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Burladingen, Germany - Anyone want to go visit a whip museum with me?




Burladingen, Zollernalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany





Upon discovery that my great-grandfather was from Burladingen, Germany and realizing I had never even heard of that, I wanted to see what I could find about this town.  It is situated south of Stuttgart, in the southwestern part of Germany, near the borders of France and Switzerland.











I was even more intrigued about the town when I discovered a photo in Mary Ann's collection of people standing outside of a home and it is labeled on the back as 'Engelbert Mautz ancestral home still standing in Burladingen'. Now I don't know when this note was written on the photo, so not sure if it is indeed still standing. There is no street address provided so no help from google maps, unfortunately! If I knew it was still there, I might be compelled to travel there some day.






If visiting an ancestral home isn't enough of a reason to travel to Burladingen, then maybe the only whip museum in all of Germany may be a fascinating enough reason!  Only whip museum in the entire country? Where are all these other whip museums? When I first saw whip museum, I thought it was the result of a bad translation from German to English or maybe it means something other than what I was picturing in my head.  But nope - they are referring to actual whips.



There are quite a few castle ruins in Burladingen that you can hike to. Now that is right up my alley!  Anyone wanna go? Maybe we will stumble across my ancestral home while we're there.  https://www.mygermancity.com/burladingen


Sources:  Wikipedia, mygermancity.com, googlemaps.com

Comments

  1. SuzanneOctober 11, 2019 at 4:53 PM

    I will go!

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  2. KMauzFebruary 18, 2020 at 9:03 AM

    Thanks so much for your blog. On this page, I have a couple of historical comments to add.

    Anna Mauz Mautz (Engelbert's wife) had a younger sister, Walburga, who married Joseph Ritter. Our family notes, as told by one of their daughter's in 1957, say that Joseph made wooden tools and buggy whips in Burladingen. Would be so interesting if he is represented in the museum! (And to find out why whips were such a specialty there...)

    Also, I have a note to add about the photo of the old house. On the back, the caption is "Engelbert Mautz ancestral home" with "Mrs. Anna" written in pencil at the beginning. My great-grandfather, Kilian Mauz, was a younger brother of Anna's, and the house in the photo is Anna's and Kilian's parents' home. In 1957, Kilian's son (my grandfather) and his sister, who had been born in Burladingen, visited there and met relatives who were still living in the house. We have a photo from 1907 of the whole extended Mauz family in front of the house, and also a photo from 1957 showing almost the exact view as your photo (though the multi-pane windows had been replaced and the shutters removed). The Sun Prairie Historical Society has an album I made of our branch that has these photos in it, entitled "The Mauz family of Burladingen, Germany, & Kilian in America".

    I would also love to go to Burladingen someday to hunt down family places!

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  3. Staci WillemsFebruary 21, 2020 at 9:50 AM

    Thank you so, so much for this additional information. I plan to look for your album at the SP Historical Society. I also plan to donate some additional things to the SP museum. I would like them to preserve some of the history of East Bristol. I do know that I have some photos of Kilian in the many boxes of photos - out in Colorado I believe. I was able to figure out with some research that he was Anna's brother, but it was a little challenging at first figuring out who belonged to what side of the family since they had the same last name....Mauz....and still not sure what point it was changed to Mautz.

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