They have come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who seek to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen.
Among them is a family who will survive and endure, making their mark in Texas, their new land. Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda - passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater. There are the twin boys, Friedrich and Johann, who will take different paths, but never forget they are brothers.
Adelsverein: the Gathering--It's about love and loss, joy and grief... and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.
]]>They have come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who seek to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen.
Among them is a family who will survive and endure, making their mark in Texas, their new land. Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda - passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater. There are the twin boys, Friedrich and Johann, who will take different paths, but never forget they are brothers.
Adelsverein: the Gathering--It's about love and loss, joy and grief... and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.
]]>They have come from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who seek to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen.
Among them is a family who will survive and endure, making their mark in Texas, their new land. Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda - passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel wants nothing more than to be a good wife to her husband Hansi, a stolid and practical farmer called by circumstances to be something greater. There are the twin boys, Friedrich and Johann, who will take different paths, but never forget they are brothers.
Adelsverein: the Gathering--It's about love and loss, joy and grief... and the sometimes wrenching process of becoming American.
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