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- Still, with more than one of every four local residents claiming German heritage, Cincinnati is a very German place, which helps explain why our Oktoberfest (put on by the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber) is the biggest in North America.
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Sep 20, 2018 · Still, with more than one of every four local residents claiming German heritage, Cincinnati is a very German place, which helps explain why our Oktoberfest (put on by the Cincinnati USA...
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Oct 25, 2022 · Cincinnati is lauded as a German town. Are there any places in Cincinnati that remind you of home? To be completely honest, no! This is a question I get a lot because many people know about Cincinnati’s rich German heritage; but to me it feels like a typical mid-sized American city.
From Cincinnati’s founding in 1788, the first settlers were primarily of English and Scottish ancestry and members of Protestant denominations, such as the Baptist, Presbyterian and Episcopalian. In 1830, 5% of the city’s total population had German roots. Within ten years the number of German-born immigrants reached 30%, and that number ...
May 25, 2017 · Beginning in the 1830s, many Germans began to migrate into Cincinnati. Many lived in the area known as Over-the-Rhine, and that area became an important center for the German immigrant culture. There were German churches, clubs, schools, and even German-language newspapers.
- German Immigration to Hamilton County
- Origins of German Immigrants in Hamilton County
- Locations of German Immigrants in Hamilton County
- Migrations of German Immigrants from Hamilton County
- Birthplaces of Hamilton County Germans
- German Newspapers
- German Society Records
- Civil War Records
German Dunkards were among the first settlers in Hamilton County, arriving with Benjamin Steitz (Stites) from New Jersey in 1788, but immigration was slow at first. In 1820 Germans made up just 5% of the population. Mass immigration began in the 1830s with Cincinnati's boom in the meatpacking and shipping industries and brought political refugees a...
Before 1830, Germans immigrating to Hamilton County came from the southwestern area of German-speaking Europe, particularly from Württemberg and Switzerland, as well as Baden, Alsace and northern Germany, especially Oldenburg. German-Americans from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey also settled in Hamilton County in this early period....
In 1825, most Germans lived in the southeastern area of Cincinnati near the Public Landing. Later Germans moved north toward the city line, where property prices were lower, and settled in a neighborhood of brick apartment buildings and row houses north and east of the Miami and Erie Canal (now Central Parkway), called Over-the-Rhine in honor of Ge...
Hamilton County was not the final destination for many immigrants, who stayed a few years in Cincinnati and then moved on to other locations, especially up the Miami and Erie Canal corridor and along the Ohio River. Many German immigrants settled in Covington and Newport, across the Ohio River from Cincinnati. Cincinnati churches were sometimes res...
Many types of records may provide the birthplaces of Germans who came to Hamilton County. Details will eventually be provided in this article for each category. 1. German newspapers 2. German society records 3. Civil War records 4. German histories and biographies 5. Emigration records 6. German church records 7. Cemetery records 8. German orphanag...
A total of 177 newspapers and journals were published in the German language in Cincinnati, many for only a few years. Notices of death, marriage, inheritance, and society membership can provide information about German origin. 1. Arndt, Karl, and May Olson. The German Language Press of the Americas, Volume 1: History and Bibliography, 1732-1968.Mü...
Hundreds of German Vereine (societies) have been formed in Cincinnati since 1819 to serve a wide variety of purposes, and thousands of Germans became members – sometimes leaving a paper trail. Before World War I over 100 Vereine were active: 12 singing societies, 12 trade unions, 59 mutual aid societies, 3 marksmen clubs, 3 Turnvereine, 13 cultural...
The 9th, 28th, 106th and 108th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiments were composed of Cincinnati Germans. The Turners organized the 9th OVI. Other Ohio regiments with Cincinnati Germans within their ranks included the one-hundred-day 165th Volunteer Infantry Regiment, an all-German unit; the 47th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment, half German; and the 1...
Cincinnati, along with Milwaukee and St. Louis, is one of the three corners of the "German Triangle," so-called for its historically high concentration of German-American residents.
German neighborhood. Former location of the canal. The revolutions of 1848 in the German states brought thousands of German refugees to the United States. In Cincinnati they settled on the outskirts of the city, north of Miami and Erie Canal where there was an abundance of cheap rental units.
