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Could someone please tell me what is in the 3rd block of record 187 Friedrich Wilhelm Christian Petersen. It looks like Maler and ? N. 416 Thank you!
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Hello @T.Kobus,
The column heading translates as: Status, character, previous place of residence, religion.
What is written in the 3rd cell:
Maler = painter.
ev. = Evangelical (Protestant).
Seelenbau = probably a street name or name of a section of the city/town.
no. 416 = specific location within Seelenbau.
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@Robert Seal_1 Thank you!
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You're very welcome, @T.Kobus.
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Looking through these records, many of the deaths list the place of residence as one of several hospitals. One was a leprosy hospital. Several of the locations were names ending in -bau, as in building. In this case, Seelen = souls building. It would appear to me that there were hospitals and probably homes for the poor and aged surrounding the church. In that case, Seelenbau may have been a home for the aged sponsored by the church. I found that case before in a German city.
Several other entries I found with Seelenbau include D. 416. It is possible that the A. and D. refer to familiar street names near the church and hospitals. The church sits on the banks of the Danube. Today the street along the Danube is Adlerbastei (=A. ?). An adjacent street with a bridge across the Danube is Donaustrasse (=D. ?). It is possible that Seelenbau could have been a building at 416 Donaustrasse, adjacent to the church. Other entries name an actual street (e.g. Olgastrasse).
See a Google map view of the area. Search Google maps with the term "Donaustrasse 5, 89073 Ulm, Germany".
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@bobgreiner1 Thank you for that additional research. I will check out Google maps!
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Hi @T.Kobus
The Seelenbau has actually been the part of a hospital, some of whose buildings are still standing today (according to Google). There the poor souls (Seelen) were taken care of. It must have stood near today's street Seelengasse. The designation A and D are not abbreviations, but designations for the city districts. So D is the fourth district. Unfortunately, I have not found a freely available historical map of the city. But there are historical address books on the Internet. Unfortunately there is only one from the year 1868 and there is no Petersen listed. https://www.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/view/bsb10370021?page=100,101&q=seelenbau
I hope I could help.
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Thank you @B.Dahne for the clarification. I see now, and from some of the documents below, that in the early 1800s Ulm was divided into four sections. Within each section the buildings were numbered. This numbering was maintained until 1869 when modern street names were assigned. See the first document below, which contains an explanation of the changes and a table of street names and addresses.
Here are some more resources that you might find interesting. You can use Google Chrome or Google Translate to view the documents in English.
- This is a table of changing street names in Ulm from 1800 to 1894.
2 Click on the map to the right to expand it to full screen, then zoom in
3 1808 map of Ulm
4 See this 1895 map. In square D3 of the map is the number 3. To the right of that is Bauerng.[asse], which may be the location of Seelenbau. You can right click on the image and save the map as a JPEG file. Then open it and zoom in.
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@B.Dahne & @bobgreiner1 Thank you so much! Sorry its taken me so long to respond, I had my wisdom teeth removed Thursday. I will study this next week when I can think again. 🙂
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