Allendorf History

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

Allendorf, Germany

A thesis
Presented to the Faculty of the
University of Alaska in Partial Fulfillment
of the Requirements
for the Degree of
Master of Arts

By
Gisela M. Dykema - B.A. Anthropology
College, Alaska
May 20, 1973

Used with permission of author. Many thanks to Mrs. Dykema for granting permission to present her thesis on this website for the benefit of genealogists researching in Allendorf.

Click on the link below to read each chapter.

I. Prehistory and Early History

II. The Reformation and the Thirty Years War

III. The Influence of the Church

IV. Language and Dress

V. The Community and the Land

VI. Family, Kinship and Social Structures

VII. Life Cycle Until 1939 Part 1 Part 2

VIII. The War and Its Aftermath

IX. Influx of Alien Cultures

X. Transition and Reorganization

XI. Allendorf Today and Tomorrow

XII. Conclusions

References

Tables

Published in German:

ALLENDORF - STADTALLENDORF
Kulturmuster, Bevölkerungs - und
Erwerbsstruktur im Wandel

Gisela M. Dykema

Übersetzt und erweitert von
Dr. Alfred Görge

Mit 30 Bildern und
21 Übersichten

sowie einer
Germeindechronik
von
Karl Weitzel

und einer
Ehrentafel

1980
Frankfurt am Main

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