Name/Location
Familysearch.org References:
- Niederschmalkalden, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
- Niederschmalkalden, Sachsen-Meiningen, Germany (historical duchy — very important for older records)
- Niederschmalkalden, Schmalkalden, Germany (simplified district search)
- Schmalkalden, Thuringia, Germany (broader search if the village isn’t indexed)
Modern geographical reference: Niederschmalkalden, Wernshausen , Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany
GPS Coordinates: 50.71816844884897, 10.364143519206607
Significance to my family
Home to the Amborn branch of my family.
Me -> Anna Lorraine Amborn (1923 – 2019) -> George D. Amborn (1872 – 1933) -> Antone Henry Amborn (1840 – 1932) -> Caspar Friedrich Amborn (1816 – 1875)/Louise Theadore Hornung (1816 – 1899)
Caspar, Louise and three children emigrated from Germany in May 1847 and settled in Hudson, Walworth, Wisconsin. They were reportedly part of a group of 16 – 18 families who left the region together.
It is located about a mile East of Wernshausen where the Kümpel (Kimball) family (who were part of the 1847 group) lived.
Resources
- Wikipedia page for Niederschmalkalden.
- gov.genealogy.net page for Niederschmalkalden.
- Meyers Gazetter Entry for Niederschmalkalden.
- Church records for Niederschmalkalden are archived at the State Church Archives of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany/Eisenach and are available on archion.de
- It does not appear that an Ortsfamilienbuch (OFB/Local Family Register) was created for Niederschmalkalden.
This is the Protestant church and cemetery in Niederschmalkalden as they appeared when I photographed in them in August, 2017. The cemetery had many Amborn, Kümpel and Storandt graves from the 1900’s to the present.