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- Anabaptist teacher who escaped from Schwarzenegg prison in 1692. This has not been documented, but is reported in the Mennonite Encyclopedia (Vol.II, p.520). Living at Hulshof, Wittgenstein, 1713.
“In 1695, Christian is mentioned for the first time in the Alsace, where he "together with his grown-up son" is a tenant on the Teutonic Knights Order castle estate at Riedseltz. (Archives Departementales du Bas-Rhin, Strasbourg). After Christian lived on Lords von Fleckenstein's chateau estate at Niederrodern between 1708 and 1712, he seems to have moved for a time to the Fronsburgerhof near Lembach, Alsace. While his son, Hans, stayed there, father Christian moved with the rest of the family to the County Wittgenstein (actually Southern Westphalia) where he leased the Hulshof estate near Laasphe, together with his son-in-law, Christian Schlabach (lease contract of 1713).
“Christian Güngerich was born at Heimberg and baptized at Steffisburg June 4, 1648. In 1668 he married Barbara Rubi. Their descendants account for every known Amish Mennonite Güngerich or Gingerich.
Karl Manuel, the mayor of Thun 1686-92, was an outspoken critic of Anabaptism. He was responsible for the confinement of Christian Güngerich at Schwarzenegg in 1692. Christian escaped and went to Lower Alsace. In 1698 he is mentioned as a leaseholder at Riedseltz; 1708-12 on the Fleckensteinerhof near Wissembourg; then on the castle estate Froensbourg at Lembach; finally leasing an estate near Laasphe in the principality of Wittgenstein (now in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on its border with Hesse) in 1713. [2, 3]
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1648 - Aft 1713 (> 66 years)
