[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Why Germans in Poland

[GVLESS at aol.com]

Gunther and others on this list - did not some of the Germans come into  
Poland because of some of the large estate owners at the time needing workers  for 
the farms?  And the Germans leaving their homes in western areas  because of 
the devastation of the area by Napoleon?  In our research of my  husband's 
Bergstrasser  families they arrived in Poland at the turn of the  19th century 
(about 1801 etc) settling in NowoSolna (Neu Sulzfeld) east of  Lodz  and it 
seems to us that in the history of the time  that  could have been their reason 
for leaving the Rhine river area  around Worms was because of Napoleon's thrust 
he had made into this area.   Did we make the correct assumption here?  The 
Bergstrasser family were  not from an urban area or craftsmen as such.  What 
about these estates that  were not in cities in Poland thus needing workers to 
work the land?
What percentage might that have been?  Just wondering.  Would  like to see 
more discussion on this subject I guess.
 
Sincerely,
Virginia Less



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