{"id":726,"date":"2020-11-07T19:54:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T18:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ctbeatles.de\/?page_id=726"},"modified":"2021-03-13T20:15:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-13T19:15:21","slug":"the-behner-genealogy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ctbeatles.de\/history\/the-behner-genealogy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Behner Genealogy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Behnerkopf\/Behnerhardt\/Behnerbruch)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Behnerbad\"

Behnerbad vormals Molzbergbad<\/p><\/div>\n

The origins of the Behner<\/strong> clan descend from a very large farm in Betzdorf\/Sieg In the Rhineland-Palatinate\/Germany called\u00a0 \u201cBannhof\u201d<\/strong>which means \u201cfree property\u201d.The owners of the original Bannhof called\u00a0 themselves\u00a0 \u201czum Ban\u201d<\/strong>and possessed a huge floorground containing the whole area on the right side of the river Sieg including the woods of the Molzberg.Pitily the initial Bannhof was diminished by a forced division about\u00a0 1200 A.D.<\/strong> in Bannhof West<\/strong> and Bannhof East<\/strong>(Hohenbetzdorf). The smaller west part of the Bannhof is documented\u00a0 for the first time in 1249<\/strong>\u00a0 and situated on the expand of ground of the Betzdorf colony and the Molzberg mountain slope spanning up from the BEHNERBRUCH<\/strong>(Behnerswamp) across the BEHNERHARDT<\/strong> (Behnerwoodslope) to the monumental awesome BEHNERKOPF<\/strong> (Behnerhead) a tremendous rock granting a gorgeous view overlooking the winding Sieg valley and reminding of a proud free clan of independent farmers. The first Bannhof owner mentioned in a document is represented by the legendary Peter zum Ban<\/strong> born in 1540 A.D<\/strong>. who substituted the original main\u00a0 central building by a new edifice in 1583. While the heirs of the Bannhof called themselves \u201czum Ban\u201d<\/strong> the lots of brothers and sisters leaving the paternal property received a juridically differentiated\u00a0 name change to B\u00e4hner<\/strong> or Behner<\/strong>. The Bannhof was transformed in a real Bahnhof (Train station) when being bought by a train company in 1864 <\/strong>to provide train workers\u00b4 homes urgently needed at this time. One of the last descendants of the Behner (zum Ban) clan lives near Betzdorf in the former farm Neu-Kalteich <\/strong>founded by the legendarySebastian Behner<\/strong> in 1864. <\/strong>The Behner family at Neu-Kalteich officially renamed\u00a0 the BEHNERKOPF<\/strong> (Behnerhead)on \u00a0the 10th<\/sup> of July 2018<\/strong> with the permission<\/strong> of Oliver Schneider<\/strong> \u00a0the only present heir and owner of the whole Molzberg wood. <\/strong>All American Behner emigrants are greeted and invited to contact me and to join my Behner genealogical \u00a0research.Hans Ulrich Behner<\/strong> (Mainz\/Germany)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>