Saturday

We headed north to Stuttgart. Stuttgart is the common assumed place where Peter Steimle settled after fighting in the Franco-Prussian war. Wherever he settled was where he studied to become a Baptist minister, met Caroline at the Baptist church and was married by the Baptist minister. Here they probably raised their family and met Mormon missionaries. Research has found that there was only one very small Baptist group in Stuttgart in the village of Feuerbach. It was a small group which met in private homes at first. At some point in about the 1880’s they were large enough to rent a room in the building on Stuttgarter Strasse 60 shown below.

As Peter worked as a stone mason at this time we found in the history of the town that there was a large stone quarry about a mile from the city center. It is now a very large city park.

We then went further north to Neckargroeningen. My records show at least 40 ancestors being born, christened, married or buried here. Probably the most important was Johann Christian Meier, the father of Caroline Merkenthaler Meier wife to Peter Steimle. Here is the school and music academy used at the time.

Lunch at McD. We needed to stretch so did not use the McDrive.

With no speed limits even on some country roads, we found this sign of interest. Trucks were limited to 100 Km/H and tanks at 80Km/H going over a bridge.

Some city roads just cannot be widened.

Almost every city has a sign announcing the Sunday services for major faiths. Each faith also has a designated color to make it easy. This was unusual because most cities are divided here either Lutheran or Catholic. Here we have 3 different protestant churches only.