[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Geography Lesson please

[Jerry Frank]

Good description, Joe.

To see the location on a map, download:

http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/digkonyv/topo/200e/41-52.jpg

Enlarge the map if necessary and go to the right hand side.  Follow the numbers there.  Just above the 52 you will see the city of Brest Litowsk.  Go further down to the #50 and still a little further to see the word Russland written along the side.  A grid line extends to the left from there.  Follow it till it crosses the river which is the Bug River.  Just below that line is the place name Kol. Nejbrow.  That is Neubruch.  Just above you will see Kol. Nejdorf which of course is Neudorf.


Jerry



----- Original Message -----
From: Joe Pessarra <joepessarra at suddenlink.net>
Date: Thursday, June 7, 2007 1:41 pm
Subject: Re: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Geography Lesson please

> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <rlyster at telusplanet.net>
> To: <ger-poland-volhynia at eclipse.sggee.org>
> Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 8:21 AM
> Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Geography Lesson please
> 
> 
> > I am trying to understand the movement of my ancestors:
> >
> > Clearly they came from Germany (or whatever it was called then) 
> to Lodz
> and
> > then to villages of Milashev and Mydzk.  I know where these are.
> >
> > However the Hollander side from Neudorf-Neubruch on the banks of 
> the Bug
> River
> > (where is this) went to Josefin which is also near Luck as 
> above...I know
> > where that is but where can I find Neudorf-Neubruch on a map?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Rita Lyster
> >
> >
> The Western Bug River is in the Ukraine, Poland and Belarus.  The 
> SouthernBug River is in the Ukraine.  See:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(Rivers)
> 
> "The Bug or Buh River, called Western Bug to distinguish it from 
> SouthernBug, flows from central Ukraine to the west, forming part 
> of the boundary
> between Ukraine and Poland, passes along the Polish-Belarusian border,
> within Poland, and empties into the Narew river near Serock 
> (actually to the
> artificial Zegrze Lake). The part between the lake and the Vistula 
> River is
> sometimes referred to as Bugo-Narew. The Vistula River drains into the
> Baltic Sea."
> 
> Check this site.
> http://www.sggee.org/pipermail/ger-poland-volhynia/2003-
> July/002090.html
> "The so called "Bug-Hollander" settlements Neudorf-Neubruch 20km south
> of Brest were founded in 1617, on the banks of the Bug River. The
> settlers were of Lutheran faith (no Mennonites) with names like
> Hildebrand, Hueneburg, Baum, Krebs, Holz, Buetow, Sillentin/Selent,
> Lodwig, Popke, Ryll, to name a few. By the time their ancestors
> emigrated to Prussia and Poland (abt. 1520-1550), the Netherlands were
> part of the German Reich."
> 
> Joe in Texas
> 
> 
> 
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