Re: FORSTER fam from Bavaria immigrated to St. Louis @1840
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Re: FORSTER fam from Bavaria immigrated to St. Louis @1840
Terry Forster 2/15/03
Terry,
Kirchenbirkig, Haselbrunn and Pottenstein are small cities/villages, all very close to each other, north-east of Nuremberg (spelled Nürnberg in German).This area is called Franconia (Franken), politically a part of Bavaria.You can check this out by browsing to www.mapquest.com and entering the three names, they are all very close.
Have a look at http://www.pottenstein.de/http://www.pottenstein.de/
Kirchenbirkig is mentioned there, as well, plus there's a small section in English. For images and such you'have to browse the German part of the site.
Pottenstein has a cool medieval castle:
http://www.burgpottenstein.de/http://www.burgpottenstein.de/
(Burg is castle in German)
Ralf
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