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- According to Hermann Guth in Amish Mennonites in Germany, Unzicker was a leaseholder on the Konigreicherhof estate at St. Wendel (now in Saarland) in 1802. He shared the lease with brother-in-law Christian Hauter. In 1802 or 1803 Unzicker moved farther east into Bavaria. In Bavaria Daniel and Elisabeth leased an estate belonging to the cloister Polling (40 miles southwest of Munich). Later they purchased a dairy farm Abstried of the cloister Wessobrunn (the same area).
“Daniel Unzicker, in former times farmer of the Konigreicherhof, applicates for the cattle farm Schlossberg in Hausern, belonging to cloister Benedicktbeuren. Date 30 Jul 1803. He takes on lease the real estate cloister Polling on 31 Oct 1803, beginning with Candlemas 1804. After a short time this real estate had been sold to a Swiss manufacturer and Unzicker as well as his four subtenants (one of them Eyer) and the families are expelled from the leased estate in midst of winter. He therefore asks for compensation and nominates a sum of 10,000 fl. after a certain time. Unzicker meanwhile had applicated [applied] several times for other real estates, he buys the cattle farm Abtsried from the Royal Special Cloister Commission in Munic after the Ministry of Finance had accorded, with dwelling house, stables for cows, house for the dairy man, etc., for 5,000 fl., 4,000 fl. from this amount being compensation for the estate of cloister Polling. Date: 22 Mar 1805.
“Daniel Unzicker had as a wife a yet unknown daughter of Nicolaus Hauter of the Estate Monbijou near Zweibrücken--that means a sister of those Johannes and Christian Hauter we wrote about in our letter. This can be taken from a mandate dated 20 Aug 1802, with which U. gives full power to his father-in-law and brother-in-law. Later on a further Daniel Unzicker had a daughter of the Hauter family. One Unzicker must have stayed in Munic.”
In 1805 Daniel Zehr, born in Bas-Rhin takes on lease of the same cattle farm, Abtsried, which D. Unzicker bought and kept it for 18 years.
Further to the above, records show that “Daniel Unzicker is mentioned in the document as one who ‘came into a state of embarrassment by many kinds of circumstances’ and is now about to immigrate to Bavaria.”
“Written in the Pfarrmatrikel or church books of Oberaltaich:
‘On July 14, 1810 Daniel Unzicker died on Freundorfer Hof in a tragic way. It must have been a hot day of work or harvesting when in the evening a thunderstorm arrived. Daniel and his people were yet working in the fields or in the woods when the thunderstorm let loose. Surely all looked for shelter, but lightening hit Daniel at 7:00 p.m. and killed him. He was only 36 years of age. He was buried in the Freundorfer Hof garden.’ ” [1, 2, 4]
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1773 - 1810 (36 years)
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