in the following books:

Gerber, Adolf. The Emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the Eighteenth Century : The Conduct of the Governments Towards It and The Ensuing Fates Of The Emigrants. Translated by Lissy L. Weirich. Privately published, 1984.


Goebel, Julius. Briefe Deutscher Auswanderer aus dem Jahre 1709. Illinois: Nachdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Deutsch-amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1912.

Ortsfamilienbuch
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Ortsfamilienbuch Hickengrund a very important resource, a "local family book" of the people with their vital statistics who have lived in the Hickengrund since the 16th century.

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