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Sandra, I'll begin this time by saying that like the U.S., Germany has always been made up of states.
There is no such place as a "Platz". "Pfalz" is simply German for "Palatinate", just like "Deutschland" is German for "Germany". The Palatinate, however, belonged to the German state of Bavaria, not to the German state of Prussia. So if you think Conrad Baldauf might have been from the Palatinate, then he was not a Prussian.
You say your American relatives were VERY SPECIFIC about the location. Well, if they have such specific information, Sandra, what city, town or village was Conrad Baldauf from? That of course would answer the question about what state he was from -- Bavaria or Prussia. (And if you're going over there in December, I'm assuming that you want to visit the town he was from anyway, right?)
Following World War II and the break-up of the vast German state of Prussia by the Allies, the southern half of the Prussian Rhineland, the Bavarian Palatinate, and the region of Hesse known as Rhenish Hesse (in German: Rheinhessen) combined to form today's new postwar state of Rhineland-Palatinate (in German: Rheinland-Pfalz), with the Rhenish Hessian city of Mainz as its capital.
At that same time, the northern half of the Prussian Rhineland, the Prussian province of Westphalia, and the very small state of Lippe combined to form today's new postwar German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (in German: Nordrhein-Westfalen), with the city of Düsseldorf in the Rhineland as its capital.
As I told you last time, Sandra, the INDUSTRIAL area of the Rhineland was and is in the northern Rhineland, not in the southern Rhineland! So if Conrad Baldauf was really from the industrial region of the Rhineland, then your American relatives are simply mistaken, Sandra, if they say he was from the southern Rhineland. (The Prussian Rhineland, by the way, covered an area roughly the same as that covered by the U.S. state of Massachusetts. Its capital was the city of Koblenz, and its largest city was Cologne.)
Robert
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