Matthias Nicolaus Carls

Baptism 1804 : https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N8JP-WLK

Marriage 1830 : https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:JHD2-635

Monyoye / Monjoie / Monschau

The city originated around 1195 and takes its name from the castle situated on a mountain spur above the Rur River. It is mentioned for the first time in 1198 as Mons Ioci and then in 1217 as Munioie and as Monjoje in 1226. The name is a typical castle name from the setting of the Crusades. Walram of Limburg-Monschau, the first lord of the castle and subsequently the Duke of Castle Lim, is known as a crusader in the Holy Land in 1197.
Monjoye dominated the written form during the Late Middle Ages and in the Early Modern Times. Around 1800, the Montjoie form arose during the French rule in the Rhineland. By official decree, the name was “Germanized” into Monschau in autumn of 1918 as the result of the lost First World War and the ensuing Francophobia.
A formal bestowal of authorisation as a town does not exist, but there have been multiple confirmations of the customary rights as a town since 1476.
The town of Monschau had gained its municipal structure of today through the integration of the independent municipalities, Höfen, Imgenbroich, Kalterherberg, Konzen, Mützenich und Rohren on January 1, 1972.

City of the cloth makers

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The location far-removed from thoroughfares and the chaos of war allowed for a widely undisturbed development of an infrastructure for high-quality woollen cloth production in the 17th century. Contrary to a much-repeated depiction, these were not Aachen religious refugees, but rather local families (Schmitz in Monschau, Offermann in Imgenbroich) that had expedited the new trade. Spanish merino wool was already being processed in the first decades of the 18th century. Nevertheless, the location had to struggle with serious problems in selling its wool as the result of the lacking on-site marketplace and the privileges of the older production sites in the Duchy of Jülich.
The breakthrough to a European-wide prestige for the fine cloth production had succeeded through the fact that Johann Heinrich Scheibler (1705-65) overcame the territorial impediments of the house-to-house peddling through his entrance into the wholesale trading sites as a leading enterpriser and turned the Monschau cloth into branded goods. The heyday of this fine cloth production was in the second half of the 18th century. This era of cloth manufacture is marked by the fact that it gradually progressed from the initially practised workshop system into a concentration of all working stages in a factory building. The structural fabric of the city centre from the time of the cloth makers in the 17th and 18th centuries has been fundamentally preserved and includes the splendid town houses such as the “Red House” and the “Haus Troistorff” that were also manufacturing facilities at the same time as well as the larger production sites in the old town centre.
The invasion of French revolutionary troops in 1794 had initially brought about a deep slump as the result of confiscations and the loss of old sales markets, but the modernisation and mechanisation by the surviving operations had accelerated from around 1800 onward. The successful consolidation was grievously disturbed by the subsequent connection with Prussia. Despite the occasional upturns in the 19th century, the cloth manufacturing was no longer able to return to the success of the 18th century. Enterprisers migrated to East Europe (Lodz, Brünn) or turned to other textile sectors (spinning mills, synthetic wool fabrics and synthetic silks, among others).
From the middle of the 19th century, the location of Monschau lost its connection with industrial development. The opening of the Vennbahn of Aachen (1885) could not stop the trend. The population figures continually decreased in the 19th century; from 3020 inhabitants in 1816 to 1865 in 1905. The last cloth factory closed in 1908 and the remaining textile trade ground to a halt in the 1960s.

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Kalterherberg (Q316951)  --human settlement in Monschau, Germany

Kalterherberg (Up Platt: Kole Harbarg) is en süüdwestlichen Stadtdeel vun Monschau in den Kreis Aken nich wiet af vun de Grenz na Belgien. An’t Enn vun dat Johr 2004 leven dor 2.537 Inwahners. Bit 1972 weer Kalterherberg sülvstännig, denn keem dat nah Monschau. Midderwielen is dat de gröttste Stadtdeel vun düsse Stadt.

De Naam seggt allerhand över den Oort. He liggt direktemang an dat Hoge Venn un kriggt as Eersten dat kole un slechte Weer af. Gegen den Wind hefft de Lüde dor huushooch Bökenhecken plant, just so as annerwegens in dat Monschauer Heckenland ok.

In en Urkunn ut dat Johr 1391 is dat eerste Mol de Naam „Kalde Herberge“ to lesen. In dat Johr 1550 geev dat al en Kapell, de ünner den Schutz vun den Hilligen Lambertus stünn. Hüdigendags fallt de grode Kark mit twee Toorns in den Oort up. De Ökelnaam vun düsse Kark is de „Eifeldom“. 1898 güng dat mit den Boo los un 1901 (1904?) is de denn fardig ween. Dormols hett de Kark 112.600 Rieksmark köst.

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