1. JOHANNES GEORG1 ACKERMANN1 was born Abt. 1670 in Kirchhausen, Wuertemberg, Germany1. He married MARIA EFFRA ROSINA1.
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[Paul Ackerman.FTW]
We can trace our family roots in Germany back eight generations and over three hundred years to the mid-17th century in the persons of Johannes Georg and Maria Effra Ackermann (our great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents), who were first Ackermanns listed in the church records of Kirchhausen, It was their great-great-great-grandson, Franz Alois Ackermann, who emigrated to America in 1853 with his younger brother, Johannes Augustus, and became the founder of our Ackerman branch of the family in America.
Kirchhausen is a small town of 3,500 people located near the confluence of the Neckar and the Rhine Rivers just north of the Black Forest in the state of Wuertemberg, which was once part of the Swabian region. The town itself can trace its history back to the middle ages. In the mid-1800s it was a bastion of the Catholic Church administered by the Knights of the German Order, a military order dedicated to resisting the spread of Protestantism into the area. At that time, it was a town about a thousand people of whom over 98% were Catholic. Even today, it is overwhelmingly Catholic and the only Catholic town within twenty five miles.
72% of the voters voted against the Nazi party in the 1930 elections and most residents profess to have been anti-Nazi during the war. Kirchhausen was relatively undamaged during the war although nearby Heilbronn was totally destroyed in a RAF air raid on December 4, 1944, in which a distant cousin, Johann August Pfau was killed along with his wife and daughter. The US army crossed the Neckar river and occupied Kirchhausen in April 1945. Although they requisitioned a number of private homes to billet their troops, the occupation period was generally benevolent and without incident.
The Ackermanns of Kirchhausen are the descendants of long line of shoemakers, a craft that was handed down from father to son through the years. Those living there today are largely middle class . . . farmers and tradesmen ( ie shoemakers, barbers). All are Catholic. Although few are university graduates, a number of them have established their own businesses and done well. They are described as friendly and diplomatic and are active members of their church and proud of their achievements. There are over twenty Ackermann families listed in the current Kirchhausen-Heilbronn telephone book.
Child of JOHANNES ACKERMANN and MARIA ROSINA is:
