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Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland



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Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
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Versmold is a town in Gütersloh District in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is located some 30 km west of Bielefeld.

In the past it was known in Holland as Vasmer.

History

Belonging to Westphalia, Versmold formed the western most town of the historical county of Ravensberg with its capital Bielefeld. Since 1614 the county belonged to Brandenburg and later to Prussia. Within the the predominant Catholic Westphalia, the county of Ravensberg is Protestant. In 1719 the King of Prussia granted city rights in order to raise more taxes. In the 19th century the county was poor and subsistence oriented. Only a linen production is worthy to note. During the harvest season many people sought for an additional income in Holland. During the 1850s and 1860s the city saw an extensive emigration to America, due to the weak economic situation. After 1871 when the newly united Germany built up a navy, the linenen-industry became prosperous by providing sailing canvases. Most notably engaged in the linen-industry was the family Delius, with dependances in Berlin and Hamburg. Since the WWII the city flourished mainly due to its meat-processing factories, which had grown out of the rural art of sausage-making. Its population is nowadays about 20.000 inhabitants.

Memorials

As in many small German towns part of its modern history had become a visible expression within the cityscape. A small unimposing stone cross from the 11th c. in the middle of a traffic circle had been once the sign for a rural medieval courtt. A bronze medaillon of Otto von Bismarck and bronze bust of the German emperor Wilhelm I are signs of the patriotism and the Bismarck-cult in the 1880s. They are in the city's park. The bust of Wilhelm I is since more than 20 years much damaged by vandalism and hard to find hidden behind bushes. The medaillon however is attached to a stone block leisurely placed at one of the walkways. The fallen WWI soldiers from the municipality of Vermold are remembered on a monument in front of the Protestant church, a column crowned by an eagle. The victims of WW II, without giving their names, found a place of memory in a small park behind the townhall in the form of bronze crosses and a bronze flambeaux in the style of the fifties. IIn the middle of the town, very prominent, right in front of the town hall a memorial of the former Jewish population was set up in the late nineties naming the local victims of the Holocaust. Most prominent among them figures the family Spiegel. The new blossoming of the town after WWII is visualized by a bronze statue of a worker with a pig passing under his legs, and holding a stick with six sausages hanging from it. It stands across the Protestant church on a modern (80s) Italian style 'piazza'. This statue is locally known as "Schweinebrunnen" (pig's fountain)"

City/Town : Latitude: 52.0419330963389, Longitude: 8.155374526977539


Birth

Matches 1 to 22 of 22

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Birth    Person ID   Tree 
1 Coerts, Jurjen  About 1695Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I806293 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
2 Dammer, Hindrik Hindriks  1759Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I112633 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
3 Dammer, Hindrik Jans  1726Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I220321 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
4 Dammer, Pieter Hindriks  1753Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I72798 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
5 Harms, Jurjen  About 1675Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I173773 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
6 Haverkamp, Johan Hindrik  Saturday 26 January 1782Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I617733 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
7 Jans, Philippus  About 1685Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I173768 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
8 Jans, Philipus  1730Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I247939 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
9 Joosten, Pieter  Estimated in 1749Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I105214 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
10 Jurrens, Pieter  About 1770Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I468511 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
11 Kaspers, Jurjen  Estimated in 1752Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I332392 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
12 Kubbe, Harm Pieters  About 1755Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I129375 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
13 Pot, Hindrik Pieters  Approximately 1766Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I43598 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
14 Schipper, Harm Pieters  About 1744Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I769391 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
15 Scholte, Hindrik Jurjens  About 1750Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I722601 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
16 Spakman, Filippus Koerts  Approximately 1781Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I111116 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
17 Steinhaus, Pieter Filippus  Monday 22 October 1792Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I556926 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
18 Strothmann, Philip Wilhelm  1786Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I58863 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
19 Sulman, Willem  Friday 05 August 1785Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I705408 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
20 Wendelkes, Hindrik  Approximately 1767Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I478803 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
21 Witkop, Pieter Koerts  About 1695Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I34582 Veenkoloniale voorouders 
22 Woestman, Willem  About 1710Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I433479 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

Christening

Matches 1 to 1 of 1

   Last Name, Given Name(s)    Christening    Person ID   Tree 
1 Strothmann, Philip Wilhelm  Friday 14 April 1786Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland I58863 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

Marriage

Matches 1 to 1 of 1

   Family    Marriage    Family ID   Tree 
1 Dammer /   1752Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland F86826 Veenkoloniale voorouders 

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