Notes:
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)"
Matches 1 to 22 of 22
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Birth | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Coerts, Jurjen | About 1695 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I806293 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
2 | Dammer, Hindrik Hindriks | 1759 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I112633 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
3 | Dammer, Hindrik Jans | 1726 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I220321 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
4 | Dammer, Pieter Hindriks | 1753 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I72798 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
5 | Harms, Jurjen | About 1675 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I173773 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
6 | Haverkamp, Johan Hindrik | Saturday 26 January 1782 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I617733 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
7 | Jans, Philippus | About 1685 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I173768 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
8 | Jans, Philipus | 1730 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I247939 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
9 | Joosten, Pieter | Estimated in 1749 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I105214 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
10 | Jurrens, Pieter | About 1770 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I468511 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
11 | Kaspers, Jurjen | Estimated in 1752 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I332392 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
12 | Kubbe, Harm Pieters | About 1755 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I129375 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
13 | Pot, Hindrik Pieters | Approximately 1766 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I43598 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
14 | Schipper, Harm Pieters | About 1744 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I769391 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
15 | Scholte, Hindrik Jurjens | About 1750 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I722601 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
16 | Spakman, Filippus Koerts | Approximately 1781 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I111116 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
17 | Steinhaus, Pieter Filippus | Monday 22 October 1792 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I556926 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
18 | Strothmann, Philip Wilhelm | 1786 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I58863 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
19 | Sulman, Willem | Friday 05 August 1785 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I705408 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
20 | Wendelkes, Hindrik | Approximately 1767 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I478803 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
21 | Witkop, Pieter Koerts | About 1695 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I34582 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
22 | Woestman, Willem | About 1710 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I433479 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Last Name, Given Name(s) | Christening | Person ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Strothmann, Philip Wilhelm | Friday 14 April 1786 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | I58863 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
Matches 1 to 1 of 1
Family | Marriage | Family ID | Tree | ||
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1 | Dammer / | 1752 | Versmold, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland | F86826 | Veenkoloniale voorouders |
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