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Notes for Jost Engel and Christina Rohrer

1675 Christina Rohrer, daughter of Durs Rohrer and Christina Stettler, was baptized on July 19 at Bolligen, Bern, Switzerland. [1]

NB __ den 19 Julÿ 1675 hat Durß Rhorer und sein hausfrau Christina Stettler zu Bern eine ehliche tochter namens Christina tauffen lassen Zugen waren Cunrad _ilchburger Johanna Barbara Willading(?) ein gebohren …

1676 Jost Engel, son of Jost Engel and Cathryn Russer, was baptized on July 23 at Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland. [2] [3]

1696 Jost Engel and Christina Rohrer of Bolligen were married on May 14, as documented in records at the Würzbrunnen church near Röthenbach. [4] [5] [6] [7]

The Würzbrunnen church has been described as follows. [8]

The Würzbrunnen Church is a former pilgrimage church in the municipality of Röthenbach in the Emmental, Canton of Bern, Switzerland. The church was under the patronage of St. Stephan, but the pilgrimage was for St. Wolfgang.

At the location of today's late Gothic church building there was previously a wooden church, which is said to have been donated by Leuthold von Rümligen (1115–1148). In 1148 Pope Eugene III granted the Rüeggisberg monastery its ownership rights to the Würzbrunnen church and the small Röthenbach monastery. After a fire in 1494, the church was rebuilt in its current form, and in 1779 the interior was painted in baroque forms with many biblical sayings.

The church became known especially for the film adaptations of Gotthelf's works by Franz Schnyder. Today it is a popular wedding church, where numerous weddings take place from April to October.

Wurzbrunnen church photo
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Wurzbrunnen church photo
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Photos by Mike Lehmann, Mike Switzerland (talk) 08:25, 13 July 2010 (UTC), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

1697-1717 The baptisms of 7 children were recorded at the Würzbrunnen church near Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland.

1697 Barbara, daughter of Jost Engel der Jung and Christina Rohrer, was baptized on August 8 at Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland with witnesses Hans Engel, Anna Straus, and Barbara Rötlischberger. Farnerr. [9]

1700 Anna, daughter of Jost Engel and Christina Rohrer, was baptized on March 31 at Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland with witnesses Brudiche Upohli(?), Anna Rohrer, and Anna Engel. Farnerrs. [10]

1702 Cathri, daughter of Jost Engel and Christina Rohrer, was baptized on December 3 (Den 3 Christ?) at Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland with witnesses Peter (?), Anna Staüffer, and Barbara Neylor. [11]

1705 Hans, son of Jost Engel and Christina Rohrerin, was baptized on March 31 at Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland with witnesses Christan Neü(?)der, Hans Reü(?), and Cathrina Schlaggas(?). [12]

1708 Jost, son of Jost Engel and Stini Rohrer, was baptized on January 8 at Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland with witnesses Stefans Gerber, Uli Engel, Christina Sch(?). [13]

1711 Ulrich Engel, son of Jost Engel and Christina Rohrer, was baptized on March 15 in the Würzbrunnen Church, Röthenbach, Bern, with witnesses Ulli Blaser, Hans Rohrer, and Barbara Kapfer. [14]

1717 Christina, daughter of Jost Engel and Christina Rohrer, was baptized on September 12 at Röthenbach, Bern, Switzerland with witnesses Hans Rohrer, Barbara (?), and Anna (?). [15]

1722 In September and December of 1722 the "täufer" authorities notified the bailiff of Signau that the property of täufer Hans Engel is not yet liquidated yet. Jost Engle the "present tenant of der Farnern" was also warranted. It appeared that Jost Engel of Röthenbach had his brother's property and produced the title and showed that he had paid Hans everything. The Kammer (court) was satisfied. [16]

1722 Jost Engel sold his brother Hans' property and five years later he and his wife Stini Rohrer were charged with a debt thereupon. [17]

1727 Jost Engel was a "täufer" preacher in Röthenbach and left the area and would later be under arrest if he returned to preach and give communion. [18]

1727 Jost and Christina Engel, with their children, left their home at Farnern in Röthenbach in the Emmental, because of persecution of Anabaptists, and moved to the Bishopric of Basel. They lived in the area of Corgémont in the Jura region. [19]

1751 Jost Engel was called an Anabaptist of Röthenbach when he was buried at Corgemont on January 22. [20] [21]

1751 Janv 22 Jost Enguel de Röthenbach Cant: de Bern. Anab

Research Notes:

Geneanet. [22] [23]


Footnotes:

[1] Staatsarchivs des Kantons Bern, K Bolligen 3, Bolligen, Taufrodel, 1615-1683, fol. 340, page 172 of pdf, FHL INTL Film 2005294, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog].

[2] Joanne Hess Siegrist, "Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites," Mennonite Family History 26 (2007), 6.

[3] John E. Engle and Eugene K Engle, "A Letter from Immigrant Ulrich Engle to Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (July, 1993), 11-18, at 16, person E15.

[4] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[5] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A.415, [Website].

[6] John E. Engle and Eugene K Engle, "A Letter from Immigrant Ulrich Engle to Switzerland," Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage 16 (July, 1993), 11-18, at 16.

[7] Joanne Hess Siegrist, "Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites," Mennonite Family History 26 (2007), 6.

[8] Second.wiki description of the Würzbrunnen Church. Content subject to change, [URL].

[9] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), K5-113, person 19, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[10] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), K5-122, person 7, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[11] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), K5-131, person 26, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[12] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), K5-141?, person 12, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[13] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), K5-154, person 2, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[14] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), K5-168, person 14, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[15] Kirchenbüch 5, Bern, Röthenbach im Emmental, Evangelisch-Reformierte: Taufrodel (1684-1728), Eherodel (1683-1743), Chorgerichtsmanual (1685-1744), K5-194, person 25, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog], [FHLCatalog].

[16] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A.415, [Website].

[17] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A.415, [Website].

[18] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A.415, [Website].

[19] Joanne Hess Siegrist, "Switzerland: Early Anabaptist Family Sites," Mennonite Family History 26 (2007), 6.

[20] Staatsarchivs des Kantons Bern, K Corgemont 1, Bolligen, Deces, 1797-1797, fol. 13, page 7 of pdf, [BernStateArchivesImage], [BernStateArchivesCatalog].

[21] Richard Warren Davis, Mennosearch.com Family Notes, Engel A.415, [Website].

[22] Geneanet Community Trees Index, [AncestryRecord].

[23] Geneanet Community Trees Index, [AncestryRecord].