| |
| | GERMANNA COLONY NOTES, GERMANNA COLONY HISTORY, GERMANNA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Before 1620, the Kraichgau was overpopulated but, during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648 and they had to stop the war in 1648 because the thirty years were up*) and the wars of the late seventeenth century, the armies of the larger powers nearly obliterated the villages in the Kraichgau. |
 | | With the vacant land, farms, and homes that had been created by the wars and the ancillary troubles, the rulers in the Kraichgau were hard pressed to raise the tax money that their dreams demanded. |
 | | Returning to the Kraichgau region and Fogleman's book, "Hopeful Journeys," large scale emigration began in the middle third of the eighteenth century as the population pressure built to a critical stage. |
| www.germanna.net /1s.htm (10922 words) |
|