{"id":89,"date":"2012-08-04T00:39:26","date_gmt":"2012-08-04T00:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsgenealogy.wordpress.com\/?page_id=89"},"modified":"2013-03-27T22:14:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T22:14:04","slug":"rodenhiser-kin-nections","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nsgenealogy.ca\/en\/rodenhiser-kin-nections\/","title":{"rendered":"Rodenhiser Kin-nections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodenhiser Kin-nections<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

HISTORICAL\u00a0\u00a0 BACKGROUND<\/p>\n

Contributor: Kenneth S. Paulsen<\/em><\/p>\n

The Rothenhauser family immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1751. The exact reasons that the family left Klein-Heubach may never be known.\u00a0 However, a combination of factors may have been considered when they decided\u00a0 to leave.\u00a0 It\u00a0 may\u00a0 have\u00a0 been a combination\u00a0 of\u00a0 economic, political\u00a0 and religious\u00a0 reasons that prompted the\u00a0 Johann Philipp Friedrich Rothenhauser family to leave the Main Valley.<\/p>\n

The town of\u00a0 Klein-Heubach\u00a0 sits on the south side of a bend in\u00a0 the River Main. Rising behind the town are the hills of the Odenwald. The agricultural\u00a0 potential of the town is limited by the narrowness\u00a0 of the valley.\u00a0 Across the river from Klein-Heubach is Gross-Heubach which\u00a0 historically\u00a0 lay in the\u00a0 territory of\u00a0 the\u00a0 Archbishopric of\u00a0 Mainz and which has also been associated with the Catholic branch of the house of Lowenstein-Wertheim.\u00a0 The location of the town with its limited\u00a0 agricultural land may have been contributing factors in the decision\u00a0 to\u00a0 leave.\u00a0 The\u00a0 Crown\u00a0 was\u00a0 offering potential immigrants\u00a0 grants of free land if they\u00a0 settled in Nova\u00a0 Scotia.\u00a0 German\u00a0 land-holding\u00a0 practices\u00a0 probably\u00a0 made the offer of free land in America\u00a0 seem very attractive.<\/p>\n

The Rothenhauser\u00a0 family\u00a0 left\u00a0 Klein-Heubach\u00a0 at the height of colonial-era\u00a0 German\u00a0 immigration to North America. They left during\u00a0 the period\u00a0 between the War of the\u00a0 Austrian Succession (1740–1748) and the Seven Years War (1756-1763).\u00a0 The Austrian War had an impact upon Germany as did most wars of the 17th\u00a0 and\u00a0 18th\u00a0 centuries. The Austrian War\u00a0 involved all the great\u00a0 powers of\u00a0 Western and Central Europe and the battles as usual were fought\u00a0 on German soil. The war itself probably had no direct\u00a0 impact on Klein-Heubach, but the town lay on an important trade and military route.<\/p>\n

The town of\u00a0 Klein-Heubach was a seat of the\u00a0 Princes of Lowen- stein-Wertheim.\u00a0 Klein-Heubach\u00a0 lay in the Protestant territories of the principality.\u00a0 The House of\u00a0 Lowenstein-Wertheim\u00a0 was split into Protestant\u00a0 (senior) and\u00a0 Catholic\u00a0 (junior) branches.\u00a0 The House of Lowenstein-Wertheim\u00a0 ruled\u00a0 Klein-Heubach for several centuries. The\u00a0 town was an enclave of the\u00a0 principality.\u00a0 It was\u00a0 surrounded by the Catholic Archbishopric of Mainz to the north,\u00a0 south and east and by the\u00a0 Protestant\u00a0 Grafschaft\u00a0 Erbach in the Odenwald to the west. The Principality maintained its autonomy until 1803 when it was absorbed into the Grand Duchy of Baden when\u00a0 Napoleon consolidated the German States and\u00a0 eliminated the Holy\u00a0 Roman\u00a0 Empire of the German Nation.\u00a0 The town of Klein-Heubach\u00a0 again changed hands in 1815 following the Treaty of Vienna when it was\u00a0 transferred to the jurisdiction of the greatly\u00a0 expanded\u00a0 Kingdom\u00a0 of Bavaria.\u00a0 Klein-Heubach\u00a0 has remained under the jurisdiction of Bavaria since that time.<\/p>\n

The town of\u00a0 Klein-Heubach had\u00a0 strong\u00a0 connections\u00a0 with\u00a0 the\u00a0 neighbouring Grafschaft Erbach.\u00a0 There was considerable interaction between the earldom and the town.\u00a0 Many\u00a0 people\u00a0 from Klein-Heubach had family\u00a0 connections\u00a0 with the\u00a0 earldom as seen in the following genealogy of the Rothenhauser and Zink families.<\/p>\n

The Rothenhauser\u00a0 (and\u00a0 Zink)\u00a0 family\u00a0 were\u00a0 part\u00a0 of\u00a0 a great movement of German Protestants to colonial America in the middle of the eighteenth\u00a0 century.\u00a0 There was a flood of German immigrants to Pennsylvania,\u00a0 New\u00a0 York\u00a0 and neighbouring Mid-Atlantic colonies at\u00a0 this time.\u00a0 The\u00a0 British\u00a0 government\u00a0 saw this as an opportunity to recruit people for settlement in Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

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Official policy in London was to bring\u00a0 non-English Protestants\u00a0 to Nova\u00a0 Scotia to\u00a0 establish a\u00a0 loyal,\u00a0 agricultural\u00a0 colony and to establish communities\u00a0 capable of exploiting the fishery. The answer\u00a0 at\u00a0 least\u00a0 for\u00a0 agricultural\u00a0 communities\u00a0 was\u00a0 to\u00a0 recruit\u00a0 foreign Protestants from the\u00a0 German\u00a0 States.\u00a0 The Crown hired\u00a0 John Dick in Rotterdam to recruit settlers for Nova Scotia. The Crown pursued the policy\u00a0 from 1750 to 1752.\u00a0 Because\u00a0 of the\u00a0 cost of\u00a0 establishing a settlement\u00a0 and\u00a0 supporting\u00a0 the settlers until they were relatively self-sufficient,\u00a0 the\u00a0 Crown\u00a0 suspended\u00a0 the\u00a0 policy\u00a0 of\u00a0 recruiting foreign Protestants for Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

The result of the\u00a0 settlement\u00a0 policy was the\u00a0 establishment of Lunenburg in 1753.\u00a0 The Rothenhauser\u00a0 family\u00a0 was among the settlers\u00a0 who found themselves at Lunenburg in June 1753.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rodenhiser Kin-nections HISTORICAL\u00a0\u00a0 BACKGROUND Contributor: Kenneth S. Paulsen The Rothenhauser family immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1751. The exact reasons that the family left Klein-Heubach may never be known.\u00a0 However, a combination of factors may have been considered when they decided\u00a0 to leave.\u00a0 It\u00a0 may\u00a0 have\u00a0 been a combination\u00a0 of\u00a0 \u2026<\/p>\n

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