The Great Hollenberg Saga. Heinz Niederste-Hollenberg

up to that point, given some form of descriptive I. D., like e. g. for:

      Niederste Hollenberg, Hermann († ??, ??, 1692) was called “Herman Alter (Older) Halenberg”

      and his first child was called “Lucas Lüdeke Halenberg”,

      his second child was called “Herman Halenbergs kind” (daughter).

      Oberste Hollenberg, Johann († 10.09.1675) was called “Old Johann tom Holenberg“,

      and his wife called: “Old Johann tom Holenbergs wife”(dt.:’fraw’).

      Our historian, Mrs. Brigitte Jahnke, has taken it upon her to gather those informative data and to create an overall “Hollenberg-Family-Tree” into a systematic library from those early days on throughout the following centuries. This family-tree of the Hollenbergs includes on one hand not only the direct lines coming from the two family strings of the original “Holenberg” estate mentioned in the books of 1146 AD, but it also presents those many branches who left the parental place over time. The latter part links the branches with marriages, name-changes etc., spreading, initially into surrounding or familiar territories, then, later-on, emigrating to different parts around the world – noticeably with heavy emphasis to North-America.

      Other areas of interest outside Germany were e.g.: Holland (trade, handy-craftmen, linen-clothing),

      Skandinavia (trade etc.), Eastern Europe (land-offerings by misc. governments, tax advantages etc.).

      And, yet, many questions remain unresolved for those who left the family base.

      The data available so far showed only few cases where both family strings joined their blood lines directly. One of them was when:

      • Oberste Hollenberg, Johan Henrich (*13.11.1775) married on: 17.01.1798

      • Niederste Hollenberg, Anna Catharina (*18.03.1772)

      Both lived in the Hollenberg “Bake-House”. They had three children:

      (1) --- Cath. Elsabein (*03.02.1800) married Hermann Heinrich Teepe.

      (2) --- Cath. Agnesa (*17.09.1802) married Jörgen Heinrich Knüppe.

      (3) --- Johann Gerhard Heinrich Hollenberg (*21.10.1806), died in Indiana (†17.02.1846)

      Both parties immigrated to America on: 04.09.1832 with each of their sons:

      --- Friedrich Rudolph Teepe --- and --- Friedrich Wilhelm Knüppe ---

      (see Special Section: “The Other Hollenbergs”, Details I)

      The line of Friedrich Rudolph Teepe continues in America into the lines of Tapy and Hoffmann.