Maps  showing where Torza / Batschka, Ungarn, (Savino Seslo) in Austria-Hungary before 1918

Last Updated: Last Updated:  9 April 2007

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Torschau (Torza) (known , now, as Savino Selo ) / Batschka, Ungarn, Austria-Hungary - 1794

NOTE from Philip Townshen 2/19/07:  Savino Selo is, now, in Slovenia.  He said to see:  http://en.wkipedia.or/wiki/Savino_Selo

Not the offical coat-of-arms of Torschau

Key:  One inch equals about 4 miles.

Torza, now known as Savino Selo, a Batschka village, was part of the Ungarn area in Austria-Hungary when the Pfaff family migrated in 1794 from Moersfeld, Kircheim-Bolanden, Palatinate [Germany]  Since that time, the area became part of Yugoslavia and, now, Slovenia.  As you can see it's near Belgrade. The Danube River flows through Belgrade, therefore,  the people who traveled to Russia on this waterway,  traveled through this old eastern European  city. North of here is Temeschburg where the Huberts settled earlier in Periam (Perajamosch) which is north of Timisoara in the map just below.....

Many Germans who migrated to this area arrived on wooden boats, "Ulmer Schachtels", which was a profitable way of carrying wood eastward to places where wood was in demand in the east.

Torza [Torschau, Savino Selo], Ungarn / Austria-Hungary [Yugoslavia] Migration List 1794 to 1806

The following families migrated from Torza, Hungary to Russia from 1794 to 1804.  The list was taken from "Torzsa und seine Ansiedlung" by Gustav Adolf Famler (1884) and provided to us by Joy R. Fisher [jfisher@ucla.ed],  16 June 1995 : Peter Rebmann Kasper Will Niklaus Steinmetz Reinhard Klein Martin Kner Johann Krutzner Amad Nuber Martin Berg Peter Weitz Johann Petri Jakob Frey Friedrich Gerhardt Jakob Tasse Adam Ries Simeon Kuhn Jakob Bitlingmeyer Peter Brausch Georg Korell Adam Spree Lenhard Kesslinger Jakob Merz Konrad Kirschner Jakob Ditrich Chrstian Jung Niklas Jantassin

The second wave of people who migrated from "Torzsa" was in 1805 to 1807 in which our Pfaff and Orschit families are  listed: Wilhelm Cristmann [sic, ? Christmann] Daniel Christmann Valentin Christmann Daniel Schmoll Joh. Philipp Schell Johann Entzl [Entzi?] Jakob Heimbuch Georg Krkakus Michael Pfaff Georg Laubenstein Andreas Hederle Konrad Bechtel G. Jakob Philippi Philipp Philippi Johann Orschit Friedrich Schlect Heinrich Kast Andreas Wingaertner Jakob Bischoff Paul Bischoff Heinrich Kraus Niklaus Harich Johann Schneider Johann Wilhelm Philipp Nitan Peter Reitz Georg Kersch Jakob Mayer Geaorg Bauer Balthasar Kast Barthel Ull Jakob Ull Daniel Glasser Daniel Bischoff Andreas Ziegler Johann Weissgaerber Peter Becker Peter Kabel Anna Maria Laubenstein Anna Klausin Christina Weber Margaretha Schlatin August Wakerlin Niklaus Frischin Jakob Stolzin Peter Metzgerin

Various spellings: Torschau,Torza, Toerschau, Terschau, Dorschau, Derschau (known , now, as Savino Selo ).

Note:Family of Derschau is found in the von der Trenck Section.

Website: Peter Haas is the new village coorindator of Torschau at the Donauschwaben Villages' Helping Hand Project (DVHH): http://www.milleker.org/dvhh

List of Germans living in Torschau is found on Brigtte Wingels web site: http://www.brigitte-wingels.com/Torschau.html . Here is an example of some of the names plucked from the list of just a few of the families  who may have had families migr. to Russia at some time.....: Appel / Apfel, Filip- fr. Kriegsfeld / Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz Bechthold, Karl - fr. Saarbruecken-Stadt Beck, Friedrich -  fr. Leimen / Heidelberg/ Baden Heil, Filip - fr Lauterecken / Kusel, Pfalz Hess, Adam -fr. Weichweiler / Kusel, Pfalz Hess, Heinr. - fr Schornsheim / Oppenheim, Rheinhessen Lenz, Joh. Jakob - fr Freilaubersheim/ Rheinhessen Meyer, Friedrich - fr Eybach/ Geislingen, Wuerttemberg Pfaff, Filip -fr Moersfeld/ Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz Pfaff, Johann - fr. Eisenbach / Kusel, Pfalz Pfaff, Peter - fr Moersfeld / Kirchheimbolanden, Pfalz Pfaff, Theobald - fr. Eisenbach / Kusel, Pfalz Roedel, Jacob - fr [no listing] Weber, Adam - fr. Foeckelberg/ Kusel, Pfalz Weber, Jakob - fr. Foeckelberg/ Kusel, Pfalz Wolf, Filip - fr Gangloff / Kusel, Pfalz Wolf, Jakob  - fr Kriegsfeld / Kirchheimbolanded, Pfalz many others from "A" to "Zzzz" which have not been mentioned here.....

When looking through my Pfaff web site today, I noticed in one of the letters the following and thought I should place this data on this page: George Jakob Koschel b 03 Dec 1796, Torschau, Hungary..died 12 April 1881 in Neu Freudental m Anna Maria Agnesia Weber, dau of Johannes and Magdalena Weber. She was b 03 Jan 1799 in Klein Schenheim, Wu and d 01 Feb 1856 in Neu Freudental. Children of George Koschel and Anna : Katherina Koschel b circa 1824 in Freudental, died 22 March 1879 in Lesterville, SD m Gottlieb Christian Frank 18 Sept 1844 in Johannesthal, SR, b circa 1820 in Waterloo, SR, died 20 December 1878 in Yankton, SD Juliana Koschel b 1822 in Freudental, SR. m (1) Johann Philip Pfaff 16 November 1838 in Freudental; he died 05 August 1848. She married (2) Conrad Feiock 01 Feb 1851. George Michael Koschel b 1824 in Klein-Freudental Anna Maria Koschel b 2 Nov 1834 in Neu Freudental Johann Jacob b 17 Jul 1834 in Neu Freudental (born to A Georg Jacob Koschel and Friedricka Weber who was approx 16...I believe this was Anna Maria's sister) See the letter

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