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Gassner in NurembergA foundrymen´s familyJohann Michael Gassner (Gaßner, Gahsner, Gaszner, Kassner) was born in May in the year 1854 in Schoellenbach, a small village in South-Hesse. Today the hamlet has 280 inhabitants and is part of the municipality Hesseneck near Eberbach, Odenwald.Proveably, since 1738 the male members of the family had found their occupation in the iron-metallurgy. They all were forgemen, hammersmiths, iron-melters or casters in the iron-mills of baron de Dietrich in the Reichshofen and Jaegerthal area in Alsace, France. So it was no surprise, when Johann Michael also became a founder. In the year 1881 in Wuerzburg, Frankonia, he married Auguste Regine Volk, daughter of the baker in Hofheim. Later on you will find Johann Michael in the 1885 directory of Nuremberg, Middle Frankonia. For readers who are interested in generally history: it is the same city where in 1945 Robert Jackson started the Nuremberg war criminal trial. It is also the city of Albrecht Duerer the famous painter, the famous Nuremberg ginger bread, the small grilled sausages and location of various industries. More than 25 years Johann Michael continually was employed in Kaspar Berg´s iron foundry in the St. Peter district, Nuremberg. He started as a caster but soon became foreman. His two sons, Edmund and Johann-Wilhelm Gassner finished their apprenticeship as iron-melters in the same factory. In 1910 the grandson of the foundry´s owner started as acting manager and Johann Michael had to leave the company. At the age of 56, he found a new employment as a foreman in the powder-mill of Amorbach, Odenwald, about 15 miles away from his birthplace. During the 19 th century an average family normaly had six to ten children. Nearly nothing is known about Johann Michaels brothers or sisters nor of his father´s brothers and sisters. There are circumstances that indicate in the years between 1830 and 1910 his relationship was still living in Neuhemsbach / Palatinate, Sennfeld near Mosbach / Baden, Hasloch / Spessart, Faulbach and Lohr located on the Main River, Wuerzburg and Schweinfurt / Frankonia. Their families did not live alone. As far as we know, they always lived and worked among relatives of theirs, as part of a kinsmanlike network. This is reason enough to ask: who had been the relatives going together with Johann Michael to Nuremberg helped him to succeed over there? In the municipal directories between 1885 and 1912 six different habitations of him (and his family) are printed. In reality there might be more changes of his residence, for there are years in the books of the office for registration of removals, where his name cannot be found. This could have been caused by the disastrous situation in lodgings and the housing shortage during those years of excessive industrial prosperity in Nuremberg. The Nuremberg directories have some additional inhabitants owning the surname Gassner also. They are the locksmith Johann Wilhelm Gassner, in the year 1881 the foreman Johann Gassner lodged in the “Lammsgasse”, the rolling mill train worker Hans Gassner and the cigar- and tobacco-trading woman Therese Gassner, just to name a few of them. Within the family it was also said by word of mouth, that “some have emigrated to America”. Where were the emigrants? Was their native place Lohr on the Main River or did they live in the suroundings of Nuremberg or Fuerth? In which period did they emigrate and where in the United States have they established themselfes? Ancestors of Johann Michael Gassner (Gahsner)are there more children?
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