The Zahn family

Our family chronicle begins with Nikolaus Zahn (ca. 1580 - ca. 1659), a master furrier and senator in Greußen (Thuringia). For several generations the small town of Wasserthaleben was the family center of the Zahns, who worked here for four generations as pastors and from about 1820 began to move out to different countries and even to distant continents. Wasserthaleben has not disappeared from the family memory until today.

• Wasserthaleben in Thuringia - The home of the Zahn family (Hans Zahn, 2012)

• The Four Pastors Tooth at St. John's Church in Wasserthaleben 1710 - 1857 (Sabine Zahn, 2010)

• Genealogy III Zahn family (Hans Zahn, Sabine Zahn 2013)

• The French War (1806 -1811) from "My Youth" (Adolf Zahn, 1882)

Unser Familienwappen geht zurück auf Johann Michael Zahn (1671 – 1745). Zunächst war Jesus am Kreuz auf dem Schild zu sehen. Sein Enkel, Franz Ludwig Zahn (1798 – 1890) gab dem Wappen seine heutige Form und fügte drei Sterne für seinen Familienzweig hinzu. 

• The coat of arms of the Zahn family  (Hans Zahn, 2007)

• Sermon on the occasion of the festive divine service in St. John's Church to Wasserthaleben on 26.09.2010 (Pastor Christine Heckert)

• Bible passages about our family crest

Each and everyone in our family is a special person and deserves to be entered in this section - so it is a future project and still needs a lot of support. We start in the past with our great-great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents, the ancestors of our family.

Franz Ludwig Zahn (1798 – 1890)

• Franz Ludwig Zahn (Hans Zahn, 2017)

• Franz Ludwig Zahn - Timetable (Sabine Zahn, 2017)

• Franz Ludwig Zahn - Literature (Sabine Zahn, 2017)

• The Zahn family cemetery in Moers-Vinn (Hans Zahn 2007)

• The Martinstift (Hans Zahn, Sabine Zahn, 2013)

• Memorial plaque Martinstift (donated by the Zahn Family Association)

• Revival (lecture Wilhelm Matejka, 2014))

Anna Zahn née Schlatter (1800-1853)

• Anna Zahn née Schlatter (Hans Zahn, 2017)

• Anna Zahn, manuscript (Martin Dorfmüller, 1962)

Anna Schlatter-Bernet (1773 – 1826)

• Anna Schlatter-Bernet - a cosmopolitan woman between Pietism, Enlightenment and Romanticism (Marianne Jehle, 2014)

• Anna Schlatter-Bernet, aus: Vier Generationen der St. Gallener Familie Schlatter (Walter Frei, 2012)

• The French Revolution in St. Gallen (Walter Frei, 2012)

Johannes Zahn (1828 – 1905)

• Johannes Zahn, stations in life (Adolfinum, 1978)

• Some of the life and work of the grammar school principal Dr. Johannes Zahn from Moers (Hans Zahn, 1928)

• School Yesterday - School Today (Sabine Zahn, 2012)

• Johannes Zahn in the family circle (Anna Wegener, 1928)

• The gravesite of Johannes Zahn in the Zahn family cemetery

Laura Zahn, geb. Wintgens (1839 – 1916)

• Laura Zahn née Wintgens, stations in life (Sabine Zahn, 2017)

• On the occasion of the 100th birthday of our dear mother Laura Zahn née Wintgens on 17.6. 1939 written by her children

Friedrich Wintgens (1770 – 1856)

• Friedrich Wintgens (P. Beilecke, 1952)

• Friedrich Wintgens - The castle and the park. Factory owner and patron for the city of Moers (Werner Heinze, 1883)

There exist quite a number of genealogical charts for individual branches of the Zahn family, compiled by different generations. We start with a series of illustrated genealogy charts that Prof. Ralf Dornhaus and Ellen Dornhaus, née Zahn have already kept for their branch of the family up to the present.

The pastors Zahn in Wasserthaleben and their descendants

• The pastors Zahn in Wasserthaleben and their descendants

Franz Ludwig Zahn ( 1798 – 1890)

• Franz Ludwig Zahn (1798 – 1890)
  Eltern, Söhne

• Franz Ludwig Zahn (1798 – 1890)
  Geschwister und Nachkommen

• Carl Zahn ( 1866 - 1942) and Fanny Zahn née Fabricius (1869 - 1944), Pongs & Zahn Viersen

Adolf Zahn (1795 – 1866)

• Adolf Zahn (1795 – 1866) und Kleophea Zahn geb. Schlatter (1797 – 1860),
  Vorfahren

Gustav Adolf Zahn (1829 – 1890)

• Gustav Adolf Zahn (1829 – 1890)
  und seine Kinder

• Gustav Adolf Zahn (1829 – 1890)
  und seine Nachkommen

Johannes  Zahn (1828 – 1905)

• Johannes Zahn (1828 – 1905) und Laura Zahn geb. Wintgens (1839 – 1906)
  Eltern, Großeltern

Laura Zahn geb. Wintgens (1839 – 1916)

• Friedrich Wintgens (1770 – 1856)
  und seine Vorfahren

• Friedrich Wintgens
  und seine Nachkommen

Hans Zahn (1875 – 1963)

• Hans Zahn (1875 – 1963) und Käthe Zahn geb. von Cossel (1881 – 1964)
  und ihre Nachkommen

Käthe Zahn geb. von Cossel (1881 – 1964)

von Cossel

• Käthe Zahn, geb. von Cossel (1881 – 1964)
  und ihre Vorfahren I – III

• Gut Jersbek

• Imperial knight Paschen von Cossel ( 1714 - 1806) I - I

Mackeprang

• Helene von Cossel née Mackeprang (1853 - 1894), mother of Käthe Zahn

• Carsten Mackeprang (1811 - 1879) and Clara Mackeprang née Mackeprang (1818 - 1893)

• Staberhof Manor on Fehmarn, painting by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

• St. Petri in Landkirchen, Fehmarn