Anna Barbara Joder, the daughter of Jost Joder and Katherine Gerber, was baptized as a Catholic when she was eighteen, under the name Elisabeth Auguste, at the wish of the Princess Elector Elisabeth. She will be mentioned again in this chronicle as 'The Good Innkeeper of Oggersheim.' Anna Barbara Joder was born in Oggersheim in 1750 and must have been a very pretty girl.
The beautiful girl with the proper sounding French speech appears to have come to the attention of the Princess Elector, for she took her into her service after her parents died in 1768. At the wish of the Princess Elector, Anna Barbara renounced her Mennonite faith and was baptized as a Catholic by the pastor, Ferdinand Krieger, under the name Elisabeth Auguste. Her godmother was the Princess Elector. (This rebaptism is entered in the Church Register.)
Anna Barbara Joder, or as she was then known, Elisabeth Auguste Joder, married Johann Michael Wenz, the son of the mayor of the city. Seven children issued from this marriage. Five of them died in childhood. The husband Johann Michael Wenz died on 22 December 1783. Anna Barbara Joder entered her second marriage, with Bernhard Adam Herboth, son of the court cooper Georg Herboth from Kittelsheim, on 18 May 1784.
The Joder-Herboth couple then bought the house of the Marktplatz [Market Square] in which Anna Barbara had been born, which was however 'Haumuller'sches Erbpachtgut' [leasehold]. The building was auctioned by then mayor Lanjus and sold to court cooper Georg Herboth for 2240 Gulden. His son, Bernhard Adam Herboth, and his wife then opened an inn there, today called the 'Pfaelzer Hof.' The second husband of our 'Beautiful Innkeeper' died on 19 November 1790. From the second, Herboth, marriage there were two children, Thomas Herboth, born 21 August 1785, and Daniel Herboth, born 6 January 1791.
Anna Barbara Joder, the widow Wentz and widow Herboth, married a third time on 18 July 1793, to Josef Gaa from Mutterstadt. The children of this marriage are Margarete Gaa, born 2 July 1794; Balthasar Gaa, born 12 February 1796; and Lorenz Gaa, born22 February 1797. Anna Barbara is the ancestor of many people named Wenz and Herboth living in Oggersheim and those named Gaa in Mutterstadt.
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Anna Barbara Joder (she must have been a very beautiful woman), daughter of Yost Joder and Catherine Gerber Yoder, born August, l750, in Oggersheim, Germany, owned the Hotel Pfaltzer Hof. During the French Revolution (1792-1796) when the revolutionaries destroyed and burned the entire Pfalz (Palatinate). the French General Hoche came with his cavalry to Oggersheim on January 4,1794, and wanted to have the best quarters. Anna Barbara offered him her hotel as his headquarters (see picture), and he accepted. When the French soldiers plundered the small village of Oggersheim, Anna Barbara demanded of the French General that the stolen goods be brought to his headquarters. Later, when the soldiers left, she then returned the stolen goods to the villagers. The Hotel-Pfalzer Hof still stands today and is the best hotel in Oggersheim.
Anna Barbara (Elisabeth Auguste) Joder 08.1750-29.03.1828.
(1) Sie ist verheiratet mit Johann Michael Wenz.
Sie haben geheiratet
(2) Sie ist verheiratet mit Bernhard Adam Herboth.
Sie haben in der Kirche geheiratet am 18. Mai 1784 in Oggersheim, Rijnland-Palts, Duitsland, sie war 33 Jahre alt.Quelle 3
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(3) Sie ist verheiratet mit Josef Gaa.
Sie haben in der Kirche geheiratet am 18. Juli 1793 in Oggersheim, Rijnland-Palts, Duitsland ?, sie war 42 Jahre alt.Quelle 3
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