Day 11: Hamburg To Uetersen

We finally arrived to Uetersen, and from our hotel window is this idyllic view. This is the birthplace of Doris Hahn, my great great grandmother.

This was home to Leyla's great great great grandfather, Peter W Nissan, while he learned saddle making from his bother-in-law Albert Lutheri Voss. Peter Wilhelm left the trade of his father Niss Nissen in spice trade/sailmaking, and then went to be the saddlemaker for the Tsar along with other siblings in St Petersburg.

What an interesting family that spread out over the world.

However, of Doris' siblings we know three brothers stayed near home, while others went off to Russia, America, Australia, and India. While in Hamburg, we went to visit the area where Christian Voss was the director of a girl's school. It seemed that the city would be overwhelming to a small town woman.

Getting tired from our constant puruit of history, the city tired Leyla and me out too. So we headed for serene Petersen. Tomorrow on our way back to Berlin we will stop by and visit the immigration museum in Hamburg.

the lemon seller.

We could not find the house so clearly on Kuehlenstrasse. We will look again tomorrow and also the Kloster where there once had been a family reunion