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A very special family reunion in Weilheim

2022-06-21T08:06:42.152Z


Every family has roots that go back hundreds of years - and mostly can hardly be traced anymore. It's different with the Ammermüllers: Distributed all over the world, they are united by the knowledge of their common past. The family only recently met in Weilheim.


Every family has roots that go back hundreds of years - and mostly can hardly be traced anymore.

It's different with the Ammermüllers: Distributed all over the world, they are united by the knowledge of their common past.

The family only recently met in Weilheim.

Weilheim

– In America you would only be one thing: flabbergasted.

"For many, the family tree ends at the latest with the great-grandfather," says Erica Aumüller, who lives in New Jersey, and laughs.

There can be no question of this in the case of her family: the Ammermüllers are a widely ramified family living scattered across the globe with dozens of people who are related to one another.

So far so good.

Nothing special really - after all, everyone has a family history behind them and can tell a lot about it.

But the fact that most of the Ammermüllers know each other personally and get together every five years to maintain family ties is probably a rarity.

The ancestor ran a mill on the Ammer

These meetings are a kind of mandatory program that you can't evade, as if set in stone.

They last met in 2012 and 2017.

Around 40 family members found their way to Weilheim again.

Because right here, in the small town in Upper Bavaria, far from New York, Sydney, Madrid and anywhere else on the globe, the roots of the family lie.

Around 1522, Steffan Ammermüller lived here in Weilheim – more precisely: on Kanalstraße near today’s wooden bridge.

Miller of his character, who operated a mill on the Ammer.

This is documented by a document that identifies this man as a tenant.

Always enthusiastic about Weilheim

The proven origin goes back even further, to a certain Hans Ammermüller, who was born around 1500 in Weilheim and died around 1560 in Alzey, France.

"It must have been the younger brother of the named Steffan, who received a good education at the community school in Weilheim and financial support instead of the mill," says Martin Ammermüller, who lives in the Cologne/Bonn region and is the driving force the search for clues in matters of family history and kinship care.

Ten years ago, the 79-year-old, in his own words, still had some trouble "evoking a sense of home", but the tide has now turned: "I like coming here, I'm always excited."

Weilheim, Tubingen, New York

Other important stations are Tübingen, where Ludwig Christian (1785-1852) ended up, and then New York, where four siblings emigrated to in 1854 to escape the economic hardship in Württemberg at the time.

However, three of them returned to Germany four years later.

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Since 1938, Martin Ammermüller describes, the family, threatened with extinction, has been growing again.

Erica Aumüller and her father Arthur may not speak German, but they are proud of their origins and will also make a note of future dates in their calendars.

"It's a matter of honor that I'm coming," he is already looking forward to.

The meetings are embedded in an extensive supporting program.

This year - how could it be otherwise - a round trip on the Ammersee was on the program, before that it was on the Wallberg near Tegernsee.

Source: merkur

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