The journey from Huckeswagen to Frauenstein was via cousin Sue's car by way of Koln Cathedral, then along the rhine R. via Koblenz for lunch, Rudesheim for afternoon tea and Frauenstein as darkness came. Along the way we viewed a number of castles perched on high points. As we noticed in Dusseldorf so all along the Rhine R. traffic is heavy - oil and other cargo transportation as well as pleasure boats and tour boats. We were in Wiesbaden on the trail of Terry's paternal Grandmother Theresa Wagner whose family emigrated from Dotzheim, Wiesbaden to Tasmania in the 1850's. Dotzheim is a little north west of Dotzheim and Wiesbaden in the hills where it was suggested the heat would be a little less - it was. Theresa came to NZ in 1915 and married grandfather Henry Alve in 1917 before living on the family farm at Rangitane in the Manawatu. We stayed at Herberge Hof Armada which is essentially a horse ranch with cattle, sheep, chooks and roosters to boot. People leave their horses to graze here and come here to ride. The complex has developed an accommodation wing where we stayed offering bed & breakfast. An uphill walk from the rural setting here took us into the Frauenstein village where we caught a bus to and fro Dotzheim and Wiesbaden on Friday, visited the local graveyard and had a meal at the hotel Sinz. Terry had a couple of walks into the surrounding woods also. On the Saturday Hof Armada hosted a festival afternoon which we joined in. Later on the Saturday we attended the last of the summer musical concerts held in the nearby Eberbach Monastery with Sue and Linda and about 1,000 others. This followed a lovely outdoor evening meal in the grounds with Sue and Linda.
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AuthorMargaret & Terry Alve live in Tawa, NZ. Between them they are linked to several families from the UK and Germany who emigrated to Tasmania and Aotearoa-New Zealand between 1850 and 1925. Archives
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