When I raved about the goldsmith at Strasbourg, Franz Bolion von der Rosen, I only briefly stopped for his son who moved to Winterburg in the Hunsrück for reasons unknown and left lots of descendants there. I won't go as far as listing them, but as I'm obsessing about Lutheran clergymen in my family tree at the moment, I will be exploring those lineages where I discovered some of them.
So starting from our immigrant from Strasbourg:
Johann Konrad von der Rosen, born Strasbourg 1599, came to Winterburg before 1627. Note that this was the time of the Thirty Years' War, so this may have been a life-saving rather than a career move. Winterburg was then the administrative centre (Amt) ruling over nearby villages such as Eckweiler and Gebroth, one of five or so districts in the tiny and fragmented microstate Hintere Grafschaft Sponheim (Upper County of Sponheim). It is situated by the Ellerbach creek, which also flows through Gebroth and joins the river Nahe at Kreuznach. He kept an inn at Winterburg and seems to have been successful in his business (as well as successfully surviving in dangerous times). He married four times (the most complete list of wives and children I found online is here).
Winterburg: The former town hall built on top of the ruins of the former castle. Now a hostel for school groups (Schullandheim Winterburg). Source: Wikipedia.
First time in 1627, the wife's name is unknown, and she appears to have died in giving birth to their son Hans Samson von der Rosen in December 1627. Conceivably, she could have been the daughter of the previous inn keepers?
Second time in August 1628, with Elisabeth Nesselius, importantly the daughter of the local vicar Georg Christian Nesselius (vicar of Winterburg until at least 1622 but not sure if he was still alive in 1628), and granddaughter of vicar and inspector Johann Conon (see their CVs here). Note also the amusing botanical combination of Nessel (nettle) and Rose in this marriage (and the next one). They had four children together, including my ancestor Maria Ottilia von der Rosen, who went on to marry Franz Nickel Andreae in Winterburg in 1654. He was not a clergyman himself but the son of the vicar of Gebroth Nikolaus Andreae. I'm assuming that all Andrae people in Gebroth descend from this couple, including the lineage leading to my ancestor Catharina Elisabeth Andrae, as listed here. So far I don't know what became of the other three children of this marriage, two girls and a boy.
Elisabeth Nesselius died in 1635.
By December of the same year, Johann Conrad had married Elisabeth's sister Ursula Nesselius, so we're looking at another wife from a Lutheran clergy family, and funnily enough, lots of priests pop up among their descendants - mostly under the name of Roos rather than von der Rosen. And two of them presided over the parish of Gebroth for decades, looking after the family events of their Andrae cousins. Sadly the church books documenting these proceedings are lost. I'm also not sure where their previous placements were.
It is already an achievement that Johann Conrad survived, found wives and raised all these kids with the Thirty Years' War raging and death and devastation all around them. The Amt (district) Winterburg was particularly hard hit, with several villages (Rehbach, Allenfeld, Daubach) remaining uninhabited for more than a decade after they were destroyed.
Hans Conrad Roos, the first one of the four sons we know from this third marriage, was born at Winterburg in 1641. He married Anna Christina Maul in 1664. Their daughter Philippine Roos married Johann Caspar Hargart in Winterburgh in 1700 and had at least six children.
Hans Conrad was the vicar of Gebroth from 1693 until his death in 1711.
The second son of the innkeeper's third marriage was Johann Paul Roos born 1644. He was a Gerichtsschöffe (juryman). He married Gertrud Schmidt in 1666 and they had 11 children including
Johann Friedrich Roos, born 1675, who became the vicar of Gebroth (perhaps as the direct successor of his uncle?) and stayed in the post until his death in 1737. I believe that previously he had held a position of Diakon in Winterburg since 1698, but that is from a mention of the surname only, so it may have been a different member of the Roos clan whose church career I haven't discovered yet.
Noteworthy is also Friedrich's younger brother Johann Burghard Roos, born 1686, who was a tax collector and the father of the court official Philipp Caspar Roos (1717-1805), who has a lengthy Wikipedia entry and an equally prominent son.
Friedrich's older brother, Johann Conrad Roos, born 1667, is the maternal grandfather of the poet Johann Nikolaus Götz (1721-1781) who, again, has lots of lutheran priests in his published family tree.
Friedrich married Maria Elisabeth Hargart (note there was another Roos-Hargart marriage above!) at Winterburg in 1700. They had eight children.
Their son Johann Adolph Roos, born in 1712 wanted to succeed his father in the position in Gebroth, but was rejected and had to take a position as Diakon in Traben instead. He married Justina Maria Kröber at Traben in 1740. She was the daughter of Johann Georg Kröber, the vicar of Bell from 1712 to 1743.
In the 19th century, Christian Roos, a descendant of the Winterburg Roos clan became the mayor of Krefeld, but I don't know where he should be attached.
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