Christian Stalter b. 1750 Sarralbe, Moselle, FR d. 12 Apr 1831 Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR: The Schrock-Birkey Connection
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Christian Stalter

Male 1750 - 1831  (81 years)


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  • Name Christian Stalter  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] 
    Birth 1750  Sarralbe, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Tenscherhof in Lorhringen
    Gender Male 
    Reference Number 78 
    Religion Amish Mennonite 
    RWDN S21 
    Death 12 Apr 1831  Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    • Bickenaschbacherhof
    Person ID I78  Schrock-Birkey Connection
    Last Modified 23 Feb 2024 

    Father Heinrich Stalter,   b. 1725, Grostenquin, Linstroff, Moselle, Lorraine, FR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Feb 1800, Sarralbe, Moselle, FR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Unknown 
    Family ID F7272  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Magdalena Hauter,   b. Jun 1759, Ixheim, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Dec 1805, Hengstbach, Zweibrücken, GR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Marriage 1785 
    Children 
     1. Christian Stalter,   b. 27 Mar 1781   d. 16 Jun 1868, Hengstbach, Zweibrücken, GR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 87 years)
     2. Joseph Stalter,   b. 27 Mar 1786, Hornbach, Palatinate, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Jan 1853, Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 66 years)
     3. Jacob Stalter,   b. 1790, Hornbach, Palatinate, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 May 1851 (Age 61 years)
     4. Magdalena Stalter,   b. 1793
     5. Johannes Stalter,   b. 1789   d. 1828 (Age 39 years)
     6. Katharina Stalter,   b. 1797   d. 28 Feb 1868 (Age 71 years)
     7. Heinrich Stalter,   b. 25 May 1800, GR Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1872 (Age 71 years)
     8. Maria Stalter,   b. 29 May 1802   d. 10 Dec 1812 (Age 10 years)
     9. Daniel Stalter,   b. 5 Dec 1805   d. 10 Nov 1846 (Age 40 years)
    Family ID F30  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 12 Mar 2017 

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 1750 - Sarralbe, Moselle, FR Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 12 Apr 1831 - Zweibrücken, Rheinland-Pfalz, GR Link to Google Earth
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  • Notes 
    • One of the effects of the French revolution was the annexing of the territories to the north east of what was then France. This included Belgium, Savoy, Nice, and all lands up to the Rhine River. This was accomplished by 1793. This change of government had to have been noticed by our Stalter ancestors. When the Kirschbacher Hof estate was ransacked by the invading armies the Heinrich Stalter family took temporary refuge with eldest son, Christian, who was a leasholder on the Bickenaschbacher Hof. For reasons unknown, this estate was not destroyed. Christian Stalter was residing on Bickenaschbacher Hof when he died in 1831.

      In 1800 Hienrich Stalter died on the Tenschof estate. His widow apparently returned to the Bickenaschbacher Hof for it was from here that she wrote a letter to the former Duke Max Joseph of Zweibrücken. In this letter, which is still kept in an archives in Munich, she explains her gloomy circumstances, and reminds the Elector of his promise given to her husband at the occasion of his visit at the Elector’s exile at Rohrbach castle near Heidleberg; namely that the Stalter family should obtain another estate as soon as “his Highness should acquire other dominions”.

      The Elector, in fact, remembered his promise and ordered that the Stalter family (several sons and a nephew of Heinrich Stalter) could possess considerable estates from the nationalized Upper Bavarian Abbey’s properties. These Abbey (church) properties were available because, as part of the changes brought about by the French Revolution, there was a great reduction in the power of the Catholic Church. Church lands were confiscated and sold, or used by the French government to gain the support of those “German” noblemen who had lost property as a result of the revolution. This helped the French, because these new properity holders now were indebted to the French authorities, and therefore more likely to support the French in the new regime. This also helped our Stalter ancestors, because now there was land available for them to farm which the Elector could use to keep his promise to his friend, Heinrich Stalter.

      A number of other Amish families followed the Stalters to Bavaria, where the government readily accepted them to cultivate the abandoned Abbey’s estates. The Bavarian government was quite aware of the special abilites of the Mennonite farmers., [1, 7]

  • Sources 
    1. [S40] Hermann Guth, Amish Mennonites in Germany: Their Congregations, The Estates Where They Lived, Their Families (English edition), (Masthof Press, Morgantown, PA).

    2. [S209] Remi Stalter Records.

    3. [S379] Joanne Vercler Niswander, Our Ancestors - Christian Stalter (1750-1831).

    4. [S1519] Stalter Stories from Z-A.

    5. [S1313] Neil Ann Stuckey Levine, (Masthof Press).

    6. [S208] ?, Stalter Genealogie-Johannes and Heinrich, sons of Johannes (b. abt 1690).

    7. [S651] R. R. Palmer, A History of the Modern World, (Alfred A Knopf, 1959), p.356.


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