Neu Schowe Town Chronicle

The church records of Neu Schowe (Batschka, today Hungary) are probably lost in WWII. Some fragments of information are kept in the town chronicle "Heimatbuch der Gemeinde Schowe", edited by Christian Ludwig Brücker in 1961, and in the tax list "Landeskonskription 1828", Hungarian National Archive, IGI #622966, page 64

5th Generation (after Mattheis) :

Heinrich Riegel, reformed
immigrant from Otzweiler, County of Meisenheim, Palatinate

Unfortunately, the names of the children do not match to the Becherbach register. A possible explanation could be that they died in the dysentery epidemic 1785, which took away the lifes of many children among the new settlers. Emanuel and Karl could be born after they left Becherbach.

6th Generation :

Emanuel Riegel

* The Vienna Emigration Lists show a Johann Jakob Spieß, married to Maria Christine Pauli from Framersheim, Alzey.
Passing Vienna on 22 July 1785.

Karl Riegel

7th Generation :

The Neu Schowe Tax List 1828 shows 187 Persons, "the names of tax contributors, married or unmarried, between 18 and 60 years, inclusively", written in Latin. Among these are 2 Riegels:

#67: Carolus Rigel
1 cohabitant
1 house
8 plantations
5 meadows
2 cattles
0 pastures
0 woods

#175: Carolus Rigel
1 cohabitant
1 house
16 plantations
11 meadows
1 cow
1 young cattle of 2 years
2 horses of 3 years
1 horse of 2 years
1 pig of 1 year

8th Generation :

Data from the Surcin Parish Register:

Michael Riegel

* The Vienna Emigration Lists show a Friedrich Held, born 1756, married to Sophia, born 1763, emigrating from Bitsch, Lorraine to Neu Schowe.
Passing Vienna 1785. Friedrich died 1802, Sophia died 1826.

Michael and Maria emigrated to Surcin after 1859, when land in Neu Schowe had become unaffordable expensive and people of reformed confession were allowed to settle in Syrmia.

9th Generation :

Friedrich Riegel

Philipp Riegel, senior

Josef Riegel

Jakob Riegel