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| Coons/Koontz Family Page http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/8722/ Koontz History in Germany http://www.arctic-design.com/elizabeth/history.html Koontz Family History in Germany By the time the Peace of Wesphalia of 1648 brought the drawn out conflict to a close, Germany had lost about half of her people to the ravages of war and the accompanying plagues and famine. It was around this time that Gotthard Kuntze (abt. 1610), son of Johann, and his son Johannes Kuntze lived. The brief peace was a compromise of sorts that allowed the Southern and Western lands to remain Catholic while allowing Protestants to retain the land they had acquired and recognizing the Reformed faith. However, shortly afterward Germany was plunged into yet another series of wars. The French wars to the west, the Northern Wars with Sweden and the Baltic and The Turkish wars to the South. This was in addition to the internal conflicts always present. The Thirty Year War left the Siegen region divided between the Protestants and Catholics but for the most part, at peace. Then, in 1679 with the death of John Maurice, the conflict arose again resulting in escalating violence and death*. It was in the midst of this in 1714 that One of Johannes sons, Johannes Kuntze (1671) watched his brother, Jost Cuntze, leave for America. And, as the conflict worsened, Johannes' son, Johann Jost Kuntze (1712), who had been only a toddler when his uncle left, went to join him in America in 1737*. Weaver family tree on Southern Traveler website, http://www.hsv.tis.net/genealogy/gedhtml/huckaby/ | ||||||||||||
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