Johannes Christoph Neuhardt

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lebt in Rumbach

BIOGRAPHY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harringtonfamilies/120c.htm
Christoph Neuhart (1599 - 1654), the son of Valentine and Barbara Nauert, brings yet another variant on the spelling of the Neuhart name. This spelling remains the current and most popular version. It was Christoph Neuhart who brought the Ostertag (Ostertag means Easter Day in English) name into our ancestral tree. He married Margaret Ostertag (abt 1605 - aft 1667) who was the daughter of Marzolph (Marx) Ostertag (abt 1560 - 1619). The Ostertag family will be discussed in more detail in the following pages.
Christoph and Margaret lived through and raised their family in a particularly difficult period. The religious upheavals of the mid-1500s had given birth to several protestant religions in opposition to the parent Catholic church. With the dawning of the new century, there were strong feelings that ranged from the belief that the Catholic church should be unified and restored as the only church in Europe, to, equally strong feelings that the Protestant reforms were the correct interpretation of the Christian faith. By the early 17th century these factions had crystalized their positions and had large followings that reached to high levels in the government. Some were willing to go to war to protect their beliefs.
While the Thirty-Year Wars that followed may have been originally justified by the participants on religious grounds, it soon became an opportunity to pursue economic and aggressive agendas. For example, Spain who held much of the territory which is now the Netherlands had long sought an overland route between her possessions in Italy and the Netherlands. The lands of our ancestors lay directly in their path.
In the end, the period between 1618 and 1648 saw several waves of armed forces sweep across Europe with devastating results. Villages and houses in the paths of these armies became the providers of food and supplies needed to keep the armies functional.
The problem was further exacerbated by the return of the bubonic plague in 1635/36. In this period the county of Wegelnburg lost over 75% of its population, 66% of the residences, 85% of the horses, 82% of the cattle, 83% of the goats and 100% of the sheep. Schoenau where the population was 102 persons in 1634 was reduce to 2 families. At least 62 people were buried in the wake of the Black Death in Rumbach during 1635/36. These burials were found in a concentrated area of the Rumbach cemetery just outside the main entry to the church during the 1957 renovation of the structure. During the hostilities, the Rumbach church was on the village side was hit by cannon fire about November 1635, but this was apparently repaired by 1638.
The population of the area around Rumbach remained very sparse for the next 50 years, with only 40 families in the County of Wegelnburg in 1676. Then, following the period of the Thirty-Year Wars, there were repeated "Wars of Reunion" which combined with plague and famine kept the population low.
Book: the book Neuhart Nobility. 3 All known Neuharts descend from a single patriarch, Christophel Neuhart (1599-1654), a resident of Rumbach, Germany. In 1626, he united with Margaret Ostertag (1605-1667), daughter of the village innkeeper, and granddaughter of the town mayor. It is through the Ostertag family that the Neuharts trace descent from royalty. This noble past is described in the 260 pages of Neuhart Nobility, second edition. Over 2,000 regal ancestors appear in this illustrated volume (double the number of forebears in the first edition). These progenitors are depicted on over 200 family charts.What Will You Find?You descend from community leaders, magistrates, and other prominent personages in Alsace-Lorraine, Germany and surrounding areas. Besides several medieval knights, various lords and earls, there are many counts, dukes, monarchs, even emperors among your kinship. You descend from portions of the royal houses of Germany, France, Russia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Italy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, and Austria. You are related by blood to Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, and to 16 U.S. presidents of royal descent: Washington, Jefferson, Monroe, Adams, Harrison, Buchanan, Lincoln, Grant, Garfield, T. Roosevelt, Taft, Nixon, Reagan, Kennedy and Bush, six first ladies, various reigning monarchs in Europe as well as personages of international acclaim.Seventeen professional researchers (from Germany, France, and the U.S.A.) were involved in this effort. Typed by Ethel C. Phillips and edited by Dennis A. Kastens, 1997, 260 pages. $35.00 (includes postage and handling). Index included.

Johannes married Margaretha Ostertag on 18 Jul 1627 in Nothweiler, Pfalz, Bayern. Margaretha (daughter of Marzolph Ostertag and Barbara Jost) was born in 1605 in Rumbach, Pfalz; died in in Rumbach, Pfalz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Nikolaus Neuhardt was born in 1629 in Rumbach, Pfalz; died in in Rumbach, Pfalz.
2. Johannes Christoph Neuhardt was born in 1631 in Rumbach, Pfalz; died in in Nothweiler, Pfalz.
3. Anna Barbara Neuhardt was born on 23 Apr 1633 in Rumbach, Pfalz; died in in Pirmasens, , Pfalz.

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BIOGRAPHY: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harringtonfamilies/120c.htm
In proportion to the vast amount of information that exists on the Neuhart family, the coverage of the Neuhart family here is very brief. Rev. Dennis A. Kastens has published a vast amount of information on this family. Rev. Kasten's mother was a Neuhart and he began researching the name in the early 1950s. At this time, he has published several books covering his research. Much of the material in this book draws from these resources.
There is some uncertainty regarding the precise lineage of Valentine Nauert (abt 1574 - 1636). He was possibly the son of Hans Knauwert (abt 1548 - 1608) in Dahn and the grandson of Fredrich Knauwart (abt 1518 - bef 1589) in Dahn. Another possibility is that a N.N. Knauwert resided in Niederschlettenbach and that Valentine was his son, because descendants paid 1644 and 1666 property tax to Bobenthal Authorities. Regardless of the uncertainty of Valentine's ancestors, he is clearly in our ancestral line. It is only his predecessors who are uncertain.
Valentine Nauert (abt 1574 - 1636) moved to Nothweiler upon marriage to his first wife, Barbara (? - aft 1609) who was a native of that village. She was likely a member of our Wagner family, as we have discussed above, but that linkage has not yet been made. Valentine Nauert was a subsistence farmer. He also worked as a teamster for the Schoenau iron works and likely drove ox carts from the ore mines to the smelter which had been reactivated in 1592. Valentine had come from a devout home and became a church elder at a young age, filling the term of another elder whose position was vacated by death in 1605. This meant that Valentine served the Nothweiler church for the next 31 years in that capacity. From 1621 until the time of his death in 1636, he was also the village Mayor of Nothweiler. Valentine adopted a nephew, Michael Neuhart into his household by 1609 and served as security for a loan in 1627 which Michael took out as a Rumbach blacksmith. Valentine's first wife, Bargara Wagner (? - aft 1609), was the mother of their son Christoph Neuhart (1599 - 1654). Barbara died sometime after 1609. Valentine married a second time to Margaret (1572)? who also died in1636. The years 1635-1636 saw the return of one of the deadly sieges of bubonic plague that nearly devastated Rumbach population. While we can not be sure, it is likely that both Valentine and his second wife, Margaret, were victims of the plague.

Valentin married Barbara Wagner about 1598 in Nothweiler, Pfalz. Barbara (daughter of Philipp Wagner and Barbara) was born in 1576 in Nothweiler, Pfalz; died in in Nothweiler, Pfalz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Johannes married Unknown Unknown. Unknown was born in 1548. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Philipp married Barbara about 1573 in Nothweiler, Pfalz, Bayern. Barbara was born in 1550 in Nothweiler, Pfalz; died in 0Nov 1609 in Nothweiler, Pfalz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Friedrich married Unknown Unknown. Unknown was born in 1520. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jost married Unknown Unknown about 1539 in Nothweiler, Pfalz, Bayern. Unknown was born in 1517 in Nothweiler, Pfalz; died in in Nothweiler, Pfalz. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"eine Witwe"