Johann Löfenius Zirkle

Johann Lofonius ZIRCKEL1,2,1 was born in 1650 in Hamback Solms Braunre Co., Germany. He died after 1686 in Babstadt, Baden, Germany. Middle name also spelled LEVENIUS/LOFENIUS/Confenius. Baden is in the Palatinate section of Germany. Occupation: Farrier (blacksmity). Church Affiliation: Lutheran

He was married to Katherina HIRTZEL (daughter of Hans Heinrich HIRTZEL and Maria Steiner) on 23 Jan 1672 in Reihen, Palatinate, Germany. Katherina HIRTZEL

“Johann Lofenius Zirckel a Lutheren citizen and smith (farrier), settled in Kirchardt, then in Babstadt, where he died. He had emigrated after the Thirty Years War 1618-48 into this depopulated county in the Territory of the Lutheran Knights of the Kraichgau in the Palatinate. His wife Catherine Hirtzel was born in Switzerland, in the village Aublikon (parish Pfeffikon), the daughter of Hans Heinrich Hirtzel and his wife Maria Steiner. After the Great Thirty Years War, the Hirtzels also settled in Reihen where their relative, Pastor Clemens Hirtzel, a Calvinist clergyman from Winterthur in Switzerland, was minister from 1651 to 1670.