Name/Location

  • Familysearch.org: Arnstein, Main-Spessart, Bavaria, Germany
  • Modern geographical reference: Arnstein, Main-Spessart, Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) Bavaria, Germany
  • Approximate GPS Coordinates: 49.9964432999874, 9.963604346075591
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Significance to my family

This was home to George Karl Zang & Rosina Schmitt, my great-great grandparents.

  • Me -> Anna Lorraine Amborn (1923 – 2019) -> Anna Marie Schultz (1884 – 1923) -> Margaret Juliana Zang (1858 – 1930) -> George Karl Zang (1824 – 1871) & Rosina Schmitt (1825 – 1903)
  • Rosina Schmitt married George Karl Zang there in 1852. After his death in 1871 Rosina and daughters Margaret Zang and Rosini Josephi Zang emigrated to Walworth County, Wisconin in the United States.
  • They had 14 children, although only three survived: Margaret, Rosini and Phillip. As noted above, Margaret and Rosini emigrated to the United States. Phillipp Johann Zang (1854 – 1905) remained and married Anna Maria Hartmann (1866 – 1937) in Arnstein on 25 May 1896. They had one known child, Karl Josef Zang (b. 1898), and both died in Arnstein.

This was also home to Johann Joseph Schultz & Anna Maria Metzger, my great-great grandparents.

Notable addresses in Arnstein:

B26a 41, 97450 Arnstein, Germany

40 – Home of Anton Metzger (my GGG Grandparents) and his wife Anna Maria when all of their children were born (1807 – 1822). Anna Maria Wilhelm may still have been living there at the time of her death in 1830.

Anton Mitzger/Anna Maria Wilhelm -> Anna Maria Metzger (Johann Joseph Schultz) -> Simon Schulz (Margaret Julia Zang) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson


Schulhof 6, 97450 Arnstein, Germany

52 – Johan Joseph Schulz & Family lived here when son Charles Carl (not a direct relative of mine was born in 1837

Anna Maria Metzger (Johann Joseph Schultz) -> Simon Schulz (Margaret Julia Zang) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson

Schweinfurter Str. 6

69 – Joseph Schulz and his wife Catharina Zinner were living here when Johann Joseph Schulz was born in 1810

Joseph Schulz/Catherina Zinner -> Johann Joseph Schultz (Anna Maria Metzger) -> Simon Schulz (Margaret Julia Zang) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson

Ölmühlweg 1 / St2294 11

86 – Johann Joseph Schulz & Family lived here when son Simon was born in 1835 (he died in 1841. “My” Simon was born in New York on 8 July 1850.

Anna Maria Metzger (Johann Joseph Schultz) -> Simon Schulz (Margaret Julia Zang) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson


Goldgasse 23

122 – Kaspar Schmitt was living there at the time of his marriage (1817). Kaspar Schmitt & Anna Maria Keller were living here at the time of the birth of Rosina (1825) and all of her siblings (1817 – 1830)

Kaspar Schmitt/Anna Maria Keller -> Rosina Schmitt (George Karl Zang) -> Margaret Juliana Zang (Simon Schulz) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson

Goldgasse 27

124 – George Karl Zang was living here when he was married Rosina Schmitt in 1852

Rosina Schmitt (George Karl Zang) -> Margaret Juliana Zang (Simon Schulz) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson

Here is an old picture postcard of the old house, marked with arrow. The picture hangs in the staircase in the house and grandma told me that was the old house. I must ask my aunt Maria (brother of my dad) times, when the current was built. [Thomas Hartmann]

Here is a current view that is currently owned by my aunt. However, she no longer lives in the house, but is in the retirement home, so the house is empty. [Thomas Hartmann]

 

Goldgasse 10

173 – Johan Joseph Schulz lived here when he was married in 1831; He was living there at the time his first two children (Anna and Frank) were born.

Anna Maria Metzger (Johann Joseph Schultz) -> Simon Schulz (Margaret Julia Zang) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson


Höflein 5-7

227 – George Karl Zang & Rosina Schmitt lived here at the time of all of their children were born (1853 – 1870). Karl George was living there when he died in 1871.

Rosina Schmitt (George Karl Zang) -> Margaret Juliana Zang (Simon Schulz) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson

By an amazing coincidence, Kathleen and I ate at the restaurant that stands at this location when we visited Arnstein in August, 2017. This is the Google Street view of the building:

And this is a photo I took during the meal… the GPS coordinates correspond precisely with this address. 

This is the entry from the diary I kept from that trip:

“We re-traced our way back into town and settled into a guest house that had been closed when we found it on Wednesday. Communicating was a bit of a challenge: the menu was in German, and the proprietor had limited English, but we managed. Kathleen got her hamburger fix, and I had the recommended dish that involved mushrooms. To my good fortune it also involved pork and was delicious. We even managed to park without getting a ticket.”

Karlstadter Str. 21

243 – Apollonia Schmitt, a wife of Jörg Schmitt, a saltpeter-maker died here on 21 September 1813

245 – Georg (Jörg) Schmitt died here on 25 March 1826

Georg (Jörg) Schmitt/ Apollonie Götz -> Kaspar Schmitt (Anna Maria Keller ) -> George Karl Zang (Rosina Schmitt) -> Margaret Juliana Zang (Simon Schulz) -> Anna Marie Schulz (George D. Amborn) -> Anna Lorraine Hanson -> Tony Hanson

Better Proof

Heugrumbach, Arnstein, Germany

Kaspar Keller (father of Anna Maria Keller) died here in 1797

Images from https://atlas.bayern.de