Origin of today’s main Hutsteiner farms

Origin of today’s main Hutsteiner farms

Kollerschlag

According to some family legend two brothers, Tobias and Simon Hutsteiner, had been the founders of the farms in Kollerschlag.

Mistlberg

Thomas Hutsteiner born 1686 in Kollerschlag was the founder of the well known farm in Mistlberg.

Aiglsöd

Likely Thomas Hutsteiner, the first Hutsteiner owner of this farm, was a son of Leonhard Hutsteiner in Grettenbach. According the Urbar of Wegscheid 1656-1680 Leonhard Hutsteiner from Grenpach [Grettenbach] paid taxes for a certain field. He was later replaced by Thomas Hutsteiner in Aiglsed. Usually this points to a father – son relation, less to a younger brother.

from Urbar Wegscheid 1655 ff

 

Niederwegscheid

Martin and Coloman Hutsteiner, owners of two farms in the village of Niederwegscheid, had been brothers according to Wegscheid court records. Father had been Michael Hutsteiner from Hutstein in Upper Austria who was the first on one of the farms there. Michael, whose surname had been Stölzl, took over the farm of Johann Grubauer Niederwegscheid, while Grubauer Paul took over the Rannariedl’s Hutstein farm around 1630. Perhaps Paul Grubauer was a son of Johann in Niederwegscheid and married a Hutsteiner daughter ? Anyhow it seems that there were some family relations between Grubauer and Hutsteiner.

from Urbar Wegscheid 1635 ff

 

Kasberg

Simon Hutsteiner showed up in Kasberg between 1644 and 1645 with still unknown origin. He was the first Hutsteiner in Kasberg. He was followed by his son Julius.

 

 

I.6 Migrations

I.6 Migrations

Following figures show main migration paths of Hutsteiner families from and within the three main Hutsteiner family regions in Germany.

Bavarians/Austrians

The Bavarian/Austrian Hutsteiner migrated mainly in Lower Bavaria, e.g. to Passau, Schönberg and Uttigkofen, and Upper Austria, mainly to the capitol Linz and surrounding and Steyr. Some descendants moved to capitol of Bavaria, Munich. One family settled in Villingen (Baden-Württemberg). Some families also emigrated to the US, another one to Budweis, Czech republic.

Main movements of Bavarian/Austrian Hutsteiner families


Saxonians

The Saxonian Hutsteiner migrated to Borna, close to Leipzig, Dresden and one family was recorded in Breslau (Silesia, Poland) and another one went to Warsaw, Poland, as a head of the Saxonian army there.

Only one family emigrated to the US.

Main movements of Saxonian Hutsteiner families

 

Westphalians/Hesse

The Westphalian Hutsteiner families moved within Westphalia and Hesse-Nassau, e.g. Dillenburg, Siegen, Giessen and Wiesbaden. One family was forced to move to Erfurt, Thuringia. 
Several other families emigrated to the US, where several descendants of them live nowadays. One family moved to France during the Napoleonic time. One individual emigrated to Australia and one founded a larger family in Bristol, UK.

Following figures show speculative migration path of a certain Hutsteiner family between the main occurrence regions.

Main movements of Hessian Hutsteiner families

 

Two migration hypotheses

There are actually two hypotheses for the migration of Hutstein families between the three major occurrence regions

The first one is the exulant path from Austria, i.e. a Hutsteiner exulant moved to Hartmannsdorf, Saxony, settled there, and his great-grandson moved to Dillenburg. 

A path from Austria to Saxony to Hesse-Nassau

The second one describes the path and rising of the catholic families in the Rheingau/Hesse-Nassau Hutsteiner who moved from Budweis, Czechia,  around 1670 to Marthinsthal in the Rheingau.

 

catholic migration to the Rheingau / Hessen-Nassau

I.6.2 Ellis Island immigration

I.6.2 Ellis Island immigration

Georg Friedrich Eduard Huthsteiner had been the first of the Westphalian families to emigrate to the US. It is unclear when exactly he reached the US, but in the records of New York a Hutsteiner, who does match his age, was recorded who arrived on 6th of November 1848 with the vessel SS Washington. His wife Caroline, together with her sons Gustav and Heinrich, daughter Lina and baby Amelia, who was born on the sea while travelling, arrived with the ship Monterey on 27th of September 1848 and was recorded on Ellis Island. I.e. Edward’s family arrived more than a month earlier. Quite uncommon.

Ellis Island

Ernst Emil Friedrich Carl Huthsteiner emigrated via Ellis Island to the US in 1876 by a ship called “Goethe”

Wilhelm ‘William’ Hutstein immigrated in 1851 onboard the ‘A Becboudson’, followed by his wife and daughte Emma. Obviously William died onboad another vessel in 1888.

In 1907 Hutsteiner Catharina and her sister Paulina emigrated to the US. They arrived on Ellis Island after crossing the Atlantic onboard the ship Majestic.

Majestic

A member of the jewish Hutstein families, Michael ‘Mechal’ Hutstein immigrated in 1898 onboard the ship ‘Weimar’ coming from Bremen.

Weimar

Hutsteiner ‘Hans’ Johann came to Ellis Island together with his wife Anna, daughter Johanna and Marie and his son Johann in 1927 onboard of the ship ‘Stuttgart’.

Stuttgart

Hutsteiner Joseph immigrated onboard the Sierra Ventana with his wife Georgina and son Joseph.

Sierra Ventana

Friedrich Hutsteiner immigrated onboard the ‘Dresden’ in 1929.

SS Dresden

I.6.3 Did they meet again ?

I.6.3 Did they meet again ?

No. But it is an amazing matter that members of our major family lines visited the same or close by locations far away from their origin or even met there. Needless to emphasize, that this happened during a time when there was no car and no airplane available. Mainly they reached their destinations by feet and there was no google to search for one’s family. So it was pure coincidence.

In lower Bavaria 

First, there was Martin Hutsteiner from Eberhardsreuth who stayed close to Osterhofen in Lower Bavaria in 1799. Then, in 1809 Col. Heinrich Christian Huthsteiner from Saxony marched with Napoleon’s army on the way to Austria through Osterhofen, too. And beginning of the 20th century Rudolph Huthsteiner from Düsseldorf stayed there at the local abbey and made a painting of its interior.   

rally point: from all major family lines members passed Osterhofen
In the US

Eugene Gustave Huthsteiner from Tell city was heavily surprised when he got to know that there was a Louisa Huthsteiner living in New Jersey. He immediately tried to set up communication to clarify any relationship between each other.

Surprise | HUTSTEIN Origins

meeting in New Jersey
In Hesse

And finally Carl Hutsteiner from Budweis, Kingdom of Bohemia, came to Hesse-Nassau already in the 1670s, while Michael Hutsteiner reached it in approximately 1734. For several decades their direct descendants lived next door within a distance of a few kilometres only.

immigration rally point Hesse