Burg Hohenschramberg was built in 1457 to 1459 by Hans von Rechberg the forefather of the Schramberg family. The castle was built on the remains of the ruins of an earlier castle. It was built to withstand the fireweapons that were used at that time. During the next two hundred years the castle walls were reinforced several times. Despite all this, Konrad Wiederhold, the famous trial lawyer of Hohentwiel was able to capture the castle during the 20 year war. In 1648, the last additions were built by Hans Fredrich von Bissingen. During the Louis XIV war against Germany, the castle was destroyed on January 10, 1689. The remains, even though heavily damaged is the Kaeferlesturn (Tower) in the northwest, the fort (Wehrburg) and the two half round towers and the outside walls of the palace. Take note of the Family crest with the inscription 1499 of the von Rechberg Aristocracy above the northerly entrance to the fort (Wehrberg). The walls around the fort are 6 meters thick in several places and it contains many openings that were used to shoot through during the wars. The inscription above the southerly entrance to the fort tells of a fire in 1498 and the rebuilding.
The ruins is taken care of by the city of Schramberg and the "Burgpioniere" an organization of citizens of Schramberg. They donate their time without compensation with only the thanks of the citizens.

This sign is in front of the castle

Tower

Castle Walls

The next day the Gazette revealed the horrible story of this voyage: "The Captain, both mates, and 160 passengers died at sea. The ship's carpenter, William Patton, brought the ravaged vessel up the Delaware". Patton listed 74 men, 47 women as the remaining (surviving) passengers. No children were listed. Only 40 of the men were well enough to come to the courthouse to be signed in and to take oaths of allegiance. Jacob and his son Georg were 2 of the 40. [The carpenter, Patton, may have been too busy to notice that Jacob and Anna Maria's other children, at least the sons Nickel (Nicholas), and Theobaldt (David) had survived the voyage to America].
In Anna Maria's 1754 will she names her heirs as Georg, David, Nicholas, and the youngest Johannes who was born in America. None of the other children born in Europe are mentioned.

Jacob and Anna Maria settled near York, Pa. where Jacob died in 1748. Anna Maria died near there in 1754. They have markers at the Prospect Hill Cemetery, York, Pa. where it is believed that they have been buried.
Their children carried on as follows:

Georg married Elisabetha REIFF in 1748 and remained in York, at his Longridge estate in Manchester Twp.until his demise in 1772.

Nicholas married Anna Katherine KOENER in 1748. He left Pennsylvania via the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia about 1763 and settled in Lincoln County, North Carolina. He married Margaret HELMIC about 1770.

David married Elisabeth BRYANT in 1745 in Deptford, New Jersey. After the Revolutionary War this family is found in Virginia, in the Shenandoah Valley, where he died about 1788.

Johannes born in 1740 in York County, Pennsylvania was married to Eva Margaretha CHERDRON about 1760 in York Co. They migrated westward to Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, and he died there in 1818
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