A half-timbered house in Ladenburg in the south west of Germany was the birthplace of Johann Christoph Sauer.
The plaque on the house is in German, Pennsylvania Dutch and English explaining about Johann Sauer.
Sauer was a Pennsylvania-German printer who in 1743 printed the first German bible in America known as the “Sauer Bible”.
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Who the hell is Johann Christoph Sauer?
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It’s on the plaque. Try to double click and read the text – I like the Pennsylvania Dutch version 😊 – he was a printer and printed the first German bible in the US.
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Thank you for the fine window photos and especially the plaque. A Rosetta stone of sorts. The Pennsylvania Dutch is very much like the dialect that I grow up with. The language is still alive and well in Ohio, and I expect in Pennsylvania as well. My brother tells me that he can chat with folks there in our Donau-Schwaben dialect without any difficulties at all. All the best!
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In that case, I should talk/write dialect with you. I hail from the Kurpfalz, – politically oart of Baden-Württemberg, geographically part of Hesse, and linguistically related to the Palatium. Un sou winsch isch der und doinere Familie e scheenes Woihnachtsfescht!
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Somewhere I missed learning to write and read in dialect. When I started in school it was Hochdeutsch only. That was in a small village halfway down the Danube. Same in Germany after the war. No problem reading your message. My ancestors came from that region as well. Can’t pinpoint my paternal origin, maternally we go back to Altenglan, Rheinland-Pfalz. So we are neighbors if not relatives! Frohe Weihnachten!
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Altenglan!! I know 3 Americans who live there, and quite a few in the vicinity. A great bunch, real maniacs. And my husband is from that corner of Germany. 🙂
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