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Gresten is clearly home of the
very first known Zellhofer's, and quite probably the surname originated
near Gresten, perhaps at a homestead named Zellhof. The very earliest information at hand
(and deduced!) takes us back into the
early 1500's. In those early days, they generally resided on farms
which were largely owned or dominated by their baron landlords. As
yet we have not researched actual land ownership there, so this
may be somewhat incorrect, but even if a man "owned" his land, he was
heavily obligated to a ruling land baron within whose domain that land
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Current Gresten Map. |
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This is a "new" picture postcard of the St Michael's
Lutheran/Evangelishe church in Gresten, built in 1482 and still in use after
over 5 centuries! This real treasure was received from Mani & Gini
Hertlein while they were visiting others from the Dietenhofen area of
Bavaria. Thomas Zellhofer was pastor of this church about 1635-1650, and
his family was among those exulanten to Bavaria by 1671. |
Gresten 1900 |
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Gresten 1930 |
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Schloss Stiebar 1672 |
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Schloss Stiebar 1910 |
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A farm near Gresten. Not sure, but this may be Planckenbichl. |
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Mani Hertlein of Weihenzell, Bavaria & Hans Zellhofer of Gresten
"wining" May 2004 at the annual get-together of folks with ties to
Dietenhofen Bavaria and Gresten. |
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Overview of Gresten. |
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View from the place near Gresten of the annual Dietenhofen/Gresten
reunion, May 2004. |
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