(taken from Germanna.org)
Germanna gallery
This drawing shows the old village of about 1713, the time that three families, the Rectors, Otterbachs, and Fischbachs, left for Virginia. If you move down from the center at the top (approximately) through the first, smaller building, you will come to the Rector home, which no longer stands. This location is now used for a farm implement shed. The Chapel school is near the center, and its outline can be recognized by reference to the photo of it below.
This is the most famous building in Trupbach, the Chapel School, which was built in the middle of the eighteenth century. It is now used as a village museum. In the early eighteenth century, when our people left, there were about 25 houses in the village.
This house, known as the "Wisse" haus (house), was built about 1650. In 1707, Johannes Wisse lived there, but he left no heirs. Next, John Henry Schneider, who married Maria Cath. Otterbach and lived there in 1750. Their daughter, Elisabeth, married John Eberhard Gudelius, and they lived there in 1780. The list of inhabitants is known down to the present. In 1950, the house was subdivided and it now consists of two parts.
This home is typical of the early homes. The ground floor was for the animals. The second floor was for the people. The third floor was for hay. This cozy arrangement was intended to be just that, cozy and warm for all creatures. Trupbach was an agricultural village. Many of the homes have been converted to other arrangements now.
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