Hickengrund, Germany

The Hickengrund is made up of four villages Niederdresselndorf, Oberdresselndorf, Lützeln, and Holzhausen. Today these villages are in the municipality of Burbach in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

Until I can sort out the copyright issues or develop the information independently of the copyright websites, I am providing links to pertinent websites with information about this area in Germany.

Detlev Kretzer has an excellent website www.hickengrund.de written in German about this area. His informative website contains information on the history, genealogy and dialect of the area.

The German Wikipedia also has a short article about the area: Hickengrund.

This area provided immigrants to the British colonies in North America. Some of whom are listed in the following books:

Gerber, Adolf. The Emigration from Nassau-Dillenburg to America in the Eighteenth Century : The Conduct of the Governments Towards It and The Ensuing Fates Of The Emigrants. Translated by Lissy L. Weirich. Privately published, 1984.

Goebel, Julius. Briefe Deutscher Auswanderer aus dem Jahre 1709. Illinois: Nachdruck aus dem Jahrbuch der Deutsch-amerikanischen Historischen Gesellschaft von Illinois, 1912.