[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 1840 Poznan area to 1860 Volhynia: StoppingPlaces

[richard benert]

Bill, there is an interesting map in Oskar Kossman's "Die Deutschen in 
Polen", which gives founding dates for many German settlements throughout 
Congress-Poland, from the 17th to the 19th centuries.  One place that 
apparently opened up to German settlement after 1840 was an area about 30 
miles n.e. of Warsaw, and slightly s.e. of Radzymin.  A founding date of 
1843 is given for Czubajowizna, Majdan, Nadbiel and Deutsch Reczaje.  My 
maternal Bartel grandparents moved from Reczaje in the 1860s to Volhynia. 
Earlier, like your relatives, they had lived farther west, downstream along 
the Vistula.  So that is one possibility.

However, close inspection of this map shows post-1840 founding dates for 
several villages in areas that had long harbored German farmers, such as 
Sompolno, Lodz, etc.  For example, I find near Sompolno the villages of 
Jablkow (1841), Szarlatowa (1855), Olszewo (1861) and Zaryn (1852).  Near 
Plock I find Duninow (1840) and Elizin (1850).  Even near Lodz you can find 
Apolonia (1840), Florentynow (1855), Chelmy (1850), Marianow (1850) and a 
cluster of villages just n.e. of Zgierz including Czaplinek (1859), and 
Janow, Hozefow and Ukraina (all 1862).

>From this it would appear that a few new farming areas were developed not 
far from the older ones, even after 1840.  In case you're wondering, I can't 
see that Kossmann has anything to say in answer to your question.  He 
devotes all of 5 or 6 pages to the period between 1840 and 1860, saying that 
this was a time of slowing down of migrant activity, save for an influx of 
new colonists from Hesse (which may account for some of the new villages in 
older areas) and a great outflow to the U.S.  The FHL does have films from 
the Radzymin area, if that looks promising to you.  (Alas, I've lost track 
of my copies so I can't give you the numbers).

Dick Benert
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William Remus" <remus at hawaii.edu>
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Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 4:50 PM
Subject: [Ger-Poland-Volhynia] 1840 Poznan area to 1860 Volhynia: 
StoppingPlaces


>I have been very successfully finding my ancestral Haarwardt family (and 
>other Volhynia families) just east of Poznan in Labischen. Then, all the 
>sudden they disappear after 1840 and reappear in the early 1860's in 
>Volhynia. So they must have spent about 20 years farming in Russian Poland 
>and been driven out by the Polish revolt in Russian Poland in the early 
>1860's. And to SK and MB around 1900.
>
> So does anyone know what farming areas opened up in the 1840's in Russian 
> Poland that might have attracted them. I believe opportunities around 
> Sampolno, Plock, Rawa and Lodz were around 1800 so too early...
>
> Regards Bill Remus
> Haarwardt, Remus, Hoffmann, Podjan, Spitzer, and others ....
>
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