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Note: Name Veronica Gertrud Geisemers Mother Eva Maria Geisemers Father Johannes Geisemers Birth 16 July 1788 Baptism 20 July 1788 Dielkirchen, Bayern, Preußen Dielkirchen is a couple miles south of the village of Steckweiler, on the same river and road. They are 10-12 miles from village of Jeckenbach with the town of Meisenheim between. Name Johannes Geisheimer Spouse's Name Eva Maria Theisen Event Date 01 Mar 1781 Event Place Evangelisch-Lutherische, Dielkirchen, Pfalz, Bavaria The town is located in in Rhineland-Palatinate on the Alsenz (River) in the north Palatinate mountain country northwest of the Donnersberg approximately in the middle between Kaiserslautern and Bad Kreuznach directly on the main road 48 . The community Dielkirchen consists of the villages Dielkirchen and Steingruben as well as the hamlets Hanauerhof , Hoferhof and Giebelsbacher Hof. In 1792 French troops occupied the First Coalition Warthe Pfalz, a year later, commissars quartered with military escort in Dielkirchen and made the deposition of the oath to the new masters as a condition for their departure. The high costs for the community through the billeting forced the inhabitants to oath. As a result, it came a year later in the winter of 1793/94 both in the rule Falkenstein and in Dielkirchen to looting and pillaging by French troops, who raided about December 31, 1793, the places of the county Falkenstein. In a call for support for the deprived, a report says: "First the French looted the barns, the soil, the fruits and supplies, then they invaded the stables, dragged the cattle into the street and slaughtered them in front of the moaning Owner. Equipment loaded on brought cars. What was too fragile to move out was smashed. The food they could not take away was wantonly destroyed. The wine, which they did not drink, they let leak and shattered the barrels. They demanded cash with a drawn dagger or cocked pistol. In the end, they tore the clothes off the poor subjects. "Dielkirchen himself describes the description of the pastor:" Several days before the 06.01.1794, the feast ofThree Kings , several French officers have ridden down the Alsenztal. Probably driven by compassionate feelings, they have approached individual citizens and informed them of an impending plunder with approximately these words: "Dear people, seek as much as possible to hide your belongings, there is a great plunder, there everything is taken away 'What's to get.' The Dielkirchner did as advised. The raid, military and civil, then came on January 6 and has crossed the valley to Hochstätten . The beds and the linen, which the raiders could not take with them, they gathered on the Au and burned. " From the beginning of February, the French troops had to withdraw from the Prussians; From the middle of October, the whole area was once again owned by the French . Finally, in 1795 , Prussia and France closed the separate peace of Basel. The Palatinate and thus Dielkirchen became French, but this truce was broken and there were fights in the area. The French occupied 1797 city and fortress Mainz . The left bank areas were subordinated to the French administration. Dielkirchen now belonged to the department of Mont-Tonnerre (department Donnersberg) and after a reorganization of administration to the canton of Rockenhausen, A year later, all residents had to swear the oath on the first French Republic . In 1813 Prussia , Russians and Austrians defeated the French in the Battle of Nations near Leipzig . On New Year's Eve 1814 Marshal Blücher crossed the Rhine and at the end of January 1814 the areas on the left bank of the Rhine had been cleared by the French. Bavarian time 1816 came the Palatinate and thus the Dielkirch Valley to the Kingdom of Bavaria . In 1818, the Lutherans and the Reformed came together to form a communion of churches. On the first Sunday of this year, the Union was celebrated in church. The population grew in the 19th century.
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