{"id":1104,"date":"2018-04-01T15:11:26","date_gmt":"2018-04-01T20:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/?page_id=1104"},"modified":"2026-04-23T07:28:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T12:28:46","slug":"niederschmalkalden-sachsen-meiningen-germany","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/genealogy\/geography\/niederschmalkalden-sachsen-meiningen-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Niederschmalkalden, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:35% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/njHtYMsgkgkiQu36A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"978\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-055925.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5032 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-055925.png 978w, https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-055925-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-23-055925-768x513.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 978px) 100vw, 978px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Name\/Location<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Familysearch.org References<\/strong>:\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Niederschmalkalden, Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany<\/strong><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Niederschmalkalden, Sachsen-Meiningen, Germany<\/strong> (historical duchy \u2014 very important for older records) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Niederschmalkalden, Schmalkalden, Germany<\/strong> (simplified district search) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Schmalkalden, Thuringia, Germany<\/strong> (broader search if the village isn\u2019t indexed)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern geographical reference:\u00a0<strong>Niederschmalkalden, Wernshausen , Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">GPS Coordinates:\u00a0<strong>50.71816844884897, 10.364143519206607<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Significance to my family<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Home to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/genealogy\/maternal\/amborn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amborn <\/a>branch of my family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Me -> Anna Lorraine Amborn (1923 &#8211; 2019) -> George D. Amborn (1872 &#8211; 1933) -> Antone Henry Amborn (1840 &#8211; 1932) -> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/genealogy\/maternal\/amborn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Caspar Friedrich Amborn (1816 &#8211; 1875)\/Louise Theadore Hornung (1816 &#8211; 1899)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 &#8211; 18 families who left the region together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is located about a mile East of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/genealogy\/geography\/wernshausen-meiningen-sachsen-meiningen-germany\/\">Wernshausen\u00a0<\/a>where the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/genealogy\/maternal\/kumpel-kimbal\/\">K\u00fcmpel (Kimball)<\/a>\u00a0family (who were part of the 1847 group) lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Resources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Niederschmalkalden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wikipedia page<\/a> for Niederschmalkalden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/gov.genealogy.net\/item\/show\/NIEDEN_O6081\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gov.genealogy.net page<\/a> for Niederschmalkalden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meyersgaz.org\/place\/20325042\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Meyers Gazetter Entry<\/a> for Niederschmalkalden.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Church records for Niederschmalkalden are archived at the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.landeskirchenarchiv-eisenach.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">State Church Archives of the Evangelical Church of Central Germany\/Eisenach<\/a><\/strong> and are available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.archion.de\/de\/\">archion.de<\/a>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archion.de\/de\/alle-archive\/thueringen\/landeskirchenarchiv-der-evangelischen-kirche-mitteldeutschland\/eisenach\/kirchenkreis-bad-salzungen-dermbach\/niederschmalkalden\/292564\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baptisms, burials 1793-1878<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archion.de\/de\/alle-archive\/thueringen\/landeskirchenarchiv-der-evangelischen-kirche-mitteldeutschland\/eisenach\/kirchenkreis-bad-salzungen-dermbach\/schwallungen\/292562\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronicle I 1843-1988<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archion.de\/de\/alle-archive\/thueringen\/landeskirchenarchiv-der-evangelischen-kirche-mitteldeutschland\/eisenach\/kirchenkreis-bad-salzungen-dermbach\/schwallungen\/292563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Chronicle II 1989-1996<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archion.de\/de\/alle-archive\/thueringen\/landeskirchenarchiv-der-evangelischen-kirche-mitteldeutschland\/eisenach\/kirchenkreis-bad-salzungen-dermbach\/schwallungen\/292553\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Church register 1688-1792<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It does\u00a0<strong>not\u00a0<\/strong>appear that an Ortsfamilienbuch (OFB\/Local Family Register) was created for Niederschmalkalden.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Church_Cemetery.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Church_Cemetery.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5047\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Church_Cemetery.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Church_Cemetery-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Church_Cemetery-768x330.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is the Protestant church and cemetery in\u00a0Niederschmalkalden as they appeared when I photographed in them in August, 2017. The cemetery had many Amborn, K\u00fcmpel and Storandt graves from the 1900\u2019s to the present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Significance to my family Home to the Amborn branch of my family. Me -> Anna Lorraine Amborn (1923 &#8211; 2019) -> George D. Amborn (1872 &#8211; 1933) -> Antone Henry Amborn (1840 &#8211; 1932) -> Caspar Friedrich Amborn (1816 &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":986,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1104","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5058,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1104\/revisions\/5058"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rayson.us\/aehanson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}