Our ancestor, Johann Mandel, was born in the pretty little village of Marktbreit. On our visit to Germany in the summer of 2016 we visited Marktbreit and made sure to take plenty of photos as we walked around the town.
This is a photo of the entrance into the town as well as the outside of the city wall and tower.
You can see it is a beautiful little Franconian village looking through the entranceway.
This photo is looking back at the entrance tower from inside the village.
A beautiful building trimmed in yellow and the tower of the Lutheran church off to the right.
This is S. Nikolai Lutheran Church
The beautiful old doors into St. Nikolai
Narrow cobblestone streets lead to homes where the citizens of Marktbreit reside. Unfortunately, we do not know the home in which the Mandel family lived.
St. Ludwig Catholic Church which is most likely the church that Johann was baptized in.
The entrance doors to St. Ludwig's. We caught my cousin Sabine's husband Dieter in the photo.
This is the tower of the Lutheran Church from a different angle.
This sign indicates that the cemetery is located behind this wall.
More beautiful old doors that lead into the walled cemetery.
The next couple of photos are of the cemetery where our ancestors surely were buried in the past.
The village has beautiful architecture and is so clean.
Water still separates the city from the outside wall which was built to keep marauders out during the Medieval time period.
Marktbreit was a beautiful Medieval village that is well preserved.
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