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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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1fact that Crasselt mentions in the beginning of the next century, besides a violin-making Reichel family, three or four families of dealers or traders of the same name. Three families named Paulus are also mentioned as violin-makers. We must assume that this family occupied itself with the other trades prevalent among the citizens of Markneukirchen, such as cloth-making, and especially string-making (in which calling we find them employed till the end of the century), as they are not mentioned in the register of the Guild among violin-makers proper before 1772, yet at the very latest they must have become inhabitants of our town in the middle of the previous century, since at that time they were already closely connected with the Reichels by marriage. Anna Margarethe, née Paulus, is mentioned in 1749 as widow of the Master Christian Reichel. The Paulus family was also connected with the original colonist family of Reichels by ties of religious sympathy as they were descended originally, on the mother's side, from one of the Protestant families driven, in the year 1640, from Austria on account of their faith, and which settled first in the village of Wohlbach, between Schöneck and Markneukirchen, whence they subsequently came over to Markneukirchen. We learn from a chronicle in the possession of Herr Richard Schuster that an old man of the name of Johann Georg Paulus died during the course of a commercial tour in Paderborn, and left among his personal effects two basses, besides several small packets of string and other appurtenances. Certainly this Johann
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