Albums: Photographs from 2002 Trip: Gerber Familie ab Giebel-Langnau

Gerber Family of Langnau
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These photographs are from a trip my wife and I took in May of 2002 to Switzerland. This was our first introduction to the Gerber homeland.

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1		Barn Door On Giebel. Barn door on the north side of Vorder Giebel. Hay can be brought in from the field and dropped down to the cows on the floor below.
2		Giebel from Side Side Photograph of Giebel. Fritz Gerber is talking with his niece and her sons.
3		Group Photograph in front of Giebel Photograph of Greta Gerber (Fritz's wife), Marianne Gerber, Fritz Gerber, Walter Baumgartner, and Esther Gerber Baumgartner (Fritz's sister)
4		Photograph of Tim and Katherine Gerber Photograph of Tim (author of this website) and Katherine Gerber in front of Vorder Giebel.
5		Spiecher This is a special type of storage barn traditionally located next to the farm house. This barn shows a painted inscription from Michael Gerber.
6		Spiecher Door Here is the door of the Spiecher showing the inscription and date the barn was built.
7		Lock on inside of the Spiecher This old lock was mounted on the Spiecher door, and there is a secret way of unlocking it. There appears to be a date of 1640 on it with the initials H and R.
8		View of Alps from Giebel View from Giebel of the beautiful Alps. You can seen the silhouette of the Spiecher here.
9		Stoeckli Photograph This photograph is of the Stoeckli, which is a retirement home for the previous occupant of the main house. Once the house is handed down to the youngest male child, the parents move into the Stoeckli. The early "Gemeinschaft Evangelisch Taufgesinnter" or "Fröhlichianer" church met here. In the United States, the church is known as the…
10		Photograph of Marianne and Greta Gerber Photograph of Marianne of Kuessnacht and Greta Gerber.
11		Landscape Photograph from Giebel Photograph of Alps from Giebel
12		View looking down at Giebel View looking down at Giebel.
13		View of Giebel View of the Alps from an area just above Giebel
14		View of Langnau View of Langnau from another Gerber house (Giebelkellen) just above Vorder Giebel.
15		Giebelkellen House This is another Gerber house called Giebelkellen. It is an early childhood home of Christian Gerber, father of Ernst Gerber. Inside the home is an old stove with an inscription on it of Niklaus Gerber and Barbara Aeschlimann. There was an elderly woman living here with her son. The woman was peeling potatoes to feed to their cattle to ease…
16		Giebelkellen Stove Here is the stove located in Giebelkellen with an inscription from 1857.
17		Giebelkellen Stove Here is the stove located in Giebelkellen with an inscription from 1857.
18		Giebelkellen Stove Here is the stove located in Giebelkellen with an inscription from 1857.
19		Niklaus Gerber Inscription This inscription was found in the barn of another Gerber house, and it is dated 1806.
20		Baumgarten House This is the earliest known Gerber house located in the valley of Gohlgraben, north of Vorder Giebel house. The occupants welcomed us warmly and brought out old documents for us to view.
21		Baumgarten Spiecher Here is a typical speicher outside of the Baumgarten house.
22		Baumgarten Documents Here are documents brought out to us by the Gerbers living at Baumgarten.
23		Baumgarten Documents Here again are more documents from Baumgarten along with a book that tells the history of various Gerber houses.
24		Group conversation at Baumgarten. At this table, you will find occupants of Baumgarten as well as our group. You can see how friendly they were to our group who showed up unexpectedly and were complete strangers. This was the way we were received everywhere we went.