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From: Robert Weinland <>
Subject: Re: Hoffmann of Asswiller
Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 22:00:43 +0200
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Hello,

Brendan Wehrung wrote :
>
> Asswiller was once the seat of the Seigneur of
> Asswiller, a rich and powerful man with his own
> fortified chateux. As such it it was a place people
> would gravitate to, and which would have a church with
> its own pastor. Fortunes changed, and the chateux was
> pulled down. The church survived, but its books did
> not. In [NEED DATE] Pator Lamberti died, but, as a
> note inserted in the church records when they were
> filmed by the Mormons says, his book was lost by his
> successors.

Since the early 1200's Asswiller was a little manor that was given as a
fief by the count of Luetzelstein and was detained by different families
between 1406 and 1456. They were especially Asswiller, Gerspach and
Huntingen. In 1444 the village was entirely destroyed and its
inhabitants were slaughtered by the Armagnacs. Then the Palatine counts
took possession of the county of Luetzelstein and introduced the Reform
between 1556 and 1558 in the county of Luetzelstein as well as in the
manor of Asswiller. From this time to the French Revolution the
Steincallenfels were the lords of Asswiller. In 1697 when the county of
Luetzelstein became French, the manor of Asswiller remained a small
enclave of the German Empire between the county of Nassau-Saarbruecken
and the French territories. In 1793 the manor was annexed by France,
like the county of Nassau-Saarbruecken was.

The castle was likely erected in the 1100's or 1200's. It was modified
in 1769 and was destroyed in the 1850's.

Martin LAMPERTI, Pastor in Asswiller died on January 15 1712, aged 82
years (source: Assweiler, by Dr Hein).

Hope this helps!

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