Guten Abend from Germany!

All right, Hambach in Lorraine. I have a 1905 postcard in my collection from that village.

 

Wilkomen. Sein Englisch ist Phantastisch! Ich denke das Sie haben viel uns zu lehren.

I hope that you enjoy the forum. I've not been here long, but it seems an interesting place. I too once enjoyed the art of constructing the plastic model. And while it is many years since they left, I once had relatives in Alsace. The Moginot side of our family hailed from somewhere in the neighborhood as I understand it. (And I thought of them when touring Strassbourg as a fresh child just out of High School.)

Indeed, you are surrounded by history sir. I hope that you will share some of it with us. Welcome. And thank you.

 

Again, thank You all very much! And special thanks to Skipper! At about the time this card has been stamped my Grandfather must have left Hambach to come here and pay attentions to my Grandmother-to-be. She descended from one of the five or six families who settled here, coming from Tyrol, after the 30 Years' War, during which our village had been completely depopulated.

 

Yes the same happened in Alsace, many people have descendants and ancestors in Schwabenland, or Saarland. When you go to an Alsacian village the local monument will say "for the fallen" instead of the usual "for the country" because members from a same family fought on both sides between 1870 and 1945 , depending on generations, locations etc.. and they changed nationalities four times (1871, 1918, 1940 and 1945) . I have a collection of old postcards from the 1900-1918 period with many village postal cancelations in German and bilingual postcards.

 

funny one of the old homestead's on my mothers side is still in Heusweiler from the early 1800's - Saarland - two relatives still reside there.

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Welcome to the forum matey.