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The arts and crafts book of the worshipful Guild of violin-makers of Markneukirchen, from the year 1677 to the year 1772, 1894
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1protectors of Protestantism) and retained the designation of "Refugees" amid their new surroundings; so in Markneukirchen the children and grandchildren of the first exiles continued to be known as such.
3The second half of the first century of the history of violin-making in Markneukirchen, which, alas! the Book of the Guild only allows us to follow up to the year 1772, shows unmistakable signs of soaring ambition, of a great consolidation of the trade and of its statutory ordinances, and a greater influx of new masters, although the increase in the number of established families living by the art was comparatively small.
5It has been already shown by the list which we have given that of the non-exiles who had settled there in the 16th century the old families Brann, Götz (Goetzel), Pohlmann, and Glier, had been taken in; we need only add besides that the exile-family Papel (Pöpel) is casually mentioned in Markneukirchen in 1632.
7The following are the masterships conferred between the years 1727 and 1772 to which the numbers denoting new families are added in parenthesis:—
91. Friedrich Pöpel, 1727, who was apprenticed to his father.
102. Johann Adam Schönfelder, son of the deceased Burgher and violin-maker, Johann Schönfelder, 1729.
113. (I.) Johann Christoph Schetelich, who married a master's daughter, 1729.
124. (II.) Hans Christian Uebel, who probably did likewise, since he, like the last-named master, was admitted on payment of
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