Re: Arbogasts from Niederbronn Alsace
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In reply to:
Re: Arbogasts from Niederbronn Alsace
Kay (Ladd) Teman 8/02/04
Notice about religions in Alsace: most non-Catholic (I mean Roman Catholic) people are "Lutheran Reformed" - the German branch of the Reform (Alsace was German at the time of the Reform, back to the 16th century).
In Bavaria, most people are Roman Catholic. At least in the past days (after the Reform wars about the 16th century, each local realm in Germany had to choose one "official" religion - thus a quite straightforward "guessing" of people's religion in those times).
Hope it may help,
Emmanuel (my mother was born Arbogast)