BUER: Today and Yesterday .....plus links to America
last update: 19.02.2010

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Dedicated to the german and american descendants of the Buescher, Nienhueser (Niehaus) and (auf der) Masch families (as well as hundreds of other farmers who left the german village of BUER and its surrounding villages in the 19th century to emigrate to the U.S.A.)
(see list of 3,600 emigrants)

BUER 200 years ago: district Groenenberg, prince-bishopric Osnabrueck, Kingdom Hannover

BUER today: community Melle, district Osnabrueck, state Niedersachsen (Lower-Saxony) (see map of Germany)

Today's Photographs of Yesterday's traces: BUER : Aerial view BUER : Church St.Martini and old cemetery BUER : Church Square (village centre) BUER : Feme Linde BUER : Halbruegge Farm (oldest building) BUER : Poggemeyers Kotten BARKHAUSEN: Heller Farm and Watermill WETTER : Meyer Farm (old Amthof) WEHRINGDORF : Aschermann Farm WEHRINGDORF : Noelker Farm DUEINGDORF : view DUEINGDORF : village centre DUINGDORF : Schauf Farm SEHLINGDORF : view HUSTAEDTE : Siek Farm MARKENDORF : Wobker Farm (aerial view) MARKENDORF - Lammersbrink : Scholle Farm MEESDORF : Tractor Museum TITTINGDORF : Meyer Farm TITTINGDORF : Kuehmann Farm and Water Mill HOLZHAUSEN : view Hanover - Prussia Border: old boundary stone Interior of Heuerling Cottage ("Kotten")

Old Photographs and Paintings : BUER : Old Church (painting) BUER : Stegkaempers Kotten (painting) BUER in Winter (painting) BUER : view (photo c. 1885) BUER : street life (photo 1891) BUER : village centre BUER : old school (photo c. 1890) BUER : traditional costumes BUER : Wellmann Farm in flames WETTER : Old Meyerhof (or Amthof) MEESDORF : coach trip to Strunk bar MARKENDORF-Linken : Windmill BARKHAUSEN : Kohmoeller Farm Flax harvesting Heuerling Family Wooden Shoe Manufacturing (most pictures with kind permission of Buer Heimat- und Verschoenerungs-Verein) Text: HISTORY OF BUER

Historical Maps: Map of Buer area (1936) Historical MAP (1898): West of Buer (Sehlingdorf, Hustaedte, Holzhausen) Historical MAP (1849): East of Buer (Duingdorf, Wetter, Markendorf) Historical MAP (1790): Village Centre of Buer ( Du Plat )

Databases: Population statistics (by village) LIST of all FARMS 19th century (with Surnames and House Numbers) LIST of US emigrants 19th century

old documents regarding emigrants: Emigration Authorisation Buer Church Book Entry Passenger List: Bremen-Baltimore Census Records: Cincinnati, Ohio a better life...? Photo of Buer emigrant in Cincinnati ..a letter from America..... and from Buer

where did the Buer emigrants settle in the USA? Map of Main Settlements in the USA

<	Links: LINKS to US genealogy and family sites with Buer roots LINKS to Buer related german web sites

contact: dreuse@buer-us.de