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Where our Goldman family lived in Germany

The red star marks the location of Dalsheim. Gundheim is shown to the right of Dalsheim.
Map courtesy of Map Quest
Following data from a search at GEOnet Names Server
NAME DESIG. LATITUDE LONGITUDE AREA UTM JOG NO.
Dalsheim PPLX 49°39'45"N 8°12'10"E GM08 MA40 NM32-08
NAME DESIG. LATITUDE LONGITUDE AREA UTM JOG NO.
Gundheim PPL 49°40'33"N 8°14'16"E GM08 MA40 NM32-08
Dalsheim and Gundheim are located in the modern political division (state?) of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany , historic district of Lower Palatinate. Gundheim is located approximately 10 miles west of the Rhine River, almost directly across from a point approximately 2 miles north of Worms, Germany. Gundheim is one to two miles east of Dalsheim, between Dalsheim and the Rhine. Worms, Germany sits on the Rhine River, approximately 10 miles north of Mannheim.


The Palatine referred to an area around the Rhine River that lay between the land controlled by France and Germany. Its soil was the frequent path of armies and field of battle. The people were open eared to the preaching of Calvin and Luther and early became Lutherans and Reformed Christians. Between the years 1684 and 1713, the area of Palatine was almost constantly in war. The residents were often persecuted because of their protestant faith. The War of Spanish Succession, 1702-1713, completed the destruction of the Palatine. Farm land was laid to waste, villages destroyed, the inhabitants imprisoned, burned at the stake, broken on wheels or drowned.

Thousands of the people of the Palatine region escaped the area during these years. They filled the streets of the cities of Europe. Many found their way to Holland, then across the English Channel to Great Britain. Johann Conrad Goldtmann and Anton Goldtmann were residents of Gundheim in 1698. They were Lutherans, registered in the Churchbooks at Dalsheim. Koenraat Koltman, (Dutch spelling) his wife, and five children were in the sixth party of refugees to reach Rotterdam, Holland in 1709.
        
Jacob Goldman was born in the German Palatine; a son of Johann Conrad Goldtmann. His mother's name is unknown. She appears again, and again on New York and Pennsylvania records identified as "Widow Goldman". Conrad Goldtman his wife and five children fled the Palatine for Holland in 1709; were sent on to England Isles of Man in June, 1709; and first appear on Governor Hunter's Lists in New York on July 4, 1710. From New York, Jacob Goldman journeyed to Tulpehocken, Pennsylanva where he married Mary Abigail Brown. Johann Goldtmann's oldest son is listed in the Tulpehocken records as Conrad. Conrad named his oldest son Jacob. Jacob Goldman of Back Creek named his first son John (German Johann), his second son, Jacob, and his third Henry for H. Johann Wagner believed to be connected to this family. Perhaps he had sons named Martin and Conrad who were younger, and it is possible that Klera Hart, wife of the old Charles Hart of Back Creek was Jacob Goldman's daughter.


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