sentences:  From Eßweiler, several branches of the family Gilcher (the current mayor’s surname), among others, emigrated to Brazil and the United States.It was in the 1830s that the "Westpfälzer Wandermusikantentum", a musical movement that saw local "Musikanten" – literally “minstrels” – travel all over the world, began.Its heyday fell between 1850 and the First World War.