Re: TREMER/TRIMMER - a TRUMER from Salzburg?
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In reply to:
Johannes Tremer/Trimmer - a Trumer from Salzburg?
Robert Trimmer 11/18/02
Minor corrections:
Does anyone know of any possible connections of our Johannes TREMER (spelling in the will of Johannes) of the Neuwied area with Salzburg area Protestant refugees or other parts of Austria? See "The German-Americans" by Prof. LaVern J. Rippley (1984). Ripply states that the Austrian Catholic Archbishop expelled some 30,000 Protestants from the Salzburg area in 1731 (p.26) - others leaving earlier. Under Ferdinand II persecutions of Protestants beginning in 1620 in greater Austria drove out Protestants most of whom went to the German states (per Dr. George Moore in "A Special Union" (1998)). Neuwied, on the Rhine River, was a known area of settlement by Protestant refugees from Alsace/Lorraine (Elsass-Lothringen)and other areas of German speakers which fact was even mentioned in Baedeker's "Rhine" travel book.
The Trumer area is ca. 15 km from Salzburg.
See also Prof. Carl Manuelshagen's "The Salzburg Lutheran Expulsion and its Impact" (1962/1994 reprint); earlier persecutions are described.
Robert W. Trimmer