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Heerstraße 123 Sankt Goar
A three-storey half-timbered house with a gable end and a steep gabled roof, dating from between 1542 and 1552. Solid ground floor, presumably remodelled in 1682 by the hospital warden Johann Henrich Maul.

• Johan Henrich Maul (also Johan Heinrich)

• Son: Luther Daniel Maul - Hospital-Meister

• Historical significance: Miraculously, the building survived the massive destruction wrought by French troops in St. Goar in 1688 during the Nine Years’ War. The building still stands today and is officially known as the Haus Maul.

A scan of the baptism record of Johann Daniel, (*) 14 October 1704, Sankt Goar
With thanks to Ms Nagel. Moderator of the Archion Forum

1704, 
"Den 14 8br [Oktober] des Abends um 9 Uhr ist im Hauß ge-
taufft worden, Johann Daniel, Herrn Georg
Ludwig Dülckens, Söhnlein. Gevatter ist gewesen
Herr Luther Daniel Maul, Hospital-Meister.
Ist im Noth-Fall geschehen, dann das Kindlein
sehr schwach gewesen, wie die Amme sagte.
Sind des Tags vorher copuliret worden
zu Weissel. Das Kind ist in der
Woch gestorben und
ohne Pomp be-
graben".

1704,
"On the evening of the 14th of October at 9 o'clock, Johann Daniel, the son of Mr Georg
Ludwig Dülcken, was baptised in the house. The godfather was
Mr Luther Daniel Maul, the hospital master.
This took place in an emergency, as the child
was very weak, as the wet nurse said.
They were married the day before
in Weissel.

The child died within the
week and
was buried without
ceremony".

The earliest known marriage of Georg Ludwig Dülcken presents an unusual archival problem.
A baptismal entry dated 14 October 1704 records that Georg Ludwig and his wife had been married "the day before" in Weissel. Yet the marriage register that should contain this entry no longer survives in complete form.

• Marriage in Weisel (October 13, 1704): Georg Ludwig Dülcken and his heavily pregnant bride marry in Weisel. The marriage is blessed by the local minister, Pastor Johann Jakob Schramm. The young couple stays at his rectory. This is a familiar and safe haven due to Anna Catharina Lehr, the pastor's wife and the biological aunt of the father, Georg Ludwig Dülcken.

• Birth in Weisel (October 14, 1704): The heavily pregnant woman gives birth in the rectory of Pastor Johann Jakob Schramm and his wife Anna Catharina Lehr (the biological aunt of the father, Georg Ludwig Dülcken). The journey over the steep slopes to the Rhine was physically impossible for a woman in labor, meaning the child was definitively born in Weisel.

• The Emergency Journey: Because the infant is extremely weak ("äußerst schwach") and in acute danger of losing his life, the baby is brought to the Rhine with the utmost urgency immediately after birth and is crossed over to Sankt Goar by boat to seek medical assistance.

• Emergency Baptism in Sankt Goar: Immediately upon arrival on the opposite side of the Rhine, the situation is so critical that the baby is brought straight to the first safe refuge. The emergency baptism is performed in the house of Hospitalmeister Luther Daniel Maul in Sankt Goar

• The register concludes with a brief but significant note:

• ‘The child died during the week and was buried without ceremony.’

• This statement leaves little doubt that the child survived for only a few days..

The relevant portion of the Weisel marriage book covering the years 1689–1710 is missing. The absence of these pages appears to be longstanding, and no contemporary explanation for their loss has been identified.
Consequently, the baptismal entry of October 1704 constitutes the earliest surviving documentary evidence for the marriage.

Reformierte/Evangelische Pfarrer WEISEL - periode 1679-1719 JOHANN JAKOB SCHRAMM aus Berlenburg

Schramm, Johann Heinrich, der Heiligen Schrifft Doctor. In: Johann Heinrich Zedler: Grosses vollständiges Universal-Lexicon Aller Wissenschafften und Künste. Band 35, Leipzig 1743, Sp. 1086–1092.

Schramm, (Johann Jacob), preacher in Weisel in the district of Bacharach, was born on March 9, 1645, in Berleburg. His father was Johann Schramm, former mayor and magistrate there. He studied in Herborn, Marburg, and Heidelberg, and after returning from university, he was appointed by the then-reigning Count George of Wittgenstein-Berleburg to tutor his heir, Ludwig Franz. He performed this duty to the satisfaction of his lordship for some time, after which he was promoted to preacher in Girkhausen, a place in the county of Berleburg formerly well-known under the papacy for a great pilgrimage. From there, in the year 1679, he received a call to the aforementioned Weisel from the Palatine Church Council, following a nomination by his former teacher, the famous first member of said council, Dr. and Prof. Johann Ludewig Fabricius.
He presided over this congregation for 50 years with exceptional diligence, loyalty, and true godliness, turning down several other pastoral positions offered to him. In his final years, he was joined by his son, Johann Philipp, who took over the office after him but did not survive his father by very long. Our Johann Jacob Schramm also made it his business in his ministry to serve the studying youth with his instruction; consequently, he had the children of many prominent people in his house. He spent 55 years in the ministry and lived to be nearly 85 years old. It is remarkable that he also completed 50 years of marriage with Anna Catharina Lehr, daughter of Andreas Lehr, former rentmaster and mayor of the already mentioned Berleburg. She bore him 8 children, namely 6 sons and 2 daughters, of whom—besides Johann Heinrich, mentioned above in a special article—two sons are still living


Ursprünglicher Bewohner von Ludwigsburg (ab 1724): Graf Ludwig Franz (1694–1750), nach dem der Komplex schließlich auch benannt wurde.
The original resident of Ludwigsburg (from 1724): Count Ludwig Franz (1694–1750), after whom the complex was eventually named.

VIDEO Erbauet hat mich Graf Casimir Eintausend Siebenhundert Zwanzig Vier - Ludwigsburg - MANNUS RIEDESEL
Count Casimir had this built in the year one thousand seven hundred and twenty-four – Ludwigsburg – MANNUS RIEDESEL

Heerstraße 123 Sankt Goar

A three-storey half-timbered house with a gable end and a steep gabled roof, dating from between 1542 and 1552. Solid ground floor, presumably remodelled in 1682 by the hospital warden Johann Henrich Maul; around 1900, the ground floor was extended to incorporate a shop, protruding to the road line of Heerstraße, with a balcony above featuring wrought-iron balustrades. Exposed half-timbering, moulded sills, crossed struts at the corner posts, and in the gable end, arched St Andrew’s crosses beneath rectangular windows.
A projecting gable and a hipped gable top. Considered one of the oldest residential buildings in St. Goar, this structure, with its design that characterises the streetscape, exemplifies the regional style of the Middle Rhine half-timbered house and bears testimony to the historic 16th-century built environment in a particularly sophisticated execution that shapes the character of the townscape.


* Nachqualifizierung der Denkmalzone „Kernstadt St. Goar“ Landkreis Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (PGIS-ID: 8500)

Particularly informative are the confirmation records maintained by Inspector Scheffer after 1702. Scheffer retrospectively entered confirmation dates into earlier baptismal registers and simultaneously established separate confirmation registers. These records reveal that confirmation frequently occurred at ages considerably older than those common today.
Among the fourteen confirmands recorded in 1703, ages ranged from fourteen to nineteen years. Georg Ludwig Dülcken himself was confirmed at the age of seventeen.
The evidence suggests that delayed confirmation represented normal ecclesiastical practice within the region rather than educational deficiency.