Kohlhof (Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany) Kohlhof is located between
Speyer and Ludwigshafen in the Palatinate, Germany. It has
existed since the middle of the 17th century, and belonged to
the electoral family. It was originally called Kohlloch because
it made charcoal from the wood of the forests. Mennonites leased
it as hereditary lessees after 1713. Photo by Immanuel Giel
Source: Wikipedia Commons In that year Ulrich Schneider took it
over, and on 12 February 1716 he gave one half of it over to
Jakob Blickensdörfer and the other half to Joseph Burgholder,
the son-in-law of Hans Gochnauer. The Mennonite register in the
national archives at Karlsruhe lists five names in 1717: Ulrich
Schneider, Hans and Jakob Gochnauer, Matth. Stauffer, and Hans
Jakob Blickensdörfer. The register of 1768 names two families:
Georg Wagner and a Blickensdörfer widow. Descendants of these
families (as of the 1950s) were still living on the Kohlhof,
though the Wagners were no longer Mennonites. In 1806 it became
the property of the inha