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historic spots in wisconsin w a titus viii st nazianz a unique religious colony tell me ye winged winds that round my pathway roar do ye not know some spot where mortals weep no more some lone and pleasant dell some valley in the west where free from strife for gain the weary soul may rest legend and history are strangely interwoven in the story of st nazianz a religious colony founded in 1854 in manitowoc county the narrative begins in a foreign land in the middle of the last century when father ambrose oschwald a priest in the black forest region of baden germany who had shown marked qualities of leadership decided to bring the entire membership of his parish to america and there in the wilderness to found a colony in accord with his ideals there were several reasons that contributed to their decision to leave the fatherland the population had increased until the country was over crowded so that it was difficult to secure profitable employ ment then too germany had just passed through a period of revolution and the country was seething with unrest many of the german people had already emigrated to wisconsin and this influenced father oschwald to plant his colony in the badger state the group that left baden for the new world num bered 113 persons and as the entire community was included there were none of the heartbreaking separations so common in the cases of individual emigrants by selling all of their property the community was able to raise 24,000 florins to pay the expenses of the long journey and to get a start in their new home across the sea they left strasburg in may 1854 and after a voyage covering fifty-four days landed in new york here they rested for
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| Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 5, number 2, December 1921 |
| Article Title | The Wisconsin magazine of history: Volume 5, number 2, December 1921 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | State Historical Society of Wisconsin |
| Series | Wisconsin Magazine of History ; v. 5, no. 2 |
| Format-Digital | xml |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol05no020000 |
| Description | This issue contains the recollections of early settler John Barber Parkinson, the letters of WWI soldiers, and a light story on the lengths Society archivists have gone to track down important historical documents. |
| Volume | 005 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year | 1921-1922 |
Description
| Title | 160 |
| Page Number | 160 |
| Article Title | Historic spots in Wisconsin |
| Author | Titus, William A., 1868-1951 |
| Page type | Article home |
| Format-Digital | jpeg |
| Publisher-Electronic | Wisconsin Historical Society |
| Rights | © Copyright 2006 by the Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison, Wisconsin) |
| Publication Date-Electronic | 2006 |
| ISSN | 1943-7366 |
| Identifier-Digital | vol05no020048 |
| Description | Historic Spots in Wisconsin: St. Nazianz, A Unique Religious Colony: In 1854, 113 people in Baden (an entire town) sold all their possessions and left Germany for Wisconsin. Guided by their priest, Rev. Ambrose Oschwald (1801-1873), they established a new town organized around utopian ideals of piety and devotion in Manitowoc Co., called St. Nazianz. This article explains how they began their experiment, how some died and others lived near starvation in the first year, and that the community subsisted on support from other Catholic congregations initially. All property was owned in common, meals were taken together, and all labor was unpaid, except in food and clothing. The article includes several photos and concludes by explaining how the community dissipated after Rev. Oschwald's death. (6 pages) |
| Volume | 005 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Year | 1921-1922 |
| State/Province | Wisconsin; |
| County | Manitowoc County; |
| Community | Saint Nazianz |
| Decade | 1850-1859; |
| Subject | Religion; Catholics; German Americans; Utopian socialism; |
| Full Text | historic spots in wisconsin w a titus viii st nazianz a unique religious colony tell me ye winged winds that round my pathway roar do ye not know some spot where mortals weep no more some lone and pleasant dell some valley in the west where free from strife for gain the weary soul may rest legend and history are strangely interwoven in the story of st nazianz a religious colony founded in 1854 in manitowoc county the narrative begins in a foreign land in the middle of the last century when father ambrose oschwald a priest in the black forest region of baden germany who had shown marked qualities of leadership decided to bring the entire membership of his parish to america and there in the wilderness to found a colony in accord with his ideals there were several reasons that contributed to their decision to leave the fatherland the population had increased until the country was over crowded so that it was difficult to secure profitable employ ment then too germany had just passed through a period of revolution and the country was seething with unrest many of the german people had already emigrated to wisconsin and this influenced father oschwald to plant his colony in the badger state the group that left baden for the new world num bered 113 persons and as the entire community was included there were none of the heartbreaking separations so common in the cases of individual emigrants by selling all of their property the community was able to raise 24,000 florins to pay the expenses of the long journey and to get a start in their new home across the sea they left strasburg in may 1854 and after a voyage covering fifty-four days landed in new york here they rested for |