German SIG #Germany Re: **Knisbach** place name in Homburg district #germany
Jan Bousse <janbousse@...>
Hello Jeffrey,
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A place called Knisbach does not appear in a very detailed map of Germany. Your source mentions it in the district of Homburg. The event occurred in 1904. Homburg is now in Saarland, in the Wikipedia article in German on Homburg there is no mention of Knisbach. I found the mention of Knisbach in two similar articles, one of them is: https://books.google.be/books?id=lnTqMuF8uuMC&pg=PA234&lpg=PA234&dq=knisbach&source=bl&ots=ockjwYRW22&sig=KJ4zaV6M_v9wx7mAth2RY9UgL2Q&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=4IIrVYC6Eq-07Qbm_oCgBg&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=knisbach&f=false "15 Eskadrons in Knisbach, Ramstein, Hauptstuhl, Neubau". I believe most of these places are now in Rheinland-Pfalz. I suppose the archives in one of these localities or in Homburg, or perhaps Saarland or Rheinland-Pfalz, could tell you where it was, when it disappeared as a separate location, what its history and its Jewish community represented. I wish you success. Jan Bousse, Oostende, Belgium, janbousse@skynet.be Jeffrey Knisbacher <j2456@verizon.net> asked about **Knisbach**, a place name in Homburg district ....... But the main thing is he was
born in KNISBACH in the Homburg Kreis. Checking on the Web today I find
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