How cute are these kids on the bench eating ice cream?
And this sign on the right - warning drivers, "Bitte Nicht So Schnell"...
("please not so fast!")
This cuteness brought to you by Austria.
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About Me
- My Brand New Swiss Life
- Zurich, Switzerland
- After school, most of my female friends moved to New York to have the single-girl-making-her-dreams-come-true-in-the-Big-City experience. Think Devil Wears Prada (working in the magazine or book publishing business). Me...Boston. Now Zurich. It's in Switzerland.
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I came across your blog by googling "Swiss-German".
Don't know if you can help me, but here goes:
I have traced my ancestors from the Pfalz of Germany to Basel. The birthplace listed in the German churchbook says
Nicolaus Buser [born by 1655]
zu Hausen, 3 std obig Basel
I think it means the last known address before coming to Germany was the city of Basel.
But I can't figure out "obig".
In regular German it means over, above, in a higher place, foregoing. I'm thinking it might mean he was from the city of Basel in the state of Basel -(which is the higher-level state's name, too?
I haven't a clue what the "3" means.
Do you have any idea of who could decipher this for me?
Thanks.
I know that Basel is loaded with people bearing my family last name - Buser.
Switzerland sounds like a very cool place to live.
Julia
Illinois
Nooo idea!! Sorry Julia!!
Thanks anyway.
I got a response from a helpful Swiss citizen in Basel with the same family name who clued me in. The town is Hausen im Wiesental over in Baden, Germany - it has a textile-transportation canal to Basel.
"3 std obig Basel" means "3 hours (by horse) North of Basel".
Very, very old directions from the 1600s. I was lucky to find anybody who knew what the heck it meant.
Nice blog.
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