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Finding a street
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LindaAngela | Report | 11 Jan 2015 22:22 |
I had english/german relatives who lived in Germany during the 40's, where can I find information on the street they lived in, as it doesn't appear to exist anymore. The address I have is Knicknayer Strasse Velbert. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would be most grateful. |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 11 Jan 2015 23:25 |
Velbert is a big town in the district of Mettmann, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The city is renowned worldwide for the production of locks and fittings. |
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Rambling | Report | 11 Jan 2015 23:33 |
There are plenty of recent maps, so you might find an old one on line, or have to try and source one via a library perhaps. But though my knowledge of German is pretty sketchy, Knicknayer does not come up on google at all and I would have expected it to, in some capacity at least? |
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Rambling | Report | 11 Jan 2015 23:42 |
If you can find someone who speaks German ( though it's possible the staff can speak English as well) you could try and write to or email the local library |
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LindaAngela | Report | 17 Jan 2015 23:15 |
Thankyou Rose, I appreciate your thoughts, and yes writing to the library sounds a very good idea. |
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LindaAngela | Report | 17 Jan 2015 23:31 |
I actually looked again on Google, and I found it had a name change in the 1980's as I thought, it is now Gunther Wiesenborn Strasse , looked on Google Earth and I can only imagine, that because of the lack of buildings in that area, they have been knocked down. |
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LindaAngela | Report | 17 Jan 2015 23:38 |
It was discovered that the original name of the road was named after someone who was a member of the NSDAP, commonly known as the Nazi party, so that's why it was changed. |