Ursinus College Digital Commons @ Ursinus College Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection Summer 1979 Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 4 C. Lee Hopple Albert T. Gamon William U. Helfferich Ursinus College Ludwig Schandein Willoughby W. Moyer See next page for additional authors Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag Part of the American Art and Architecture Commons, American Material Culture Commons, Christian Denominations and Sects Commons, Cultural History Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Fiber, Textile, and Weaving Arts Commons, Folklore Commons, Genealogy Commons, German Language and Literature Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, History of Religion Commons, Linguistics Commons, and the Social and Cultural Anthropology Commons Click here to let us know how access to this document benefits oy u. Recommended Citation Hopple, C. Lee; Gamon, Albert T.; Helfferich, William U.; Schandein, Ludwig; Moyer, Willoughby W.; and Barrick, Mac E., "Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 28, No. 4" (1979). Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine. 84. https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/84 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Pennsylvania Folklife Society Collection at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Ursinus College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Authors C. Lee Hopple, Albert T. Gamon, William U. Helfferich, Ludwig Schandein, Willoughby W. Moyer, and Mac E. Barrick This book is available at Digital Commons @ Ursinus College: https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/pafolklifemag/84 ~uro..,etln Origin~ of tlJe ~enn~\Jl\Jtlnitl ~utc~ The Reverend WILLIAM U. HELFFERICH, D.D., LUDWIG SCHANDEIN (1813-1893) was a poet and (1873-1933), was great-grandson of Johann Heinrich provincial patriot in the Western Palatinate of South­ Helfferich and fourth generation of pastors in America western Germany. His major work, Gedichte in West­ in that direct line. Educated in basics at home, he richer Mundart (Poems in the Western Palatinate Dialect) took his A.B. at Ursinus College in 1893 and B.D. from appeared in 1854; his Haus und Wohnung (House and Ursinus Theological Seminary in 1896. He served Dwelling) was one of the first published Folk Cultural Christ Reformed Church, Bath, PA, from 1898 until appraisals of the Rhenish Palatinate in 1867. At age his death on 13 October, 1933 . During his lifetime he eighty he died, just after the final revision of his was banker, storekeeper, newspaper editor, artist, musi­ Poems appeared. cian, carpenter, clerk and minister and for a decade, Borough Clerk in Bath. DR. LEE C. HOPPLE is Professor of Geography and Director of Institutional Planning at Bloomsburg State College. He received the B.S. degree from Kutztown State College, M.S. and Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University with added postgraduate work at the University of Washington. He has published several articles in geographical journals and two items on spatial development and organization in Pennsylvania Folklife. DR. MAC E. BARRICK is a lifelong resident of Cum­ berland County who teaches Spanish and folklore at Shippensburg State College. He is currently serving as Chairman for Pennsylvania for Wayland Hand's Dic­ tionary of American Folk Beliefs and Superstitions. He is a frequent contributor to Pennsylvania Folklife. WILLOUGHBY W. MOYER, whose maternal grand­ father was Warren G. Bean, lives in Bean's old home­ stead in Creamery, PA. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania in Electrical Engineering, he finds BARRICK photography useful both in his work and in his historical and genealogical avocations. He reissued an 1861 issue of Der Neutralist of Skippack as an anni­ versary piece and published an illustrated booklet, Ancestors and Descendants of Warren G. Bean several years ago. ALBERT T. GAMON, former Marine Corps officer, has his degree in History from Tulane University and took specialized study in Economics at Temple Uni­ versity. He is currently Director-Administrator of the Peter Wentz Farmstead, a historical property of Mont­ gomery County, PA. Gamon holds membership in many organizations, including American Association of Museums, Early American Industries Association and the American Association of State and Local History as well as the National Trust. GAMON ED ITOR : SUMMER 1979, Vol. XXVIII, No.4 Will ia m T . Parsons ED ITOR IAL A DV ISO RY Co IMITT EE: Mac E. Barrick Monroe H . Fabian CONTENTS John B. Fra ntz Thomas E. Ga ll agher, Jr. Albert T . Gamon 2 European Religious and Spatial Origins of Mari e Graeff the Pennsylvania Plain Dutch Howell J . Hea ney LEE C. HOPPLE Heinrich Kelz Earl F. Robac ker Amje ommer 12 Story of a Stove FOL K FEST IVAL DIR ECTOR: ALBERT T . GAMON Mark R. Eaby, Jr. FOL K FE TIVAL P UBU RELAT IO Peg Zec her 17 Journal of Rev. Johann Heinrich Helfferich S B CRI PT IO S: WILLIAM U. HELFFERI CH Dori s E. Sti ef PENNSYLVANI A FOLKLl FE, Summer 1979, Vo l. 28 , No. 4, pub­ 25 Die Auswannerer - The Emigrants lished five time a year by Penn­ LU DWIG SCHANDEIN sy lvania Folklife Society, Inc., 3 Cemral Plaza, Lancaster, Penn sy l­ va nia, 17602 . $1. 50 for single copies ; 32 Abstract of Diary of Warren G. Bean, 1899 Autumn , Wi mer, Spring and Sum­ mer. $1.00 for Folk Fes ti va l Sup­ WILLOUGHBY W. MOYER pl ement. Yearly subsc ripti on $7.00. With Vo l. 29 (/979-80) PENNSYL­ VANIA FOLKLIFE will be redu ced 37 Cumberland County Deathlore to four issues per year. Subscrip­ MAC E. BA RRICK tion price will remain $7. 00. MSS A D PH OTOG RAPH S: The Ed itor will be glad to consider 47 Aides un Neies MSS and photographs ent with a Contributors view to publi cation. When unsuit­ (Inside/ront cover) able, and if accompanied by ret urn postage, care wi II be exercised to­ ward their return, although no re­ COVER: NEW DIRECTIONS sponsibi lity fo r their safety is as­ The Cathedral at Speyer on the Rhine. In 1529 sumed . Edi torial correspo ndence: the Protestant Estates spoke out at the Imperial Diet Dr. Willia m T . Pa rsons meeting there and many of the movements of Plain Box 92, Folk up and down the broad Rhine Valley passed Coll egevill e, Pa . 19426 close by . A gainst that background, the ultimate in Fo lk Festival correspo ndence: possibilities: Pennsylvania in A merica came to the College Bl vd . and Vine, attention of physically and spiritually exhausted Kutztown, Pennsylvani a 19530 religious refugees. The book is by Francis Daniel Folk Fes ti va l public relation : Pastorius, Plain leader who pioneered the German­ Peg Zecher, 26 E . Kn o wlton Rd ., town experiment in 1683. Me,di a, Pennsylvani a 19063 Subsc riptio n, busin ess correspondence : Box 1053 , La ncaster, Pennsylva ni a Layout: W ILLIAM MUNRO Contents copyri ghted . Entered as second c1as\ matter al Lancaste r. Pa . ,2\ )o( + ~~ ~ J # 'tg~ l~ ,tS ~} ' °i! 23" o'fS ~ ' .{~ ~ t> --IT ~ II bell Gfllciotett refer. C §I) ftelfe bir aH9icr \lor , : .' ... I • bie in Wmertca I burd) g i· .~, Iebc~ ctnglifd)Cl1 .\l6nig~ §arcli @5tuClrb!l bee cr< ften all~gerallbte @5d)iff'Clrten fefJt~ 1l1C1!ti erflln bCllc IProllinfJ IPcnn)!~ \laniam/tll1bberen ,3111l,lof)nerf r fo tIlO!)! an § !)riftcn / afe'naflldid)cn tlli!bcn 2cute l) / fCllllt occberfdt£lQ)e. fe~ 'en / mr g ill1f1lt~, ~ot'lli r @5ittm unbQ)ebt:alld)cll aud) o[[berfit(l all' "Kind Reader" Author Francis Daniel ge(egfen \5tabtClIlInb St'auffmoll:, Pastorius' invitation to learn about fd)0 iffen. Q)(Clubtllllrbigrt befd)ric, Pennsylvania, its inhabitants and its ben / fo Illo !)l \.)on beti 2anbe£l 001l' ." tleWflirti m3iUialll ~clln fdbrten/ English and German Societies under (\lti Cllld) burd) bie borinll ue\'loU, G6>-vernor William Penn. Illad)tigte 0e\llalttil)obere berm Bookstamp of the University Library at "1" ~ ,11n;;:.J~ t -1 1In(tt~ l ~ ftn glifd), IIno J)ocl)'\!:flltfq,enE:o, f~ t :1, ty" :".! ···. f~ti', ... ·iY ...' ' ierOten. Heidelberg on theflylea/. ,_I:'"..l:~:'.j' ~:I: 'l '1;~ )( 2 European Religious and Spatial Origins of the Pennsylvania Dutch By Lee C. Hopple SIXTEENTH CENTURY GERMANIC EUROPE The ancestors of the original Penn ylvania Plain Dutch sects (Amish, Mennonites, Dunkards, and Schwenk­ fe lders) were Protestants who migrated to Pennsyl­ vania from Europe. Protestantism, a religious move­ ment which began in the sixteenth century as an attempt ' to reform Roman Catholici m, was founded and de­ veloped by Germans in the Germanic regions of Europe. [ll]] GERMAN IC STATES (Figures I and 2 compare the German states and the non-German provinces which contained large German ~ NON - GERMANIC STATE·S CONTAINING populations in the sixteenth century with the political l:::::::j LARGE GERMAN POPULATIONS territories of modern Europe.) 2 Prc:;URE 1 SIXTEENTH CENTURY GERMANIC EUROPE IN RELATION TO THE MODERN EUROPEAN NATIONS From it inception, Prote tanti m wa almost immediately divided by three s harply contrasting , si­ multaneo u Iy occurring, theological y tems: Lutheran­ ism, I Calvinism, 2 and Anabaptism . j A minor Pro­ testa nt reli gio u m oveme nt,' Militant piritualis m, had a n important, but undesirable innuence upo n the three major m ovement , e pecially Anabaptism . Some Pro te tant religious enthu iasts' a nd spiritual­ i ~ t s · orga ni zed the theology of Militant Spiritua li s m ' (Table I) in Germanic Europe (Figure I) during the ~ ixteenth century. A lm ost imultaneou Iy a nd in the same region, other Pro te ta nt spiritualists a nd enthusiasts, proclaiming the Inne r Li ght Doctrine,' formulated a no n-militant theology o f M ysti cal Pieti sm" call ed a na­ bapti m 'o (Table I).