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The nest in Ebersheim in Alsace

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Traditionsreiche Linie, die sich sehr wahrscheinlich bis auf die bereits 1316 in Straßburg erwähnten Lorber zurückführen lässt (Elsässer Stammlinie). Ebersheim war bis 1424 im Besitz des Bischofs von Straßburg. Es bestanden also enge Verbindungen. Gut möglich, dass Mitglieder der Familie bereits in dieser Zeit von der Metropole in das knapp 40 Kilometer südwestlich gelegene Städtchen zogen.

Progenitor

Die frühesten bekannten Erwähnungen in Ebersheim waren die Brüder Walter und Claus Lorber um 1520, wo Walter als Schultheiß bereits eine führende Rolle innehielt. Das lässt darauf schließen, dass sich die Familie schon eine Weile dort etabliert hatte.

Alphonse Lorber vermutet, dass es sich bei einem 1950 eingelegten einstöckigen Haus in der Kirbsgasse (heute Rue des Francs) um das Stammhaus der Familie gehandelt haben dürfte (Chronik Ebersheim, Seite 245). Auf dem Grund wohnen bis heute Mitglieder unserer Familie. 

Werdegang

For over 500 years, the Lorbers have remained loyal to Ebersheim, which today has around 2200 inhabitants. Over this long period, the family naturally formed various branches and twigs within the village. So the branch Diebold with the branches Nicolas (mayor and farmers in Kirchgass) and Jean-Joseph and Jean-Antoine, and the branch Hans with the branches Georges, Jean (farmers and weavers), Martin (landlords and bakers) and Antoine ( Farmers).

Outstanding biographies

  • Jean Lorber (1614 or 1618-1688), around 1683 Schultheiß;
  • Nicolas Lorber (1696-1763), mayor and farmer;
  • Georges Lorber (1693-1785), church attendant;
  • Antoine Lorber (1724-1777), one of the godfathers of a bell;
  • Johann Jacob Lorber (1729-1798), became Wirt zur Linde in Kappel am Rhein, founded the > Kappel-Grafenhausen host branch
  • Martin Lorber (1770-1851), volunteered in 1792 as a rider of the revolutionary army, 1810 member of the church factory;
  • Sébastien Lorber (1806-1872), soldier and musician;
  • Ignace Lorber (1817-probably 1895), carpenter, emigrated from Ebersheim to Iowa;
  • Martin Lorber (1818-1896), owner of the inn "Ochsenwirt" or "Passavant";
  • Francois Antoine Lorber (1826-1896), police officer;
  • (Francois) Antoine Lorber (1829-1916), had a chapel (the Chapelle Notre-Dame de Lourdes) built on the national road in Ebersheim in 1904 to celebrate his golden mass;
  • Théodore Lorber (1854-1914), teacher at the Collège Stanislas in Paris;
  • Joseph Achille Lorber (1862-1896), moved to Ebersmuster and founded his own little branch there;
  • Alphonse Lorber (1893-1968), author of the chronicle of the village of Eberheim;
  • Lucien Isidore Lorber (1893-1967), school teacher in Russange and Strasbourg;
  • Henri Marie Antoine Francois Lorber (1894-1966), Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor;
  • Joseph Lorber (1894-1970), moved to Strasbourg;
  • Marcel Lorber (* 1902), killed in World War II;
  • Léon Lorber (1926-2008), Secretary General of the City Hall of Sélestat and Treasurer of the National Union of City Hall General Secretaries.

Spread today

Most of Lorber Ebersheim and Alsace are still widespread. For example, there is a confectionery in Colmar. Some also live in Paris, Saxony and probably also in the USA.

A branch changed to the other side of the Rhine and founded the Kappel-Grafenhausen branch.

The article in the family magazine Laurus

This branch was also covered in the family magazine "Laurus" in 2014. The corresponding article can be downloaded here (PDF in German).

Do not be surprised about deviations from the above text. The article reflects the state of research from 2014. In contrast, the text on the homepage is up to date with family research.
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Sources:

  • Alphonse Lorber: The Chronicle of the Village of Ebersheim, 1963, Imprimerie Alsatia Sélestat
  • Geneanet.org, family tree of Paul Isel
  • According to Daniel Lorber, Bautzen
  • Ancestry.com
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