The Heidebauern Connection - Paks on the Danube

This riverport on the west side of the Danube was the jumping off spot for the immigrant trains into the interior of Tolna County.  Large numbers of Heidebauern settled here rather than taking up land, because they were artisans and tradesmen and sought a life other than homesteading and farming.  Along with them there were also colonists from Germany, primarily from Wurttemberg and Baden.  They followed the same pattern here as in Gyorkony, and although they were fellow Lutherans they did not intermarry with the other group until later in the 19th century.  Any attempts on their part to develop any kind of Lutheran congregational life was impossible due to the influence of the sheriff of the County who also happened to the bishop of the area.  It was only in the early 1800’s that Lutheran Church life officially began there so that the information I have comes from the Roman Catholic parish records and also includes Lutherans from Bikacs and Gyorkony, who at times were also forced to come under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic clergy.  The following family names can be found in these records:

Aich(Eich)
Achs(Ochs)
Bauer
Bayer
Becht
Beck
Becker
Bens(Benz)
Bernhard
Bernthaller
Binter
Blasser
Bock
Brandtner
Braun
Brihm
Bruckner
Brunner
Durr
Eberhardt
Ebert
Eich
Eiler
Engel
Engelhardt
Falb
Fantzler
Fischer*
Friedrich
Fritz
Frohlich
Galler
Gangl
Gast
Germann
Gobel
Goldmann
Graf
Groff
Gross*
Grunwald
Gsellmann
Gutsell
Haass
Hack
Hackl
Hackstock
Hadinger
Hanol
Hartmann
Haupt
Hausser
Herber
Hermann
Hess
Hessmer
Hirsch
Hobler
Hofbauer
Hoffmann
Hollendonner
Huber
Huntzinger
Hutfless
Jager
Keim
Keller
Khern
Klag
Kleitol
Kloiber
Koller
Kotzmann
Krauss
Krebs
Kreidemacher
Kremm
Kreutzer
Kubik
Lackner
Lang
Leitner
Macher
Majer
Mannweif
Marks(Marx)
Marth
Marz
Mattern
Meixner
Messer
Muller*
Munch
Muth*
Mutz
Neuhauser
Nikitscher
Nitschinger
Osswald
Ochs
Pamer
Paul
Piller
Pingetzer
Pinter
Piringer
Pohl
Polon
Poor
Potz
Prahauser
Rapp
Rauch*
Rausch*
Reichert
Reiss
Reth
Rohfritz
Rohm
Rohn
Ruder
Rumpp
Saffenauer
Sammet
Sauer
Schafer
Schleyer
Schlosser
Schmausser
Schmeltzer
Schmidt
Schmidtberger
Schneider*
Schosser
Schrenck
Schwarz
Schweigert
Seib
Spiess
Stangl
Steiner
Stelzer
Stoos
Stromberger
Stumpf
Sulzer
Tell
Tetzl
Tieringer
Till*
Trapp
Tullner
Unger
Vogel
Wagner
Weber*
Weger
Wehnhardt
Weiler
Weiss
Weissling
Weymer
Wiessberger
Wimmer
Winckler
Wolf
Wunsch
Wurm
Zech
Zecher