[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migration route Poland to Volhynia

[Edelgard Strobel]

Hi Dick, Ed and Sandra,

Excuse my bad translation. I couldn't find the word for "Planwagen" in my
dictionary. I meant wagons that were covered with canvas against the
weather.

The names of the people on this trek in 1875 to Neu-Dorosin were:
Christian Janot and Gottfried Schulz from Alt-Borowiec
Ernst Zache, Gottlieb Zache and Georg Reinholz from Piskory, Stawiszyn
Peter Fendrich, August Deckert, August Polinski, Gottfried Hein, Samuel
M|ller and Jacob Schulz from the Plock area.
(from an article about Neu-Dorosin written by Kantor A. Depner according to
oral delivery)

I suppose the same as Dick, that the people joined to other groups on their
way to Volhynia to help each other.

For those who are trying to find persons in Volhynia:
try the following websites:
http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/re-cgi-bin/qsearch
Search String: name you are searching for
Data Category: St. Petersburg archives
the other is
http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/stpete/volhynia/

Good luck!

Regards from Germany,

Edelgard






----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Stein" <stein at enel.ucalgary.ca>
To: "Edelgard Strobel" <udostrobel at surfeu.de>
Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 9:43 PM
Subject: RE: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migration route Poland to Volhynia


> Hi Edelgard,
>
> Thanks for the information.  I wondered whether the people travelled in
> large groups for protection from robbers, and to assist each other.  Also
> they would be in a better position as a group to make a deal with a
> landowner to start a new colony.  Your people in Plonk were quite a way
east
> of mine in Sompolno and probably took a different route.  Three weeks
seems
> to be quite good time for such a large group with horses - more than 25 km
> each day.
>
> You said they travelled by "planwagons" -- what is a planwagon?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Dick Stein
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ger-poland-volhynia-admin at eclipse.sggee.org
> [mailto:ger-poland-volhynia-admin at eclipse.sggee.org]On Behalf Of
> Edelgard Strobel
> Sent: February 16, 2003 12:58 PM
> To: ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org
> Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migration route Poland to Volhynia
>
>
> Hi Dick,
>
> My Zache relatives from Piskory, Stawiszyn travelled together with some
> people from Borowiec, Grodziec and the Weichsel low ground near Plock by
> horse and planwagons to Neu Dorosin, Rozyszcze in Volhynia in 1875. A long
> row of wagons like a caravan, that was covered with tents, to protect the
> people of the rain. 11 settlers with their families, whose destination was
> the gouvernement of Zytomir, because they already had relatives there. But
> they were stopped by agents and were persuaded to settle in Neu Dorosin,
> Rozyszcze, where they bought a piece of forest for 500 Rubel from a
> nobleman. For the way from the Kalisz area  to Volhynia they needed 3
weeks.
>
> Greetings from cold Germany,
>
> Edelgard
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Stein" <stein at enel.ucalgary.ca>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Saturday, February 15, 2003 6:35 PM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Migration route Poland to Volhynia
>
>
> > From my reading of the information available, it appears that several
> > thousand German families migrated to Volhynia in the 1860s and 1870s
from
> > the Kujawien Lakes area of Poland.  There must have been a main route
that
> > many followed.  I would appreciate any information on the location of
this
> > route from, for example, Sompolno to the area of Lutsk, Volhynia.  The
> most
> > direct route would seem to be through Lodz, Radom, Lublin, Chelm and on
> into
> > Volhynia.  Is it correct to assume that they travelled by horse and
wagon
> > with their belongings, or did some travel by train?  If the latter, what
> > would be the route?  If by horse and wagon, I wonder how long it would
> have
> > taken.  The straight-line distance is about 500 km.
> > Thanks in advance for your help.
> >
> > Dick Stein
> > stein at enel.ucalgary.ca
> > Researching:  Stein, Riske, Kitzmann, Schachtschneider, Rachui, Abram,
> Drews
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