Maria Mandel

Maria Mandel 

was born on June 11, 1870 in the beautiful little village of Marktbreit, Bavaria, Germany.

Maria was known to her family and friends by the nickname of "Rettel"

She was born to:

Johann Mandel (1831 - 1886) of Marktbreit

and

Anna Margaretha Kinzinger (1830 - 1910) of Huttenheim

Her birth record indicates that she was of the Catholic religion.

In 1894 Maria married Wendelin Grunewald (1871 - 1933) of Frickenhausen. They met in the town square in Marktbreit which is north of Frickenhausen. Wendelin would tease her and say, "You'd rather paddle downstream than marry upstream." According to their son Franz Xaver, "They got along well. Both were very ambitious and hardworking people."

According to records they resided in Frickenhausen where all 6 of their children were born:

Katinka (1894 - ?)

Barbara 'Barbel' Grunewald (1896 - 1971)

Georg Johann 'Schosh' (1897 - 1917)

Franz Xaver (1903 - 1985) our ancestral line

Elizabetha 'Liesel' (1909 - 1932)

Wendelin (1913 - 1986)

This is the street that Maria and Wendelin lived on in Frickenhausen. The names translates to 10th Street in English.

This is Zehntgasse - the street that leads to their home.

 This is their home on Zehntgasse 

Most likely the  front part of the home with the balcony was not  original to the house and not there when they lived there.

 These red poppies were by the street at their house. The red poppies are a childhood memory for me when we visited my grandfather (Maria's son) in Ochsenfurt.

She died in 1925 in Frickenhausen from blood poisoning caused by the thorn of a rose. The story goes that at the time of her death, the clock in her home stopped working. These are the gates of the cemetery where she and Wendelin were buried.