NABINGER FAMILY IN AUSTRIA

I recently heard from Ernst and Rosina Nabinger who gave the following information about the Nabinger Family history in Austria.  Following is what they reported.

Our family lives in a village in Austria called Wulkaprodersdorf, 50 kilometers from Vienna. The landscape is idyllic and is part of the "Wulka-plain" with the Wulka River crossing the area. We are in the Austrian state of Burgenland which is the easternmost state of Austria. Lake Neusiedl, the largest steppe lake in Europe is about 15 kilometers away. The area is quiet, has almost no crime, and people work as civil servants, laborers, artisans and farmers. Due to the mild climate and the proximity to the lake we have a strong vineyard and wine industry. People like good food with a glass of wine and Vienna schnitzel with potato salad and Hungarian goulash (spicy, with onions meat) are both popular meals. The population is almost exclusively Catholic.

In Austria, there are only about 50 "Nabingers". They come from our village and spread throughout the country only in recent years with the growth of motorization. Nabingers in our area were first recorded around 1850 at which time the area was inhabited with Croatian-speaking people. The colonization of the Croatian Adriatic Sea took place in 1650, as prior to that time the area was almost completely extinguished by wars and epidemics. Croatian culture has been partially maintained through language and traditions to this day. The people in our village still speak mostly Croatian and, of course, the language of the country, which is German. The area until 1921 was part of the Hungarian side during the time of Austria-Hungary Empire and at school we were speaking Hungarian. It was only in 1921, after the First World War, that our area was split off from Hungary and added to Austria. From that date, the official language has been German.

Nabinger is a German name. We therefore assume that a German journeyman came to our area and stayed. Family genealogy is difficult because before 1921 the files are incomplete and there are language problems. The church is planning a digitization of archives and perhaps after that is completed we can learn something more about our ancestors.

My husband, Ernst, was a police officer and I have worked with a notary. Our daughter Ursula studied Nutritional Sciences and her husband is a landscape architect. They have three daughters 18, 13 and 9 years old.

We live in a house with a 1,800 m2 garden, so since our retirement we work more with the garden, the own fruit trees, and bio vegetables. In addition we have a 10,000 m2 garden next to the Wulka River. We love this idyllic base and spend a lot of time with family and many friends.

NABINGER FAMILY HISTORY IS TIED TO THE HISTORY OF THE PALATINATE

Since the earliest years of the known history of the Nabinger Family, about 1600, our Family history has been tied to that of an area known as the Palatinate in what is now central western Germany.

The Palatinate, also known as Rhenish Palatinate (German: Rheinpfalz), occupies more than a quarter of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Rheinland-Pfalz). A resident of the Palatinate is known as a Palatine and the area was part of Bavaria during most of the time of the Kingdom of Bavaria. The regional dialect of the Palatinate is Palatine German or Pfaelzisch, a West Franconian dialect of German.

In the west, the Palatinate borders on Saarland. In the northwest, the Hunsrück mountain range forms the border with the Rhineland region. The eastern border with Hesse and the Baden region runs along the Rhine River. In the south, the German-French border separates the Palatinate from Alsace. One third of the region is covered by the Palatinate Forest (Pfälzerwald) which is Germany's largest contiguous forested area and part of the Franco-German Palatinate Forest-North Vosges Biosphere Reserve.

The German Wine Route (or the Deutsche Weinstrasse) passes through the Palatinate which is one of the greatest wine producing regions in Germany and in the last two decades has became well known for a large number of prizewinning white and red wines of highest quality produced by a number of young winemakers.

The relatively mild Palatinate weather permits the cultivating of almond and fig trees, stone pines, Mediterranean Cypress, palms, and even banana species. The lower hilly regions are known for its extended chestnut forests, sometimes referred to as "German Tuscany" in tourist advertising.

Saumagen

The traditional Palatine cuisine is in parts very hearty and substantial mainly because the recipes were developed by the physically hard-working population or in times of poverty. In comparison to other regional German cuisines its dishes are also hotter and spicier. The most renowned dish from the Palatinate is Saumagen which is a mixture of lean pork, sausage meat, potatoes, onions, marjoram, cloves and pepper in a casing. It is so famous that even cooking competitions for butchers and cooks take place. As with most traditional dishes there are many variations with additional ingredients and spices, but they all have in common that the stomach of a pig is used as the cooking container in which the mixture is simmered. The finished product is then removed from the casing, cut into slices and can be either served fresh or be roasted before eating.

75th Annual Novinger Family Reunion

 

All descendants of Dewalt Novinger are welcome to attend the:

75th Annual Novinger Family Reunion

Sunday, July 15, 2012
Wiconisco Creek Park Pavilion
Water Company Road
Millersburg, PA 17061

12:30pm Covered dish luncheon promptly - rain or shine
1:30pm Business Meeting

From Millersburg, take Route 209, go past Weis Markets and take the first road on the right, Romberger Road
From square in Elizabethville, follow Route 209 for 5.7 miles, turn left on Romberger Road.

Announcement information provided by Brian Novinger

The German Wine Road ******************** Deutsche Weinstrasse

 

Traveling the German Wine Road, in particular the Neustadt Region, is a trip through the Homeland of the Novinger and Nabinger Family. From either Bad Duerkheim or Neustadt an der Weinstrasse, it is only 12 miles to Frankenstein, the Nabinger Home Town.

The German wine road in Rhineland-Palatinate is Germany’s oldest scenic drive; starting in the town of Bockenheim in the southwest of Germany, the 50 miles long wine road leads you through Germany’s second largest wine growing region all the way to the French border.

 

 

 

Snaking through vineyards, wine villages and the hills of the Palatinate Forest, you’ll get a great taste of the region’s 1000-year old viniculture; along the way, you can stop in wine shops, tasting rooms, and visit local wine festivals.

 

One of the most charming parts of the German wine road are the quaint old towns and villages you will pass on your drive; take your time to explore their historic market squares, old world restaurants and narrow cobble stone streets. Soak up some local flavor at open-air farmer’s markets and wine festivals, which are celebrated throughout late spring, summer, and fall.

 

The Palatinate wine region is blessed with a mild, Mediterranean climate; thanks to its abundance of sunny days, exotic fruits like figs, lemons, and kiwis are cultivated here – a rarity for Germany.

 

 

In spring, the Palatinate countryside is ablaze with the pink and white colors of thousands of blossoming almond trees.

 

 

A drive along the German wine road is also a trip back in time. Alongside medieval castles, half timbered houses, and century old abbeys, you'll find traces of even earlier epochs.

 

Vines have been imported to Palatinate in Roman times, and ruins of Roman wine cellars and old taverns are vivid reminders of that legacy.

 

The Vineyards of the Palatinate

*******Profiles of the Nabinger Family******* HERMANN NABINGER

HERMANN & ELSE NABINGER - Ludwigshafen, Rheinland-Pfalz

Hermann Nabinger is the subject of our first “Personal Profile” of the Nabinger-Novinger Family. Hermann is being recognized because when I began my search to establish contact between the Novingers of the United States of America and the Nabingers of Germany, it was he who responded enthusiastically, providing me with information on the genealogy of the Nabingers in Rheinland-Pfalz, or Rhineland-Palatinate as it is known in English. In addition, when I and my wife, Tracy, planned a trip to Rheinland-Pfalz in June 2011, Hermann and Else were very gracious to invite us to stay in their home and take us to visit points of interest throughout the Palatinate- Homeland of the Nabinger-Novinger Family.

After growing up in Frankenstein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Hermann attended university in Kaiserslautern, Germany, training as a Bailiff in the Courts of Germany. Upon graduation, he opened his Bailiff’s Office in Ludwigshafen, operated this office throughout his professional career, and after retiring recently, continues to live in Ludwigshafen with his wife, Else.  Else was born in one of the wine producing villages on the Weinstrasse, or German Wine Route, a wonderful road passing through the many small towns that are located in the Palatinate wine region. After graduation from her studies, Else worked for a company located on the Wine Route until she and Hermann married.

 

The most important village in Germany for the Novingers of the United States and the Nabingers of Germany is the village of Frankenstein, Pflaz. Our earliest records of the Nabinger Family are from Frankenstein and Hermann can trace his blood line back to the first recorded Nabinger who settled in Frankenstein and purchased one of the 2 farms located in this valley at the center of what is now the Village. In 1722 his ancestor paid for the construction of a small church building. That 1722 wooden church is no longer standing, but a substantial church now stands in the same location and adjoining the church is the village cemetery.  Today approximately 25% of all the people buried in this cemetery are of the Nabinger Family, as Nabingers make up a large percentage of the total population of Frankenstein.

 

While visiting Frankenstein our wives took the following picture of Hermann and me. Hermann is wearing a cap I gave him which was made in 1967 to commemorate the 50th Wedding Anniversary of my Mother & Father, Frank & Maude Novinger, from Collins, Iowa, USA, and I am wearing a Brazil cap to recognize the many Nabingers who immigrated to Brazil and now form a large Nabinger Family there.

 

 

Glen Novinger (Left)  -  Hermann Nabinger (Right)

Together in Frankenstein, Rheinland-Pfalz

 

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NOVINGER <> NABINGER VISIT: Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany – June 2011

Hermann Nabinger & Glen Novinger

In May, 2010, I contacted Hermann Nabinger in Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany. Hermann Nabinger was born in Frankenstein, Rheinland-Pfalz, the earliest known village of the Novingers & Nabingers, and now lives in Ludwigshafen, just 45 kilometers from our Family Village.

So during the 2nd week of June, 2011, my wife, Tracy and I had the pleasure of meeting and visiting Hermann and his wife, Else, in their home. During the past year Hermann and I had compared our family genealogy trees and determined that we are directly related and descended from our common Grandfather, Hans Jakob Nabinger, who was born in 1630 or 1637 and died on 01/21/1710. Hans Jakob Nabinger is our 7th Great Grandfather, or 9 generations back in time.

 

Hermann with Else and Tracy

 

During our week with Hermann and Else we made many visits to historic cities in the Rheinland-Pfalz State.  But none was more moving than the day we spent in Frankenstein. The photo below shows Hermann and myself sitting on a stone bench on a street in Frankenstein, just 30 meters from the location of the first Nabinger’s farm in that village.

 

 

Check this Blog soon for more postings on our

Nabinger<>Novinger Home Town, Frankenstein, Rheinland-Pfalz.

Flag of Rheinland-Pfalz

FAMILY HISTORY OF THE NABINGERS OF BRAZIL

The Nabinger Family that originated in Southwest-Central and Western Germany on the border with France can trace its history origins back to the earliest part of the 1600’s.  In the 1740’s some members of the Family emigrated to the United States of America where one branch of the Family continued the use of the Nabinger spelling of the name. Another branch of the Family which immigrated to the Unites States changed the spelling of the name to Novinger.  Another immigration went to Brazil where the original spelling of the Family name was retained.  Now we have a sizeable number of Nabingers in Brazil.

Crest of Hesse, Germany                 

In 1825 Paul Nabinger, who was born in Feinsheim, Hesse, Germany, arrived in Brazil.  He took 3 sons with him to Brazil, but we don’t know whether his wife went with him or where and when she died. In Brazil Paul Nabinger married again and most of the Brazilian Nabingers are descendants of this second marriage. 

       Village in Hesse on the Rhine River

Recently we have made contact with our Nabinger Cousins in Brazil and several of them have joined our Facebook Group: “Novinger & Nabinger Family Network”.  We are very pleased to have established contact with our Family in Brazil and we invite all the Brazilian Nabingers to join our Group at the following link:

http://www.facebook.com/search.php?q=novinger%26%20nabinger%20family%20network&init=quick&tas=0.28684427831414727#!/home.php?sk=group_324879233396

Glen Novinger – Austin, Texas