Brandenburg Emigration and Immigration: Difference between revisions

<br>'''Swiss colonists in Mark Brandenburg''' <br>A treatise of Swiss colonists in Mark Brandenburg was also rendered by Erich Wentscher in ''Archiv für Sippenforschung'' (7. Jahrgang, Heft 7, Juli 1930). The newcomers were very welcomed craftsmen who were given citizenship, land and tax breaks to settle in. Their names, family connections and whereabouts were very well documented. The author starts with 14 families departing from Basel in 1685, arriving in Golm where 4 families settled. Further 4 families settle in Nattwerder and the remaining 6 in Neu-Töplitz. Later settlements were in Ruppin and Lindow. Swiss immigrants are also found in Eberswalde. Over the decades and centuries the Swiss infiltrated other settlements, formerly Dutch, such as Neu-Holland. Swiss citizens are also found in&nbsp;Hohenbruch and Oranienburg.  

 

'''Emigration from Bern in 1691'''<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; It is a known fact that the ruler of Brandenburg invited many other nationalities to settle in Brandenburg after the Thirty Years War to repopulate certain areas and to boost the local economy. Such invitations were also followed by Swiss migrants from Bern in 1691. <br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The author Franz Moser identified those immigrants who actually settled in Brandenburg after leaving Switzerland and published his findings in Archiv für Sippenforschung 14. Jahrgang, Heft 2 (1937), starting with page 143. The lists of emigrants can give the researcher details about family situations and often their places of origin.<br>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The above mentioned periodical is available at the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, call number 943 B2as on the International Floor.<br>